The Guardian on ARGs
This article appeared in the Guardian Technology section a couple of weeks ago. It’s a good intro to what ARGs are all about, and there’s even a paragraph about ARGs in education.
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Inspirational games
A conversation in the pub last night started me reminiscing about all the old ZX Spectrum games I used to play in the 1980s, and how they have shaped my thoughts on educational games. Here’s my top five spectrum games…
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LICK 2008
Big congratulations to my friend Keith for managing to put together a symposium with the acronym LICK. Result, mate. To be fair though, apart from the obvious comedy value in the name, the Learners In the Co-creation of Knowledge Symposium…
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News from the Dam
I’m currently in Amsterdam at the IADIS Gaming 2008 conference. It got off to a kicking start this morning with an opening keynote from Adriana Skarped, one of the main designers of the Swedish ARG The Truth about Marika. I…
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This week I have mostly been…
I realised this morning that I haven’t blogged for a while now, and there’s an awful lot of things sitting in my ‘must write about’ list, so I guess this post will be a bit of a brain-dump to clear…
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Designing the fun out of games
Okay, this is going to be a bit of a rant. I suspect that it also might make me look a bit sad, playing computer games on a Saturday afternoon, but here goes… In my spare time I’m currently playing…
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