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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. A small survey reports that kids who played educational video games were less likely to suffer from attention problems at school. This contrasted with kids who played violent and/or arcade-like video games.
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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.
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10 iPhone Games You Must Own | Game|Life | Wired.com
For many gamers, the iPhone is the first mobile platform with videogames that are actually worth playing. The gadget’s winning combination of touchscreen and motion controls means games can be much more intuitive and fun than if you were trying to play with a regular phone’s tiny keypad.
Top 10 iPhone Games, as Voted by Wired.com Readers | Game|Life | Wired.com
Your reactions to our recent list of 10 awesome iPhone games said pretty much one thing: We’re crazy for not including your favorite game. But then, how could we please everyone? With more than 4,700 games in the App Store for Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch music players, completing a thorough review of the library’s offerings would be impossible. Luckily, plenty of you are playing games on the gadgets. Apple has sold more than 20 million iPhones, plus countless more iPod Touches, and market-research firm comScore reports that 32.4 percent of iPhone users say they have downloaded a game in the last month, compared to an average across all mobile devices of 3.8 percent. Hoping to tap the wisdom of the crowd, we asked you to vote for your favorites.
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.
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How to make Angry Birds – part 1 | Paul's blog@Wildbunny
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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.
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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. 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. Zombies was already a model, Doodle Jump was a good example of success, and soon after I started my “indie” life, Cut the Rope was selling a million copies a week.
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Rolling backpacks are lame. There, I said it. No one wants to be that kid rolling into class, crushing people’s toes and running into desks with their weapon on wheels.
eTextbooks and Educational Apps: iPads Enter the Classroom | Singularity Hub
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
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The Wiki History of the Universe in 200 Words or Less
The Wiki History of the Universe in 200 Words or Less Quantum fluctuation .I happened to be doing a workshop at a local elementary school recently when I had an epiphany. Walking around and speaking to teachers and children it suddenly dawned on me that many of the "revolutionary" educational changes that many of us have been calling for have already been around for quite a while - just talk a stroll down to the Kindergarten classes. If only the rest of school looked a little more like those classrooms. In fact, eight important pillars of a 21st century education can be found in most Kindergarten classrooms every day of the week: The first rule of Kindergarten is to have fun. Our youngest students love coming to school, and if any child doesn't seem happy then we make it a high priority to find and remedy the problem.