Sarah Stang hopes to use her new role as Assistant Professor with Brock University's Centre for Digital Humanities to help equip the next generation of game designers with the knowledge they need to make gaming more diverse.
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Immersive video game technology is rarely used to deliver the bonuses it could in terms of training, skill optimization, and dealing with edge cases that would otherwise be complicated or costly to predictably arrange.
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Thanks to the popular new video game Trombone Champ - a sort of Guitar Hero for brass players - Buckle was having a go at its exhilarating opening as if he were one of the first violins. Buckle, 29, who gamely agreed to test out Trombone Champ last weekend, gripped a mouse, which he would move up and down to change the pitch of his virtual trombone, and placed his left hand on the laptop's space bar, which he would hit to play notes.
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Ludic Learning begins with my experience as a high school English teacher implementing a video game as a literary text in three senior English classes. Over that time, students played the video game Gone Home and were assessed by a series of responses and activities that are in line with the aims of a typical high school English curriculum.
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Devolver Digital founder Mike Wilson is partnering with medical device expert Ryan Douglas to launch DeepWell Digital Therapeutics, a video game company that will both develop games that can treat health conditions. The company will also help outside companies identify existing games that have therapeutic value, the founders say.
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Sid Meier is famous for creating the video game Civilization. Meier released Civilization thirty years ago this month, after developing it with Bruce Shelley, a veteran board-game designer.
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How else can players "Upgrade" their character if they don't accrue enough points to spend at the game's store? Can you explain why there is this link between storytelling and gaming?
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