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Tag: Serious Games

  • Save the world! And learn a few things doing it

    EVOKE trailer (a new online game) from Alchemy on Vimeo. I spotted this in OLDaily and it certainly looks interesting. It also has a supporting site. I might just have to find a way to make time for it.

  • Stuart Brown on Play

    What is it about “modern society” that so strongly believes that play is merely infantile? Stuart Brown presents an amazing talk on play and how it seems to be a natural extension of any intelligence. It seems to be the extension of some work ethic gone mad that “we” need some reason to do something,…

  • Scott McCloud on Comics

    If you have 20 minutes, take a look at this TED talk on comics. It is interesting how he explains how comics gain their power – channeling all elements through the visual media that they use. It is really interesting how he takes a look at how ancient glyphs worked and how the first CDs…

  • Growing up Gaming

    Let’s start with this: There is an interesting message here, there are likely many people out there who think like this – people for whom the ideas from the Matrix are not really that far fetched. But the take home message is that we have come to a point that games have matured to a…

  • More than meets the mind

    Going through a bunch of starred articles and found this quote from Virtual Learning Worlds: I’m not sure why educators have this preconception of a learning game being a perfect standalone learning experience. Instructors don’t solely rely on a lecture in a classroom, they often have electronic support like video, images, or slides, they have…