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by Karl Long
Wired magazine is running an article this week about an Alternate Reality Game that was spawned from an episode of Hero’s, and even claims that the article itself may be a clue in another ARG that Wired is running.
If you are into advergaming design, are tired of the endless Bejewelled brand-skins, and are looking for inspiration, check out the 300 Game Mechanics challenge with Sean Howard posting one entirely new game mechanic each day for almost a year. Idea #22 -- an entire adventure game in a 81x31 banner.
-- via Kotaku
Original post: http://adverlab.blogspot.com/2007/05/inspiration-300-game-mechanics.html
I’ve been following a thread over on Raph Koster’s blog (Link) that I wanted to call out.
The topic is user-created content.
The title of the post is “Quit being snobby about user-created content“.
You get the picture.
I suppose there are a few people who wonder why I find vending machines interesting and blog about them. I’ll try to keep this short and to the point:
1) Vending machines can fabricate an item on demand. Example: the Pouchlink system (reLink)
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Via: Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government /Government Innovators Network- Companies put "Serious Games" to work
If 20-something pilots can use simulators to train for catastrophes, so should a 20-something restaurant or retail manager.
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Synthravels is the first travel organization to offer a guide service to anyone who wants to tour highly-hyped virtual worlds like Second Life or World of Warcraft. The increasing complexity of virtual worlds is making them more interesting, fun and potentially lucrative. But it's also creating a considerable threshold for newbies, especially for those who have little or no experience with online gaming...
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We're very happy to announce another great new contributor: Eliane Alhadeff. She runs the Future-Making Serious Games Blog, as well as the soon to be launched Serious Games Portal. Once we read her very thorough and deeply researched articles, we knew we had to have her :) We have added the best of her recent posts to this blog, and more to follow from the library soon.
P.S. Be sure to check out her profile too.
At the early stages of the "Serious Game" movement, in many cases they were made available to users free of charge or distributed within the client organization, which means there was usually no sales revenue stream for the developer.
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I have been posting on Global Kids major breakthroughs since the very first days of this blog.
Even though I have already published 18 posts under a dedicated category, I felt compelled to transcribe Rafi Santos most recent article which, in my view, is a superb showcase on GK best practices for bringing a youth development model into Teen Second Life. Besides, it works as a summarized retrospective of Global Kids most successful journey in the field of Serious Games.
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Playboy Island in Second Life is opening soon. Look for Playboy in group search, join, and you too can be a playmate (that's the title group members get automatically). I bumped today into someone who said the island was actually open, but when I tried, the teleport failed. Don't you love the island's shape, though? It's one of the few businesses for whom Second Life is a natural fit, given how many of the residents spend most of their time.
Original post: http://adverlab.blogspot.com/2007/05/playboy-soon-in-second-life.html
by: Alain Thys
When she was eight, my wife invented a game called "The Yellow Car Conspiracy". In this game, all the kids who participated, were on watch to spot yellow cars which might drive through their street, stop in front of buildings or engage in other types of suspicious activity. If all kids worked together - the theory went - they would surely uncover the mystery that lingered about all these yellow cars hovering through town.
Much to my chagrin, I again find myself in the mindset where anything beyond a small listing of links just won't tick right.
So here we go again. First off, you might've noticed that people started blogging about the latest panic wave that hit Second Life. It took a large portion of my will to refrain from making any comments of any nature, but here's a good observation from csven, picked up from the comments on this post:
Following Ilya's post, here's a piece by futurelab contributor, David Polinchock.
CrowdControl continues to generate some press and it hit the Wall Street Journal today. We've gotten a flood of calls today and, although it may still be a little early to know for sure, I think that CrowdControl gaming will become part of the movie going experience in the future!
Via: The Next.Net - Entropia Sells Virtual Banking Licenses
The line between the virtual and the real economy just got blurrier. Swedish-based MindArk, maker of the online virtual world Entropia Universe, announced last week that it sold five banking licenses for a total of $400,000.
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Via Gamasutra, an NPD report titled "Online Gaming 2007: The Virtual Landscape".
Some data:
