About Serious Games

Serious games (SGs) or persuasive games are computer and video games used as persuasion technology or educational technology. They can be similar to educational games, but are often intended for an audience outside of primary or secondary education. Serious games can be of any genre and many of them can be considered a kind of edutainment.

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Wednesday 29 April 2009

Debt Game




http://www.indebted.com/the-game/debtski/

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Can the Iphone/Ipodtouch be the Dynabook ?




Way back in 1968, a brilliant computer scientist by the name of Alan Kay envisioned the Dynabook, a tablet like PC with nearly eternal battery life and software aimed at giving children access to digital media and facilitating education and learning.

We’ll about 40 some odd years have passed, and PC’s have flourished and powerful laptops now go for well under $1000. Although this has had a tremendous impact and kids a learning, I would argue that this has only been a partial realization of Alan Kay’s original vision.

http://ethicalgames.wordpress.com/2009/04/12/the-dynabook-how-the-iphoneitouch-can-realize-the-dream-and-unlock-learning-for-kids/


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynabook


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Tuesday 28 April 2009

"Happy Night" : serious game about the danger of over-alcohol

www.secrethappynight.com

The story : you are a secret agent on the field

You name is Jacques Baveur, one of the most efficient agent of the ASPE, the Pan-European Security Agency. You are tailing a dangerous synthetic animal smuggler who seems to be involved in a probably huge scale conspiracy. It’s nearly 22:00, we are the 3rd april 2028, when your tracking brings you to the Happy Night club. The smuggler just gets inside, with a black synthetic poodle on leash. It’s now up to you to expose all the dark secrets lurking at the Happy Night, the new place to be of the local nightlife...





Too much alcohol kills drunkness


Happy Night” is a Serious Game developed by Succubus Interactive, in partnership with the communication agency Double Mixte, on behalf of Nantes Health Department. “Drinking yes, but not too much!” is the message sent to young people (main target: 12-25 years old). Based on the serious game concept, “Happy Night” is a point&clic adventure game used as a tool to pass prevention and sensibilization messages about the danger of over-alcohol and binge drinking. “In order to pursue and enforce the prevention projects settled by the city Health Department, the choice of a serious game became an obvious option regarding the complexity of the subject and the average age of the target audience” reported Nadya Jahan, head of business development at Succubus Interactive.

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Saturday 25 April 2009

FriendFeed now lets users embed posts on sites and blogs - including comments

It uses an iFrame and thus creates a 'window' into friendfeed. Friendfeed's 'live' comments are becoming more and more like mini chat rooms and this is a great way to share what is going on with people outside of friendfeed:



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Saturday 18 April 2009

Starcraft Theory and Strategy: Alan Feng - Berkeley


This course will go in-depth in the theory of how war is conducted within the confines of the game Starcraft. There will be lecture on various aspects of the game, from the viewpoint of pure theory to the more computational aspects of how exactly battles are conducted. Calculus and Differential Equations are highly recommended for full understanding of the course.

Furthermore, the class will take the theoretical into the practical world by analyzing games and replays to reinforce decision-making skills and advanced Starcraft theory.

http://academicearth.org/courses/starcraft-theory-and-strategy

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Wednesday 15 April 2009

Tuesday 14 April 2009

Birdhouse iPhone app lets you capture tweet ideas and twitter them later, or untwitter them

Is this a twitter app bubble ?



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Babies love iPhones !



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Monday 13 April 2009

Self-hosted Microblogging is here



Create your own branded twitter with Status.net and Twitteronia, no server required !

http://www.louisgray.com/live/2009/04/twitteronia-vs-statusnet-battle-for.html


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Sunday 12 April 2009

Can Twitter make money ?





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Saturday 11 April 2009

Improve the way you blog & write e-mails with Zemanta

Simple point & click enrichment of your blog posts (and emails). In real-time, while you type.


Zemanta Live Writer plugin screencast from zemanta on Vimeo.



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Sunday 5 April 2009

Map of current web trends



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Saturday 4 April 2009

Charlie Brookers ScreenWipe: Computer Games



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