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Game art exhibition. Unveils June 6th

Radical design!

A digital journey though James Joyce's Ulysses

Looks like fun. Anyone interested in playing?

This is one of Mark Prensky's sites. Should be a good source for thoughtful links.

"Syria is a beautiful country- at least I think it is. I say "I think" because while I perceive it to be beautiful, I sometimes wonder if I mistake safety, security and normalcy for 'beauty'. In so many ways, Damascus is like Baghdad before the war- bustling streets, occasional traffic jams, markets seemingly always full of shoppers… And in so many ways it's different. The buildings are higher, the streets are generally narrower and there's a mountain, Qasiyoun, that looms in the distance."

Just practicing

"The secret of making a great game, Meier said, is to get inside the player's head. "

Includes a video of debate between Zynga and the press on the ethics of the marketing schemes.

Discusses how social games like Farmville make money.

"On the other hand, Smith said that any game developer trying to build a game that attracts audiences around the world would do well to concentrate on proper localization. Mistakes that have annoyed regional audiences, Smith said, have included one social game offering virtual goods timed for Christmas that didn't make sense to South Americans because they featured snow-oriented scenes. "

"Still, it may not matter whether developers consider social games to be bona fide games, Reynolds said. Rather, succeeding in the Facebook era may mean learning a lot more about social interactions than about game mechanics. "The magic is in the social interactions," Reynolds said. "And so we have to devise game mechanics that are very, very light...get the social right, and then work on the game mechanics."

"Anyone can join the game by following BackChatter on Twitter"

Gamer blog

"Teachers trying to get students interested in molecular biology or space now have a new tool -- video games. As more children grow up playing video games, educators are partnering with game developers and scientists to create new interactive experiences for the classroom."

"Research conducted by London-based Global Web Index, a collaboration between online market research agency Lightspeed Research and Trendstream, suggests that streaming might in fact be the right antidote against content piracy. "

My Information Technology in a Global Society commented on this in "What's Up" today - 12-10-09