game-based learning

[Tereza Snyder]

On Feb 2, 2007, at 12:32 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

>
> Somewhere out there is a game waiting to be created, something that  
> will open up the world of entertainment software to a whole new  
> audience that isn't currently into games.
>
> Or as I once put it at a game developer meeting:  Where is the  
> "Catcher  in the Rye" of games, the thing that will appeal to  
> people who like rich, provocative entertainment but aren't  
> attracted to current game play models?
>
> Maybe it'll be made by one of the readers of this list....
>

Maybe me! In my next life, I guess.

Like Richard, my eyes were opened by Myst (well, actually by Spelunx,  
its predecessor, which BTW I'd love to find a copy of). I am bored  
bored bored by most games nowadays and so actively repelled by the  
pervasive violence that even though I belong to the Game Developers  
Association, I regard it chiefly as a theoretical study. However, may  
I recommend the SIGs of International Game Developers Association as  
a venue for making connections:

http://www.igda.org/SIGs/


in particular, the education SIG:

http://www.igda.org/education/


t


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Tereza Snyder

    Califex Software, Inc.
    www.califexsoftware.com