Tag: Games
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UGA’s Graduate School Magazine
The University of Georgia’s Graduate School recently did a piece on the research group I’ve been working with on games and simulations. I’ve embedded the electronic version of it below. My photo is pretty funny. I’m trying to get a digital copy of it now. Open publication – Free publishing – More gradstudies
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On Train and “The Irish Game”
Its taken me a long time to sit down and digest all that I’ve read about Train and Siochan Leat (aka “The Irish Game”) as well as my own experiences playing the games and watching them get played. I know, a good academic like me ought to be able to come up with something worthwhile…
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iDMAa 2008: Gaming and Virtual Worlds – Day 2
What was perhaps most interesting about this panel was actually what was not said. The panel in many respects represented the (dis)connect between departments and disciplines surrounding (video)game development. One presenter seemed to even embody the kind of (inter)disciplinary divide. One panelist actually said they didn’t understand why they were even on this particular panel,…
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Cards as a Meditation…
Perhaps I’ve simply listened to too much Sting as of late. But my meditation has, as it often has of late, settled on the game, the geometry of chance. I know that the spades are the swords of a soldier I know that the clubs are weapons of war I know that diamonds mean money…