Persuasive Games
Over at Institute for the Future, Mathias Crawford recently published a thoughtful essay on how games persuade us to change…
Maryland Budget Game
I have a longstanding interest in games with practical real-world applications. For example, this budget balancer game, where you try…
Virtual Humans to Teach Emotion Recognition and Programming Logic
This looks interesting — ! cMotion: A New Game Design to Teach Emotion Recognition and Programming Logic to Children using…
The Great Game Designer
Paul Spinrad has posted some interesting thoughts about game design and real-world applications: I’m fascinated at how complexity emerges from…
Bacterial Prisoner’s Dilemma and Game Theory
This might be useful as a game design paradigm: Scientists studying how bacteria under stress collectively weigh and initiate different…
Space Garbace Scow (should be a game!)
This isn’t game related. Space garbage is a serious problem, a life-and-death problem. Bob Cringely has given the matter some…