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  2. Thanks for a great Festival! We'll post a final roundup of today and slides from presenters as they come in #G4C09 1:15 PM May 29th from web
  3. Bradshaw: Recycle City & Electro City - spinoffs of the Sims w/a message www.electrocity.co.nz #G4C09 12:59 PM May 29th from web
  4. Bradshaw: new platforms like flash-based games & mobile games will make them more accessible for classroom use #G4C09 12:57 PM May 29th from web
  5. Bradshaw: games have led in using new models, platforms, and means of distribution - going to where players already are #G4C09 12:56 PM May 29th from web
  6. Bradshaw: "we're trying to make game-makers out of the gamers who have been playing all these years" #G4C09 12:47 PM May 29th from web
  7. Bradshaw: Spore: Galactic Adventures will let players script their own adventures- set, scene, behaviors that others can play through #G4C09 12:45 PM May 29th from web
  8. Bradshaw: goal with Spore was to create more value in what user can create, with greater ease of use #G4C09 12:40 PM May 29th from web
  9. Bradshaw: their games successful bc they give players a personal hook and ability to create content, share experiences #G4C09 12:38 PM May 29th from web
  10. Bradshaw: Sim City, The Sims not designed to be educational, but players have transformational experience and learn from it #G4C09 12:34 PM May 29th from web
  11. Bradshaw: The Sims is based on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - working title was Home Tactics #G4C09 12:33 PM May 29th from web
  12. Bradshaw: families w/ autistic children write that playing Spore/creating their own creature helped kids connect behavior to feelings #G4C09 12:29 PM May 29th from web
  13. Bradshaw: military using games to give an experience to try, fail & succeed before they're in the field (in a way training can't) #G4C09 12:26 PM May 29th from web
  14. closing keynote: Alan Gershenfeld introducing Lucy Bradshaw, producer of Spore #G4C09 12:18 PM May 29th from web
  15. RT @Rowsdower: Thompson references http://playwikipaths.com as a kind of newsgame. #G4C09 12:12 PM May 29th from web
  16. "computational journalism": people reporting news (using more than words to do so) should know how to use tools to create artifacts #G4C09 12:10 PM May 29th from web
  17. RT @savasavasava: thompson @ibogost games do a good job of getting people to 'rummage' through data & make sense of/synthesize it. #g4c09 11:59 AM May 29th from web
  18. what does it mean to do journalism? the field needs to share the process/literacies so more people can be part of it @ibogost #G4C09 11:54 AM May 29th from web
  19. the direction news gathering is moving can learn from gaming (creating incentives, using community tools) @pomerian99 #G4C09 11:53 AM May 29th from web
  20. puzzles are games that have been in the news for a century, but crosswords caused a moral panic at first as timewaster @ibogost #G4C09 11:43 AM May 29th from web
  • Name gamesforchange
  • Location New York City
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  • Bio Real world games, Real world impact.
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