Video Game Design Education
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Game Studies - The Leisure of Serious Games: A Dialogue
This dialogue was performed by Dr. Geoffrey Rockwell and Dr. Kevin Kee 1 as a plenary presentation to the 2009 Interacting with Immersive Worlds Conference at Brock University in St. Catharines, Canada. Kevin introduced Geoffrey as a keynote speaker prepared to present on serious games.
“I don’t know if it’s an addiction, but he’s just glued to it. I think most parents are concerned about it. It’s the same with my daughter with her laptop computer in her room; instead of using the telephone, she’s on that, and I can’t be watching the both of them all the time to see if they’re talking to strangers, or to see if someone is getting killed in the other room on the PlayStation. It's just nerve-wracking!”
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Object-oriented programming ( OOP ) is a programming paradigm using " objects " – data structures consisting of data fields and methods together with their interactions – to design applications and computer programs. Programming techniques may include features such as data abstraction , encapsulation , messaging , modularity , polymorphism , and inheritance . Many modern programming languages now support OOP, at least as an option. [ edit ] Overview
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Kodu lets kids create games on the PC and XBox via a simple visual programming language. Kodu can be used to teach creativity, problem solving, storytelling, as well as programming. Anyone can use Kodu to make a game, young children as well as adults with no design or programming skills. Join our community, and discover games created by others and share your game at KoduGameLab.com . Kodu for the PC is available to download for free. Kodu for the XBox is also available in the USA on the XBox Marketplace, in the Indie Games channel for about $5.
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14 January 2011 At TEDxPSU, Ali Carr-Chellman pinpoints three reasons boys are tuning out of school in droves, and lays out her bold plan to re-engage them: bringing their culture into the classroom, with new rules that let boys be boys, and video games that teach as well as entertain. (Recorded at TEDxPSU , October 2010 at Penn State University, PA. Duration: 12:30) Watch Ali Carr-Chellman’s talk on TED.com where you can download it, rate it, comment on it and find other talks and performances from our archive of 800+ TEDTalks.
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Course: Beginning Gaming Educator's Toolkit
During the process of developing a game design course it will be important to discuss the challenges you are facing with peers. You may be luck enough to have someone on your own campus or you may need to connect with peers who live far away. TexasGames.net is one example of a community of educators working together to help each other provide a superior experience to the students they serve. Gaming Questions Forum