GDC 2007 Serious Games
GDC Mobile and Serious Games Summit GDC Call for Submissions Now Open Submit your proposal by Tuesday, September 5, 2006 For GDC Mobile 2007, click here. For Serious Games Summit GDC 2007, click here.
Babbello
A new Australian social networking site is recently underway – likely to be as troublesome to schools as MySpace but I wonder how long it will last – this sort of startup often has a short shelflife. See Babbello.
Facade: a private pleasure?
Grand Text Auto » Interactive Drama, a Private Affair? This is an interesting article coming from feedback to Facade developers about the experience of playing the game. The public vs. private domain of playing a game that isn’t strictly entertainment – the goal/purpose is interact with a couple experiencing some domestic disharmony. Public gameplay is […]
VR – visceral reality??
More from Terra Nova – Nick Yee and buddies have been investigating different aspects of virtual interaction and claim: Our data showed that many patterns of physical interaction in the real world carry over into the virtual world. In other words, our insistence on embodiment in virtual environments structures social interactions in these worlds in […]
Exceptional games not games as exception!
Thomas Malaby has been writing more on games over at Terra Nova – Against Exceptionalism: A New Approach to Games is his latest treatise on the way games scholarship is conducted and he asserts that there are some fundamental mistakes being made. Malaby in Stopping Play: A New Approach to Games suggests a new framework […]
Blast Theory want talkers
Innovative new media arts collective Blast Theory are looking for participants for their new project starting next month. Blast Theory – Soft Message on Radio 3 Ever wanted to talk to a stranger? If so, Blast Theory want to talk to you. We are a group of three artists fascinated by how and why we talk […]
Uses of blogs
As the Digital Chalkie team were completing the second in their series on blogging (sorry to have been unable to participate) some of my colleagues at QUT have just released a book on the topic… Uses of Blogs, an anthology of scholarly essays edited by Axel Bruns and Joanne Jacobs, is now officially available. Axel […]
IGDA Perth kicks off
Last night in the palatial luxury of the Velvet Lounge in Perth, the most recent Australian chapter of the International Game Developers Association had its first public outing. Arriving at the door to be greeted by hostesses in hot pants were about 50 of the expected demographic – youngish males with a certain air of […]
Social networks as game spaces
“The secret is, even though it’s called Game Neverending, it’s not really a game at all. It’s a social space designed to facilitate and enable play.”- Ludicorp CEO Stewart Butterfield Mindjack – Stewart Butterfield Interview describing the original incarnation of Flickr as far as I can tell. This is stuff I need to spend more […]
Call for papers for Digital Learning India 2006 Conference
Digital Learning India 2006 23-25 August,2006 Hotel Taj Palace New Delhi, India http://www.digitalLEARNING.in/DLindia Dear Members, The Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies (www.csdms.in) is organizing a three day conference entitled ‘Digital Learning India 2006’ in conjunction with ‘egov India 2006’ and ‘Indian Telecentre Forum 2006’ to be held during 23-25 August, 2006 at Hotel […]