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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Friday, 31 October 2008

Bogost examines the role of video games in 2004 and 2008's U.S. Presidential election

The 2004 election cycle saw the birth and quick rise of the official political video game. While election strategy game have been around since 1981's President Elect, that title and its followers were games about the political process, not games used as a part of that process.

2004 marked a turning point. It was the year candidates and campaign organizations got into games, using the medium for publicity, fundraising, platform communication, and more.

That year, I worked on games commissioned by candidates for president, for state legislature, by a political party, and for a Hill committee. And that was just me -- other endorsed political games abounded, from the Republican Party to the campaign for President of Uruguay.


http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3834/persuasive_games_the_birth_and_.php

http://www.bogost.com/

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

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Thursday, 30 October 2008

Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the WiiRemote



http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/

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GWAP: Professor of computer science Luis von Ahn is getting people to solve problems that computers can't...while they play games.



http://www.gwap.com/gwap/

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~biglou/

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Wednesday, 29 October 2008

Startup Marries Games to Grid Computing

Web game developers can make decent money through advertising, but that revenue generally depends on clickthroughs and other variables beyond their control. What if they could earn some cash simply by making their games popular? That’s essentially the value proposition of Plura Processing, a startup that sells distributed network computing power.

Backed by $2 million in funding from Houston’s Creeris Ventures, Plura was founded in 2007 on the observation that “There is an immense amount of excess computing power wasting away on everyone’s home computers. We thought a technology that could tap into that power in a safe way could be game-changing to high-performance computing and cloud computing

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Glubble is an online activity center for families with children under 12



Glubble is an online activity center for families with children under 12. Giving parents and their kids a new way to play, share, discover and learn, Glubble turns the Internet from a personal activity into an experience for the entire family.

Glubble ensures a safe environment for kids to enjoy the Internet because parents can pre-approve all the sites their children visit. After all, only parents know what’s best for their kids. New sites can be added at any time… so Glubble grows with your children.



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Paramedic students at St George's Hospital, University of London and Kingston University use Second Life to aid their learning


The call comes through. A young female has collapsed in the street outside a nightclub.
The paramedic is dispatched to the scene, parks his ambulance and starts to assess the situation.
The young woman appears drunk and is singing in a slurred way, but after an examination and blood and glucose tests the paramedic discovers she is also diabetic and in need of immediate treatment.

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Monday, 27 October 2008

TechCrunch Layoff Tracker



TechCrunch is tracking the techcrunch:
http://www.techcrunch.com/layoffs/

http://twitter.com/web20FDcompany

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Inspiron Mini 12: Dell’s super-slim netbook - MacBook Air Killer ?





http://apcmag.com/scoop_we_review_the_inspiron_mini_12__dells_supersized_yet_superslim_12_inch_netbook.htm

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What's the problem with blogs and social networks?

http://www.wired.com/entertainment/theweb/magazine/16-11/st_essay







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Sunday, 26 October 2008

Producing EA GAMES' Dead Space





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The Guitar Zeros use guitar hero controller as an instrument






http://theguitarzeros.com/use_guitar_hero_controller_as_an_instrument.php

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LivingSocial's iPhone Demo


LivingSocial's iPhone Demo from LivingSocial on Vimeo.

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Saturday, 25 October 2008

Could Twitter become the terrorists' newest killer app?



http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/10/terrorist-cell.html

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Twitter Is Still Growing



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Thursday, 23 October 2008

Most older windows xp 3d games and MMOs run well on netbooks









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Lenovo IdeaPad S10: Best Netbook ? Where is Apple ?





The Asus Eee series had better watch its back. Lenovo's about to jump headfirst into the netbook market with not one, but two new devices: the IdeaPad S9, which packs an 8.9-inch screen, and the IdeaPad S10, which packs a 10.1-inch screen.

Two configurations of the S10 have been announced in the US. Both have displays running at 1,024x600 pixels, both run Windows XP, and both will use 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 CPUs. One will get 512MB of RAM and an 80GB hard drive for $399 (£200), while the other gets 1GB of RAM and a 160GB hard drive for $449 (£230). The IdeaPad S9 is also expected to be split across two configurations, though details on those are sketchy.

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Microsoft Surface Tables to Get You Drunk Faster



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Howard Rheingold: Vernacular Video In Culture and Education



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

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Mozilla MineField Browser Is Faster Than Firefox, Chrome, Webkit and Safari




How fast? Some claim that it has the fastest javascript engine on the planet, which means it leaves Google's Chrome browser in the dust.


http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10073252-16.html

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/minefield

Download:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

Minefild compatible firefox add-ons for even faster browsing:

Ad Blocking:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865

Mouse Gestures:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6366

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Wednesday, 22 October 2008

ASUS Eee Top - Super Simple Desktop Touchscreen PC





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Carcade: concept for an augmented reality in-car videogame

Carcade is a concept for an in-car videogame for the passengers, which captures the landscape and uses it as a videogame environment. Existing objects, for example trees and architecture, are recognized by the camera and enhanced by videogame assets. The game is influenced by the manner of driving of the car. If the driver accelerates, the game becomes increasingly difficult. If the car comes to a stop a different game situation evolves.



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Yahoo! Flickr Bikes



http://lifehacker.com/5049738/the-making-of-the-flickr-bikes

http://lifehacker.com/5049737/flickr-bikes-photo+map-locales-across-the-globe

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Superstruct ARG



http://www.superstructgame.org/

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xtranormal: If you can type, you can make movies. Text-to-MovieTM






http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/10/16/build-your-own-3d-movie-clips-in-a-flash-with-xtranormal/

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Tuesday, 21 October 2008

Turn your iPhone into a netbook ?



A company called OLO Computer is working on a small laptop that'll cradle your iPhone and allow you to use it with a large screen and full keyboard. You'll simply pop the iPhone into a space where the trackpad usually sits, turning the iPhone into a trackpad.

http://olo-computer.com/

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Monday, 20 October 2008

Youtube Video Comparison iPhone versus gPhone



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Qik: Live Mobile Video Streaming now on the iPhone

Kevin Rose demos Qik on the iPhone:



Chris Pirillo Review:



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Parallel Kingdom: iPhone/Android GPS MMO





Parallel Kingdom brings new meaning to Role Playing Games by using GPS to place the virtual world on top of the real world.

http://www.parallelkingdom.com/faq.shtml

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/10/10/parallel-kingdom-set-to-launch-one-of-first-iphoneandroid-mmos/

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Twitter is becoming mainstream: hitting stage 3 adoption

Adoption stages:

1) Scoblites
2) Youtube stars
3) Britney and Paris
4) everyone else



http://twitter.com/therealbritney

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Steve Jobs at Next Circa 1991: Laser focus on identification of the market





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

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Friday, 17 October 2008

The Social Media Classroom: A New Web 2.0 Platform For Education



The Social Media Classroom (SMC) is a new project started by Howard Rheingold which offers an open-source Drupal-based web service to teachers and students for the purpose of introducing social media into the classroom. The service includes tools like forums, blogs, wikis, chat, social bookmarking, RSS, microblogging, widgets, video conferencing, and more. The SMC is more than just a collection of new media tools repurposed for educational use, though. The end goal of the service is to move education away from being a unidirectional delivery of knowledge to become a more collaborative learning process.

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Brightkite for the iPhone: location based social networking


Brightkite for the iPhone from Brightkite on Vimeo.

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Tuesday, 14 October 2008

Obama Is Campaigning on Xbox 360



http://gigaom.com/2008/10/13/confirmed-obama-is-campaigning-on-xbox-360/

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Kongregate Labs: community-supported tutorials for Flash game development.



Flash-based indie development community Kongregate has taken the next step in nurturing up and coming game makers.

The company said Tuesday that it has launched Kongregate Labs, a new branch of the site's community that offers community-supported tutorials for Flash game development.

CEO Jim Greer told Edge that the tutorials, dubbed "shootorials," are deeper than the average "drag-and-drop" game creator

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