playful thoughts on games and learning
I’ve been recently getting more and more interested with the potential of alternate reality games (ARGs) as a lo-fi solution to the problem of the expense of educational game development. Basically an ARG combines a story with a series of…
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I’m currently in York at a two-day JISC meeting for the projects that have recently received funding under the Users and Innovation programme. Myself, Scot Wilson and Rosie Jones are here representing the ARGOSI project, which stands for Alternate Reality…
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I spent a happy couple of hours this afternoon at two lectures, organised by the Computing & Mathematics department at MMU, on computer game design from the perspective of an industry professional, given by two speakers from Rare Games. First,…
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A big thank you to Scott Wilson for pointing this game out to me. It has truly risen to the challenge of making filing fun. Perhaps sadder still is the fact that I’m in the pub feeling the need to…
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An area I’m particularly interested in is the potential of multi-player games as collaborative learning environments. Here are a couple of papers I’ve been looking at recently that explore some of the issues. Constance Steinkuehler, a resercher at the University…
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This game falls into the time-travelling cursor genre and is worth a diverting five minutes. Much easier to get my head around than the very confusing time bot (of course, that could just be my limited attention span talking).