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Ed Webb

Art Games - 2 views

www.artificial.dk/...artgamesnetworks.htm

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shared by Ed Webb on 22 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Bryan Alexander on 22 Apr 10
     
    That's a good intro list. Might be handy to show people new to (thinking about) gaming.
Todd Bryant

US Budget game - 3 views

mashable.com/...microsoft-budget-game

Game Gov2.0

shared by Todd Bryant on 15 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Bryan Alexander on 16 Apr 10
     
    This is so neat! What a good teaching tool it would be for all kinds of politics.
Brett Boessen

What Will They Do? Transmedia Producers as Narrative Architects « Asmedia - 5 views

asmith50.wordpress.com/...ducers-as-narrative-architects

transmedia production liberalarts games

shared by Brett Boessen on 12 Apr 10 - Cached
  • The transmedia producer thus holds a different type of skill set, one that draws connections across media forms and one that involves conceptualizing, analyzing, and designing experiences at the macro-level. It is a person that does not just dive into the transmedia realm with a laundry list of media to explore, but actually has a deep understanding of the relationship between content, context, and culture.
  • transmedia producers must understand the unique storytelling potential behind each media platform. Certain stories lend themselves to particular media and vice versa. And as more narrative complexities threaten to impede comprehension , transmedia producers guard against blatant inconsistencies and contradictions. The narrative structure they design must be durable and organized, all while allowing room for future construction and additions.
  • the transmedia producer will have an incredible knack for activating communities and rewarding collective intelligence.
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  • Transmedia producers possess storytelling talent, yes, but they should also appreciate the complex relationship between story and game, author and audience, openness and closure, art and commodity. They are as well versed in any sector of the entertainment industry as they are in popular culture and fandom as a whole.
  • Brett Boessen on 12 Apr 10
     
    Is there a better description of the concrete skills a liberal arts education offers than the description of what transmedia producers do outlined here?
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  • Jason Mittell on 13 Apr 10
     
    Brett - Aaron's my former student, so I'll take your compliment once removed! He's a very smart fellow...
  • Brett Boessen on 13 Apr 10
     
    You know, that just makes complete sense now that you say that: it would be hard to imagine someone who was not the product of a solid liberal arts education making such a coherent and persuasive argument for its value in this way.
  • Bryan Alexander on 15 Apr 10
     
    Brett, the liberal arts connection really sings in passages like this: "The best architects draw on a range of influences, disciplines, and perspectives, taking into account history, theory, and criticism to develop innovating concepts. Likewise, I see a similar approach to the emerging field of transmedia studies..."
  • Brett Boessen on 15 Apr 10
     
    Agreed, Bryan. Media Studies has always been deeply interdisciplinary, and transmedia strikes me as pushing it even further in that direction (or perhaps pulling into itself the most interdisciplinary facets of MS).
Ed Webb

Fun Inc: Why Games Are the 21st Century's Most Serious Business by Tom Chatfield | Book... - 1 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...fun-inc-games-tom-chatfield

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shared by Ed Webb on 02 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Fun Inc.: Why Games are the 21st Century's Most Serious Business by Tom Chatfield 288pp, Virgin Books, £11.99
  • games might involve a lot of effort, but the payoff is that "effort is always rewarded".
  • elf-and-safety roleplayer World of Warcraft
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  • First, games are interesting in themselves, as constructions of space, logic and ideas (games are "a kind of playground for the mind"); second, they are interesting in their potential effect on other realms.
  • he possibility of using gamelike structures to produce empirical results in the social sciences
  • Chatfield's emphasis on games' fecund variety, on the other hand, will be valuable to non-specialists: he writes evocatively not just about Grand Theft Auto but about indie gems such as Passage, where your quest is meaningless and you die after five minutes. His comparison of videogames to installation art, meanwhile, is striking, and he even manages to make World of Warcraft sound interesting – though his awed description of a particular sword as being "the length of a full-grown orc" is rather lovable nonsense to someone who doesn't know how long orcs grow.
  • "the best games are a trigger for discussion, reading and writing – not an end to it"
  • Ed Webb on 02 Apr 10
     
    games might involve a lot of effort, but the payoff is that "effort is always rewarded".
Ed Webb

Appreciating Games Through Learning How To Make Them « OUseful.Info, the blog… - 1 views

ouseful.wordpress.com/...ough-learning-how-to-make-them

gaming games education OU

shared by Ed Webb on 26 Mar 10 - Cached
  • they have learned to see more in the games they play – and appreciate them far more – from studying how games are designed and developed, as well as marketed and sold.
Todd Bryant

OnLive game streaming - 2 views

use this as a solution to purchase games for lab? So far, US only, also need to check license.

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shared by Todd Bryant on 19 Mar 10 - No Cached
  • Todd Bryant on 19 Mar 10
     
    Could be great way to purchase/rent games for colleges and the lab. US only for right now and have to check the license
  • Bryan Alexander on 19 Mar 10
     
    How much throughput is required? I imagine bandwidth issues could crop up. And downloading - desktop management, installation control, etc.
Bryan Alexander

Video Games May Hinder Learning for Boys - 0 views

news.yahoo.com/...ogamesmayhinderlearningforboys

gaming education

shared by Bryan Alexander on 17 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Bryan Alexander on 17 Mar 10
     
    Interesting - the claim is based on time allocation, not deskilling.
Bryan Alexander

What happened to a Web search game - 0 views

www.raphkoster.com/...fate-of-a-social-games-company

browser search games

shared by Bryan Alexander on 12 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Bryan Alexander on 12 Mar 10
     
    Quite the saga of how PMOG appeared, developed, and ultimately flopped.
Ed Webb

There - There - 3 views

www.prod.there.com/...announcement

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shared by Ed Webb on 02 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Ed Webb on 02 Mar 10
     
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  • Ed Webb on 02 Mar 10
     
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Ed Webb

Random House Sets Up Videogame Team - WSJ.com - 2 views

online.wsj.com/...4089904575093562727862740.html

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shared by Ed Webb on 01 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Random House, eager to cash in on the lucrative videogame business, has set up an in-house team to create original stories for videogames and provide story advice for games in development. The book publisher, a unit of Germany's Bertelsmann AG, has started looking for a buyer for two original projects, one a fantasy adventure and the other a horror thriller. Each of the proposed games has a cast of characters, suggested stories, and an analysis of the type of gamer in mind.
  • Bryan Alexander on 02 Mar 10
     
    I wonder if Heavy Rain played a role in this.
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