playful thoughts on games and learning
A new survey recently published by the Entertainment Software Association provides some interesting facts about the American gaming industry. According to this report: the average age of a gamer is 35 years; 26% of gamers are over the age of…
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There have been a few really interesting articles on Gamasutra recently; it’s about time I took them out of my blog feed and put them here. The State of the Casual Gaming Industry provides a good introduction to what are…
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Early days yet, but we have just spent a fun couple of hours analysing the interview data from the first trial of the ARGOSI project. Lots of interesting stuff coming out but, in particular, it looks like there are four…
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Thanks to Katie Piatt for twittering about this: a quiz to guess as many of the most common 100 words as you can in five minutes. I only got 56 but I beat Katie so I’m happy :o)
Although overall I wasn’t too impressed with Gaming 2008 (mainly due to the poor organisation and lack of session chairs with any notion of timekeeping) I saw several interesting and insightful papers. These are two that particularly appealed to me….
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Got a big deadline on at the moment so really didn’t need something new to distract me (thanks, Scott). However, since it’s inevitable that I’m going to be distracted by something it might as well be something cool, like Kingdom…
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