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Gaming - November 21 - 17

Click on the image to visit Game Developer magazine for all the latest news.

Read the following articles and use them as background for the discussion this week.
Note: These articles will each open in a new browser window - you will have to register to read the Gamasutra articles.

Manhunt to Mortal Kombat: The Use and Future Use of Violence in Games
Designing with Gameplay Modes and Flowboards
Learning by Design: Games as Learning Machines
Random Thoughts on Mobile Games

Noah Falstein is the President of The Inspiracy, a game design and production consulting firm based in Northern California with clients in Australia, Europe, North America, and Africa.
With 20 years designing and managing entertainment and educational software for companies such as Williams Electronics, LucasArts Entertainment, The 3DO Company, and Dreamworks Interactive, Falstein has worked on projects ranging from toys to CD-ROM games to console titles to location-based entertainment.

Award-winning designer Jeffery Saddoris is the founder/principal of Mechanism, a small design studio in Southern California that specializes in Flash and rich media content. Prior to launching Mechanism, he served as an Art Director for Universal Studios, where he designed the first all-Flash Web presence for a major studio. Always looking for new design challenges, his body of work includes projects from a variety of industries, ranging from automotive clients such as BMW and Ford, to international construction and real estate, to both online and offline entertainment.

Even if you are not a gamer, spend at least an hour this week (prior to posting to the discussion) playing a computer game. If you do not have any computer games (or know someone who has computer games) you can always play one of the games that come with Windows.

Refer to this exercise in this weeks discussion.

See if you can find some current statistics relating to gender and computer games. Is there a gender gap? What do you think are the long term effects of a gender gap (if such a gap exists?)

Go to the Bulletin Board and begin the discussion

Here are some links for further information

Wired Magazine - Games | Game Industry News | Game Industry Research | RPGNet |

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