links for 2007-07-05
by Pippa on July 5, 2007
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Great gamasutra article on how video games technology can be used to present serious issues. While there’s a history of games being used for education and training (flight simulation and military training come to mind) games are overwhelmingly viewed as
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A simple and powerful game-based representation of how the hunt for a non-uniformed enemies causes civilian casualties and destruction of societies and community resources.
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i saw a very interesting documentary about games the other night and thought ‘wow, this world of pip’s is very crazy’! do you know there are people in romania and the phillipines, big groups of people, who you can give your avatar to and they ‘level’ it for you? meaning they play and play and play using your avatar and help it to climb up through the levels? there was this mum in california or somewhere who was having her avatar levelled, after ten days it came back being able to do all these cool things. i want to hand leighstardust to some group of people in another country and get them to ‘level’ her. you know, nothing crazy. maybe just U2 level… or spoon?
xo lsd
by leighstardust on July 10, 2007 at 4:14 pm. #