After a long (and expensive) review, I've picked Game Design Perspectives as one of the course texts. If you're already registered for the course, feel free to go ahead and order it from Amazon. It will not be coming to the Bookstore. We'll also continue to use Prensky's book Digital Game-Based Learning.
Tuesday, August 27, 2002
After a long (and expensive) review, I've picked Game Design Perspectives as one of the course texts. If you're already registered for the course, feel free to go ahead and order it from Amazon. It will not be coming to the Bookstore. We'll also continue to use Prensky's book Digital Game-Based Learning.
Thursday, August 22, 2002
ABCNEWS.com : U.S. Military Pursues Computer War Games
"Last month, the Army released its first official video game ever designed for civilians called "America's Army: Operations." Taking over two years -- and nearly $8 million -- to develop, the game is similar to popular first-person shooting games such as Doom, Quake and Counter-Strike.
But unlike many other commercial combat games, where players are rewarded for racking up tons of "virtual kills," the official Army game is designed to portray a soldier's life in a bit more realistic light, say officials."
"Last month, the Army released its first official video game ever designed for civilians called "America's Army: Operations." Taking over two years -- and nearly $8 million -- to develop, the game is similar to popular first-person shooting games such as Doom, Quake and Counter-Strike.
But unlike many other commercial combat games, where players are rewarded for racking up tons of "virtual kills," the official Army game is designed to portray a soldier's life in a bit more realistic light, say officials."
Salon.com Technology | Coming up next: Ambushed on "Donahue"!
"Even though I am sometimes disappointed with their content, I refuse to give up on games. White kept harping on the fact that GTA3 was the top-selling game in the country, as if it were representative of the industry as a whole. If we went only a few more notches down the charts, we would have found games like Harry Potter, Star Wars, The Sims, Civilization 3, Spiderman, and Rollercoaster Tycoon. M-rated games make only about 9 percent of the gross revenue from the American games industry. The game industry is more diverse than it was a decade ago, the technology and storytelling more sophisticated, the market more far-reaching, but the reformers keep beating the same dead horses. White and her allies describe games as commodities no more valuable and every bit as dangerous as cigarettes. I call games an art, and challenge game designers to live up to their responsibilities as artists and storytellers.
Only after the fact does it occur to me that most of the research dollars our program has accepted to look at games and education come from Microsoft, the same company that partially owns MSNBC and cuts Phil Donahue's paycheck. You got to love living in an age of media concentration!
By this point, however, I am caught looking like a kid with his hand in the cookie jar, trying to explain to someone who really couldn't care less how contemporary universities get funded. "
"Even though I am sometimes disappointed with their content, I refuse to give up on games. White kept harping on the fact that GTA3 was the top-selling game in the country, as if it were representative of the industry as a whole. If we went only a few more notches down the charts, we would have found games like Harry Potter, Star Wars, The Sims, Civilization 3, Spiderman, and Rollercoaster Tycoon. M-rated games make only about 9 percent of the gross revenue from the American games industry. The game industry is more diverse than it was a decade ago, the technology and storytelling more sophisticated, the market more far-reaching, but the reformers keep beating the same dead horses. White and her allies describe games as commodities no more valuable and every bit as dangerous as cigarettes. I call games an art, and challenge game designers to live up to their responsibilities as artists and storytellers.
Only after the fact does it occur to me that most of the research dollars our program has accepted to look at games and education come from Microsoft, the same company that partially owns MSNBC and cuts Phil Donahue's paycheck. You got to love living in an age of media concentration!
By this point, however, I am caught looking like a kid with his hand in the cookie jar, trying to explain to someone who really couldn't care less how contemporary universities get funded. "
Sunday, August 18, 2002
World's most thrilling games you can play involving your search engine
This might make an interesting assignment for the course, too. Can we design a new search engine game that's good enough to make this list? What are the elements of motivation that make these gamey?
This might make an interesting assignment for the course, too. Can we design a new search engine game that's good enough to make this list? What are the elements of motivation that make these gamey?
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