Episode 100 – Malaria-Ebola and Freemium Games

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Our 100th episode is extremely special with us all in one room and with two special guests Jonathan Estes and Porter Stowell. Jonathan is the CEO of Smart Games Systems, Inc. SGSYS has been working in subsaharan Africa on games for infant mortality and malaria vectors. The transfer of habits from games to real life can truly be a question of survival around health and safety concerns. Exploring these themes we enjoy an amazing conversation about playing games at work! We discuss how games are being used to extend beyond simulation to real engagement of individuals with replayability and increased effectiveness over time.

Showlinks:
SouthPark avatar creator
Smart Game Systems
Insecticide Resistance Video about digital game
Smart Green Heroes Kickstarter – Preview
Chocolate Sauce and Ebola
Zork
Encase Portable Raspberry Pi Gaming Console
Raspberry Pi Keyboard
Ebola and the Walking Dead
Model UN
Doomsday Clock
Car Talk – Tom Magliozzi – RIP
Sparx
Let The Games Begin! Game Theory Nov. 13th

What we are playing:
Jonathan – Terra Mystica
Phaedra – Way Too Many, currently judging the serious games challenge
Michael R. – World of Warcraft – Live Blog
Michael M. – Sousaphone Hero
Porter – Bomberman with Time Manipulation

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Episode 99 – Free Beer Tomorrow

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We celebrate episode 99 with three co-hosts talking about some really cool serious games. An episode so good it is SCAREY!!! Our games cover the gambit of history, geometry, leadership, and DNA. We begin with a game targeting high school students and let them understand what it was like to be a Czech citizen during some very turbulent times. The art style is very film noir. We spend some time on Chocolate Covered Broccoli, and commit a few Word Crimes. We also go back to the idea of, is it right to secretly teach things? Does it have to be a hidden when you teach kids things? Can you teach fluid dynamics with games?

While not quite a review episode, Phaedra takes us through a series of shot outs to a crop of cool, serious, games which are coming down the pipe!

As we come up on Episode 100 next, we want your feedback and ideas, hints, tips, and thoughts!!

Show Links:
Silent Hill 2
Czechoslovakia 38-89
The Prague Spring
Charles University – Prague
DragonBox Elements
The Secret to Chocolate covered Broccoli
Word Crimes Video by Weird Al
Triad Interactive Media’s – Far-Plane
Nanocrafter
Pee Monkey – Toilet Trainer – Video
Netflix and Chaos Monkey
Emotiv
Episode 29 – Simon Says
Spider Pig Video

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Episode 98 – Something Sweet in Your Neighborhood

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Episode 98 – Something Sweet in Your Neighborhood:

Phaedra and Michael M take you on a fast introduction on the latest Alternate Reality game called Endgame launched this week by author James Frey in conjunction with Google’s Niantic Labs, spin through some thoughts about brand interaction using the example of Krispy Kreme’s marketing game tie in to the 30th Anniversary of the Ghostbusters movie and ending with some tasty teasers for the upcoming Serious Games Showcase and Challenge, where you can see Phaedra as one of the judges this December at the Orlando event.

Capture the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man!       Eat the Slimer Doughnut

Selected links
Endgame — http://endgameancienttruth.com
Niantic labs — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niantic_Labs
Ingress — https://www.ingress.com

Krispy Kreme / Ghostbusters 30th Anniversary partnership — http://variety.com/2014/film/news/krispy-kreme-ghostbusters-donuts-1201306918/

Krispy Kreme / Cheerwine partnership — http://uncpressblog.com/2012/08/14/north-carolina-icons-cheerwine-krispy-kreme/

Serious Games Showcase & Challenge — http://sgschallenge.com/wordpress/

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Episode 97 – The Laws of Online World Design

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Michael and Michael are back this week to talk about how the rules of game design from Raph Koster could be used in order to improve the engagement factor of serious games within a business setting. Are you an explorer, a quester, or a crafter? Do you like to uncover new things? Do you like to understand and follow processes? Do you like to create things? Is this just logical market segmentation, or can you progress a gamificiation platform that progresses from the explorer to the quester to the crafter? Michael R. mentions the hackathon he is working on and how he discovered a new gamification service being made available on the IBM Bluemix platform.

The Michael’s are suggesting that we are planning a local board game night in the Research Triangle Park area

Origin of Friday
* The Goddess Freya
* Fry from Futurama
NC State Fair
State Fair Fried Food
Raph Koster’s Laws
Star Wars Galaxies
NSFW – Quest for Fun
Bluemix.net
Gamification Services
Neuroshima Hex
WoW’s latest collectable Pet
The Big Squish
Phantasm

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