A Virtual Worlds, Games and Education Tour: Four week course giving partipants a weekly tour of one topic in virtual worlds, games and emerging technology and their possible uses in education.
Add Facebook, Skype, Multi-IM and much more to your games!
Overwolf is a free software client which brings your life into your games. It seamlessly integrates social media tools like Facebook, Twitter, Skype or MSN Messenger in order to help you share game experiences and connect with your friends while playing.
An alternate reality game (ARG) is an interactive narrative that uses the real world as a platform and uses transmedia to deliver a story that may be altered by participants' ideas or actions. The form is defined by intense player involvement with a story that takes place in real-time and evolves according to participants' responses.
The practice of using graphics engines from video games arose from the animated software introductions of the 1980s demoscene, Disney Interactive Studios' 1992 video game Stunt Island, and 1990s recordings of gameplay in first-person shooter (FPS) video games.
EVE Online is a massive multiplayer online game that offers limitless potential to discover, explore and conquer an amazing science fiction universe where you pilot spaceships, fight, trade, and form corporations and alliances with other players.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
January 25, 2012, 8:00 am article - There's a lot about THATCamp that's inherently playful: as participants show up early to vote on sessions and let the structures evolve as needed, it turns the traditional conference model on its head.
I believe that we solved all of the puzzles and I think that I know which location matches up to which culprit and their password. Today at noon each of the culprits will stash a flashdrive at their hiding location but we'll have to know which password will unlock them.
A MOOC is a Massive Online Open Course designed based on the learning theory connectivism. Since 2008, there have been a series of these free open online courses offered. This course is informed by their design and implementation. VW MOOC - Virtual Worlds, Games and Education is divided into 2 parts.
At the UnSymposium - we spent some time and came up with a CFP for a Games and Simulation Fest for VWBPE! The crowd thought it was especially important to celebrate creativity and user created content whether it was in a very open system like Second Life or if it was developing additional quests for World of Warcraft.
This week, the topic of discussion is: Arathi Basin - Which strategies are most effective in this battleground for both rated and un-rated play? What tips, tricks and tactics have you discovered? What common mistakes have you witnessed? And More...