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Anna Ho

What are the most treasured aspects of '90s adventure game design and how might these b... - 1 views

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    I came across this great question posted in Quora. One of the responders, Anne Halsall listed structured narratives, diverse hand- drawn animation, more difficult puzzles (less hints), and a single-player experience as hallmarks of 90s adventures games. The highlights of these adventure games are a stark contrast to the conditions, at least according to Gee, that make video games useful learning tools (e.g.,open-ended, immediate feedback, opportunities for socialization). This lead me to wonder, are the trends in contemporary game design driving engagement theory, or is the research driving game design?
Stephanie Fitzgerald

GAMBIT: Do It Yourself Game Design - 1 views

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    Hear MIT GAMBIT Lab experts talk about engagement in practical terms--and get some hands-on experience designing a board or video game. The three-hour workshops are part of the Cambridge Science Festival; this event takes place on April 28 and requires a $5 preregistration. Though I'm sure EMF will be touched on one way or another in all of the workshops, I thought the Serious Games for Social Change workshop might be of particular interest to you all: "In this workshop, best practice examples of serious games for social change will be played, discussed and analyzed. Furthermore ideas and sketches for proto-types will be developed and ways of realizing them will be discussed! The workshop gives the participants hands-on experiences and insights into the potential and limits of video games designed for social change. No pre-experiences are needed!"
Hongge Ren

Seth Priebatsch: The game layer on top of the world - 4 views

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    By now, we're used to letting Facebook and Twitter capture our social lives on the web -- building a "social layer" on top of the real world. In his talk, Seth Priebatsch looks at the next layer in progress: the "game layer," a pervasive net of behavior-steering game dynamics that will reshape education and commerce.
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    Thanks for sharing Hongge, I think many aspects of our lives are actually 'gamified'. The key seems to be making it as relevant and 'intrinsically integrated' so that it's seamless. Just a question: why is it 'game layer' over the real world and not 'real world' layer over the game?
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    Yes, indeed. The ideal is to intrinsically integrate. That's a good idea. Why not? In fact, maybe the alternate reality games qualify as "real world" layer over games because in such games, whatever happens in games impact the reality in certain ways. We could also design games to work the other way around, e.g. a diet game, where only when you do exercise in a gym in the real world, can you advance levels in the game.
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    Haha yes!! I recall a rowing machine which actually had a game in front of users so that they could compete with 'other rowers'. It was great and definitely made the workout more fun. I stopped though after a friend slipped his disc on the machine...
Jennifer Jocz

Seeking Philanthropy in MMOs and Online Gaming :: ZAM - 1 views

  • This Wednesday, McGonigal is launching Urgent Evoke, a new MMO-ARG (Alternate Reality Game) hybrid that she hopes will "help empower young people all over the world, and especially young people in Africa, to come up with creative solutions to our most urgent social problems," according to the official blog. The upcoming game offers players the chance to earn tangible rewards—scholarships and venture capital, for example—by performing real-world "quests" like volunteer work and career-building tasks. The concept might not seem that enticing to conventional gamers, but it's an early, real-world application of what McGonigal believes social gaming can help achieve.
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    Can video games help change the world?
Parisa Rouhani

Studies Reveal Why Kids Get Bullied and Rejected - Children's Health - FOXNews.com - 0 views

  • when children interact without the guidance of an authority figure — is when children experiment with the relationship styles they will have as adults,
  • parents should teach social skills with the same tone they use for teaching long division or proper hygiene
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    Children who cannot pick up context and facial cues from peers more likely to face social isolation. I wonder if social gaming environments using avatars as virtual selves help or hinder a child's ability to pick up such social cues.
Amanda Comperchio

5 Top Social Games and Why They're So Successful - 2 views

  • 68.7 million Americans will be playing social games by 2012
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    In 3 out of 5 of these games users work on quest-like activities - Wow is #5; Mafia Wars is #4 & Farmville is #1. The other 2 resemble typical socialization when playing a game in person - "bragging rights" and playing a board game. They all seem to touch on at least one of the 3 components from Ryan & Deci - relatedness, competence, and/or autonomy.
Stephanie Fitzgerald

Why gaming in the classroom may soon be the norm | Firstpost - 5 views

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    An interesting post on games in education that links to many examples for learning to code and mentions some other online educational environments that use gamification.
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    Hi Stephanie - This article also seems to highlight the extrinsic rewards of points and badges -- calling it "gamification." And given our last conversation in class, I wonder if all the points and badges will kill the intrinsic desire to play the games. Interestingly, there was a comment with a link to another article http://www.hideandseek.net/2010/10/06/cant-play-wont-play/ where the writer notes that some games just use "pointification," and that the best games are the ones that have rich cognitive, emotional and social aspects, with choice and skill... but not dependent on points/badges. In light of our "motivation" conversations, it will be interesting to watch how gaming in the classroom plays out if they are largely point/badges driven.
sandra jacobo

With $2M From Zynga Co-founder & More, Sokikom Wants To Use Social, MMO Gaming To Help ... - 0 views

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    This game does a great job of incorporating the social aspect of gaming. In addition, Sokikom uses classroom management techniques to reward postive behavior through "class cash." It would be interesting to look at what behaviors are actually transferred into the classroom.
Chris Dede

Bypassing the Textbook: Video Games Transform Social Studies Curriculcum | MindShift - 1 views

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    Social studies teacher using entertainment videogames
Xiaodi Chen

Study: Young Girls Are Happier When They Play Video Games With Dad | TechCrunch - 0 views

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    Games are social...
Chris Dede

Digital | Social media and video games in classrooms can yield valuable data for teachers - 2 views

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    Brookings report on games and learning
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    It's interesting that so many products have a teacher focused data output model but if the software isn't making recommendations, the student must wait for the teacher to analyze the data to make changes. I wonder when software will empower students to make their own curricular choices based on their data. I don't believe I've seen this.
Tracy Cordner

Top-Sellers? Bah, Let's Look At The 10 Most "Engaging" Games - littlebigplanet - Kotaku - 1 views

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    A look at the most 'talked about' games via social networking... Wii fit is right up there!
Soomi Hong

A virtual farm turns new ground for game developers | Reuters - 0 views

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    A virtual farm attracting up to 83 million aspiring farmers monthly has a video game developers scrambling to find ways to plough the booming popularity of games on the social networks.
Kim Frumin

Game Mechanics Support Social Currency? - 2 views

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    Two ways to read about Wharton professor Jonah Berger's take on how game mechanics can be engineered to promote social currency. Do you agree with Berger's perspective? Here's the link to the academic paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1836457
Chris Mosier

What Makes Social Games Social? - 0 views

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    Detailed examination of the axis that promote/discourage collaborative play (Synchronous vs. Asynchronous player interaction, Symmetrical vs. Asymmetrical relationship formation & Strong Tie vs. Loose Tie relationship evolution). The article provides examples of each axis in practice. Interesting application of SDT's "relatedness" in a gaming context.
kshapton

Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world | Video on TED.com - 0 views

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    3 billion hours of game play is not enough to solve the worlds most urgent problem?
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    Building off Meghan's post about Jane McGonigal visiting the Harvard Bookstore, here Jane talks about the potential of video games in positive social change in a TED talk.
Vanessa M

Games Debate: Can They Teach Morality? - 1 views

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    I was introduced to pro-social gaming last semester, and I found it to be quite an interesting topic. I think it can be done!
Diego Vallejos

GAMEUP | BrainPOP Games - 1 views

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    Play award winning free educational online games on science, math, social studies health and watch BrainPOP animated movies.
Soomi Hong

This is Your Brain on Video Games - 0 views

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    Gaming sharpens thinking, social skills, and perception.
Jennifer Jocz

How 'Avatar' may predict the future of virtual worlds | Geek Gestalt - CNET News - 0 views

  • After Second Life took the world by storm in 2005 and 2006, introducing many to a 3D environment in which they could create nearly anything they wanted, there hasn't been a major next step forward.
  • One could argue that virtual worlds have even taken a technological step backward, as most of the energy in the space these days is being put into building 2D Flash worlds for kids, or Facebook games played by the masses. It's big business, but hardly cutting edge.
  • The biggest danger at the moment for those who want to see rich, 3D virtual worlds take off right away is the massive popularity of social networks like Facebook and Twitter.
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    What i found most interesting about this article was the idea that the popularity of Facebook games has caused a "technological step backward"
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