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Narrative in games

I’ve just used up the rest of my holiday allowance this year to take a week off to concentrate on writing my Great Novel (and getting on top of the washing). I’ve spent a lot of time reading about the…

Game building

I coming to the conclusion that ‘learners as game builders’ is a better model for game-based learning that ‘learners as game consumers’, and a couple of cool game-building tools have recently come to my attention. The first is Game Maker.…

Bits and pieces

It’s quite a busy week this week so I haven’t had time to explore any of the following links in detail, but thought I would get them down in one place before they disappear into the ether (i.e. the section…

Grinding to Valhalla

Interesting site here from Randolph Carter. His project, in his own words, involves “… going about the internet, darkening people’s doors, and inviting them to participate in an email interview with me. I’m then posting the results here for all…

ARGs in institutions

Just a quick post to highlight a new alternate reality game meta-site, looking at ARGs in institutions: museums, libraries, schools and beyond. This site contains a whole range of resources on ARGs in different fields, including research, articles, discussion and…

Activist learning?

Thanks to Fiona Littleton (who incidentally runs a excellent course in computer games for learning at Edinburgh University) who sent me the link to this article from Time magazine on the use of computer games to support awareness raising and…