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Amy Jo Kim is an internationally recognized expert in online social architecture. She has designed social architecture for Electronic Arts/Maxis/Origin, Digital Chocolate, MTV /Harmonix, eBay, There.com, Yahoo!, and others. Her influential book Community Building on the Web (published 2000), translated into 7 languages, is required reading in universities and game companies around the world. She has a PhD in Behavioral Neuroscience from University of Washington, and a BA in Experimental Psychology from UCSD .
Beyond Gamification: 7 Core Concepts to Create Compelling Products: Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2011 - Co-produced by O'Reilly Media & UBM TechWeb, March 28 - 31, 2011, San Francisco
First of all, this is not about haptics (literal 'feel', as in force feedback or other simulated touch) though haptics are touched on (har). It's about tuning the feel of a specific kind of game - the sort where your avatar, seen or unseen, becomes a virtual extension of your real self. This requires a certain tight feedback loop of repeated player input and game response that's fast enough that it becomes to some degree chunked and unconscious. Games like Super Mario 64, Half-Life, Burnout, and Geometry Wars all qualify. Civ IV and Starcraft, even though they're great games, don't qualify - the input is too far removed. It comes with a companion website, [...], and you are expected to follow along by downloading various example apps from the site at given points in the text and play with them.
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Jesse Schell, game design professor at Carnegie Mellon University, wrote an introductory book that was published in August, titled "The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses." The back overleaf quotes Will Wright saying, "Easily the most comprehensive, practical book I've ever seen on game design." I will try to briefly state why I agree and offer details to help you decide if this book is for you. Each chapter of the book adds a node to a network of relationships between the designer, the game, and the player.
The Art of Game Design: A book of lenses (9780123694966): Jesse Schell: Books
Welcome to the Massively Minecraft Community for Educators | Massively Minecraft!
You are invited to join Massively Minecraft, a professional community of educators preparing to explore a new game suitable for children as young as 4 years of age, yet expansible enough to still stir the imagination and interaction of late teens and adults. The purpose of this community project is to trial the use of the game Minecraft ( http://www.minecraft.net ) in schools as part of voluntary student activity. The community will engage in exploration and research, not to decide or direct any particular application of the game but, to understand where students might take it and how they and their teachers visualise possibilities for it use within the curriculum.
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Our video discusses an important topic - Universal design - and shows some clear linkages between the everyday world (usually referred to as "reality" and an equally real virtual world. ~ Susan Toth-Cohen Submitted by: Linda Lyster -aka- Bree Buscaylet Layer Elementary Layer Elementary fifth graders have been investigating how organisms survive in their environment. The online, immersive program, “WolfQuest” has given our students an experience to learn in a way which was never imagined. Students “became” wolves. After creating a wolf avatar, Wolf Quest allowed our students to learn about wolf ecology by living the life of a wild wolf in Yellowstone National Park.
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If you're an adult, I want you to think for a moment about your childhood; if you're a kid or teen, I want you to think a moment about your experience growing up and in the present day. I'm guessing that most of them were, in some way or another, in your "social circle." My sister, Adrianna, is in high school. A lot of her friends are "Questies" (a reference to the "Quest" program for gifted students back in junior high).