The Finest Online Role Playing Game: Avalon. Educational video games. © 2010 - 2012 Gwen Dewar, Ph.D., all rights reserved Educational video games are big business.
But do they work? Unfortunately, there hasn’t been much rigorous research to answer that question, particularly when it comes to games aimed at children. One small survey has reported that kids who played educational games were less likely to suffer from attention problems at school. This contrasted with kids who played violent and/or arcade-like video games. Other research suggests that playing "action" video games can improve visual-spatial skills.
In a recent experiment on 60 undergraduates, Christopher Sanchez randomly assigned students to play either a computer word game or Halo: Combat Evolved, an action game of the type that has been linked with improvements in visuospatial ability.
iOS, Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone, J2ME. Video Game Design Between 1990-2008. Remembering the good all days, when me and my friends were playing Doom, Mortal Kombat, Quake or War Craft on a Pentium 133 MHz computer with Sound Blaster and a 4MB video card.
A lot has changed since then. Video games actually are a lot older than that we used to play in the 90s. The first video game was created in 1947 called Tennis for two and it was played on an oscilloscope like device. With the release of Apple II, Commodore 64 and the ZX Spectrum in late 70s early 80s people could afford to buy such devices and to play video games from their own home. 10 iPhone Games You Must Own. Top 10 iPhone Games, as Voted by Wired.com Readers. The Sweet Spot Theory of Actions [Game Design. Actions There are essentially two kinds of problem with which a game challenges a player: simple and complex. A simple problem is something like needing to throw a dart to hit a triple-20, or shooting a sniper off a roof.
Simple problems require very little mental time to solve, and so games that are based on simple problems tend to be more about physical activity rather than figuring things out. Games based on simple problems are tactical games. A complex problem requires thought and experiment. Most video games and sports are tactical, whereas most board games are strategic.
Players solve game problems with actions. How to make Angry Birds – part 1. Game Design, Psychology, Flow, and Mastery - Articles - Slippery Slope and Perpetual Comeback. If a game has slippery slope, it means that falling behind causes you to fall even further behind.
For example, imagine that every time your team scored in basketball that the opponent’s team lost a player. In that game, falling behind is doubly bad because each basket counts for score AND it makes the opposing team less able to score points of its own. The actual game of basketball does not have this screwy feature though, so real basketball does not have slippery slope. Scoring in real basketball puts you closer to winning but does not at all hamper your opponents’ ability to score. Slippery slope is another name for positive feedback, a loop that amplifies itself as in a nuclear reaction.
Slippery slope is usually a bad property in a game. The Game Bakers – Money and the App Store: a few figures that might help an indie developer. Emeric Thoa is the creative director and co-founder of The Game Bakers, an independent game studio that recently released the turn-based action RPG SQUIDS on iOS.
Twitter: @emericthoa ; company twitter: @thegamebakers _ _ _ _ _ Eighteen months ago, when I left Ubisoft to start an independent game studio and focus on making my own games, I looked online a bit to get an idea of how much income I could expect to make as an indie. At Ubisoft I used to work on big AAA console games, and I had some figures in mind, but I knew they wouldn’t be relevant for my new life: $20M budgets, teams of 200 hundred people, 3 million sales at $70 per unit… I knew being an indie developer would be completely different, but I had very little information about how different it would be. Angry Birds had taken off, Plants vs.
Amit’s Game Programming Information. What’s on this page?
I’m interested in producing complexity out of simple parts. This page contains bookmarks that I collected while working on games; I did not write most of the content linked from here. As a result the set of links here reflects the types of things I needed to know: only a few specific topics (not everything related to game programming), general ideas instead of platform-specific information (graphics, sound, compilers), and ideas and designs instead of source code (I find it easier to go from an idea to code than from code to an idea). iPad Apps for High School. eTextbooks and Educational Apps: iPads Enter the Classroom. Evaluating Apple's Foray into the Textbook Market. Apple today announced the new version of IBooks aimed at revolutionizing the way we distribute content in schools.
According to Apple, there are currently 1.5 million iPads being used in schools throughout the USA and the new version of iBooks is being created as a mechanism for delivering interactive textbooks to those users. With the aid of a free authoring program, publishers and individuals will be able to easily create educational content for distribution through the iTunes store. The textbooks will have a ceiling price of $15, potentially saving buyers hundreds of dollars over traditional textbooks. According to Apple, schools will be able to buy the books for its students and issue redemption codes for students to download them. iBooks Author Apple has announced iBooks Author, an OS X application for creating any type of ebook.
You can see the full Apple presentation here... The Wiki History of the Universe in 200 Words or Less. The Wiki History of the Universe in 200 Words or Less Quantum fluctuation.
Inflation. Expansion. Strong nuclear interaction. Everything I Need To Know - About Education - I Learned In Kindergarten. Image credit: michaeljung / 123RF Stock Photo.
Philosophically Disturbed. Organic chemistry is the chemistry that looks at carbon-based compounds, hydrocarbons and other related molecules.
It involves the study of the structure, properties, composition, reactions and preparation of these compounds. Occasionally these compounds and/or reactions will involve other elements like hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, halogens, phosphorus, silicon and sulphur. Even though these compounds are made mainly of carbon, they are incredibly diverse and the range of applications of organic compounds is extraordinary. These compounds form the basis of many products like plastics, medicines, petrochemicals, food, paints and explosives.
The amazing history of pi.