Links to games that deal with social issues; including Play the News and Free Rice. Warning: Free Rice is addictive!!!
"Serious games" that are based on the work of Nobel Prize winners
But as games have grown in complexity, so has cheating. Massive online games such as EverQuest and Final Fantasy involve thousands of strangers playing simultaneously, striving to obtain virtual assets that have real-world value (by some estimates several billion dollars' worth). Cheating in these games can be at once harder to identify and more troubling.
A group of Los Angeles high school students recently created a version of Pacman that is based on people that they have interacted with in their Pico-Union and Koreatown neighborhoods. (See the games here). This fact alone - that is, their choice of characters - suggests that the games will be quite different than any games these kids have ever played.
via BoingBOIng: Last month's Wired had an excellent article on Luis von Ahn, inventor of the CAPTCHA, who has devoted himself to designing games that get people to do useful work. These are the digital cousins of the African merry-go-rounds that dig wells: projects that get people to have fun while adding metadata to photos, train an AI, decipher scanned books, and spot bomb-components on airport
For all that games have the ability to raise interesting and challenging moral and ethical issues, I’m forced to admit that a lot of them have a long way to go. Sexism and racism are still really common in games- and not just in the really explicit Grand Theft Auto sense. Honestly, Grand Theft Auto is almost the least of my concerns- it’s so blatantly sexist and racist, that it’s easy to avoid it, and it’s really easy to criticize and make a case for why I object to it. The problem with video gaming is that some of the sexism and racism is harder to make people grasp. For me, the problem becomes: how do I reconcile my progressive values with the undercurrent (and overcurrent) of sexism and racism that surround gaming? How do I help change things?
We thought that Ryan Lambourn’s 15 minutes were up, but apparently not.
The Australian creator of the widely-reviled V-Tech Rampage has found a new host for his googumproduce site, from which his controversial, amateurish and exploitative game on the Virginia Tech tragedy can be downloaded.
Raw Danger game, play different characters. Each character’s actions affect at least one other character. If a man asks for your help and you refuse, you may find yourself later playing that man. Choose a path that causes something to collapse and another character will have one avenue of escape cut off. Raw Danger illustrates that every decision can have consequences. Poss intervention.
Darfur Is Dying, an online role-playing game, was among the games featured this week at the fourth annual Games for Change conference at the New School in New York City. Conference included some MacA grantees - may be useful for GoodPlay references and interventions.
According to an estimate from a company called Power-levels.com, it would take someone starting from scratch 768 hours to reach the highest level you can hit in World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade.
Or, for someone who had already topped out at level 60 in the original WoW, it would take 384 hours to get to the top level, 70, of Burning Crusade.
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Links to games that deal with social issues; including Play the News and Free Rice. Warning: Free Rice is addictive!!!
But as games have grown in complexity, so has cheating. Massive online games such as EverQuest and Final Fantasy involve thousands of strangers playing simultaneously, striving to obtain virtual assets that have real-world value (by some estimates several billion dollars' worth). Cheating in these games can be at once harder to identify and more troubling.
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