Just a quick post this week, wishing you and yours a happy, healthy, playful holiday season. We look forward to hearing from you and exploring the world of serious games together!
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We are at 75% this week, with Sandy, Phaedra, and Michael R. giving a few updates on the C.A.V.E. at Villanova which we have all found out now means Computer Aided Visual and Virtual Environment. When you get your C.A.V.E. at home will you be fully immersive with rubber bullets? If you are near Villanova, stop by and visit Dr. Klassner to the C.A.V.E. being built in the library!
We also dig a bit deeper on Alternate Reality Games talking about Cisco’s global sales meeting games. Phaedra also tells us about the three letter acronym’s spy conference game, that was discussed at the serious games summit. This gets Michael thinking about the game Assassin from his days in high school. As we think thru this we start comparing story driven ARG’s and very open world games. How they differ in the amount of engagement each has? What is the difference between alternate reality games, and an alternate reality in a game? How do games like Ingress compare with augmented reality games? Do you need a good storyline to make your ARG valid? Or can the story unfold on it’s own, if your ARG’s world is engaging enough? Do you need competitive play or collaborative play?
Show Links:
CAVE Update
The Wolverine
The HoloDeck
Dr. Klassner
Thor
Frozen
Tron Light Cycles – 1st Gen and 5th Gen
Assassin Game
Ingress
Tapscott
New Media Expo
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Jus a quick post and a big note of thanks to you, our listeners, contributors, and followers. Without you we wouldn’t do this podcast.
Thank You
This week’s show include two Michaels and one Phaedra, we miss you Sandy! We also will be taking a week off to spend time with our friends and families, playing games of course! Oh yeah, and it’s Thanksgiving in the United States, so we will also be thankful that we can spend time playing games at work!
Thank you to listener Kirk for providing a great link to follow up from last week’s show about bitcoin mining within games. We also thank Apple’s App Store for providing us with another story on apps being pulled from the app store related to bitcoins. We then do a quick left turn to talk about Candy Crush, luckily your co-hosts will NOT be spamming you with Candy Crush invites.
We then follow a rabbit hole on a website and find a new game to play – Hipster CEO! What fun lies in store for us all as we try our hands at a virtual startup. Let us know if you pick it up, who can go public first! And to our U.S. listeners, Happy Thanksgiving!
Show Links:
Bitcoin Box at Airport
BitCoin app pulled from App Store
Candy Crush
Same-old-Same-Old story where we found our Rabbit Hole!
Play Hipster CEO
Audi’s ARG
Show correction:
Well the app pulled was a bitcoin exchange app, not a bit coin mining app. Oh well… Sometimes you just have to admit your mistake.
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