the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, game studies researchers presented their list of the top 10 most unexpected findings for video game designers over the past year. This marks the fourth year that researchers Ian Bogost, associate professor at Georgia Tech; Jane McGonigal, director of games research and development at the Institute for the Future; and Mia Consalvo, associate professor at Ohio University, have presented their list. But this year audience members â” both at the panel and via Twitter â” ranked the findings in order of their importance. â’Asking the audience to order the top 10 gave...
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The Book on Atari
Racing the Beam, The Atari Video Computer System, a book by Georgia Tech Associate Professor Ian Bogost, takes a look at the development of the first popular video game platform through the lens of six game cartridges to show how the developers of those games, for better or worse, laid the ground work for the industry Atari helped spawn. Those games are Combat, Adventure, Pac-Man, Yars’ Revenge, Pitfall! and Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. The book is the third by Bogost on video games and the first he’s co-written with MIT’s Nick Montfort. With this book, the pair...
Women Get to the Point :: Too Bad it is When Texting
In an article in the latest edition of the quarterly journal Written Communication, IU researchers Susan Herring and Asta Zelenkauskaite show that while men historically talk more in public settings, when the exchanges occur via text messaging in a public venue — in this case, Italy’s real-time interactive music television channel Allmusic — it is the women who push their messages closest to the character-count limit, who use more abbreviations and insertions, and who implement more emoticons (like smiling and frowning faces). “The messages are very flirtatious and have nothing to do with the television show,” said Herring, a professor...
The Death of Penmanship
With more dependence of technology manual or certain skills has become either obsolete or extinct. I know that my spelling has become worse with my programming and overuse of spell check. I know that my communication skills have been shorten by using emails, twitter, social network, and instant messaging in lieu of actually picking up the phone and calling directly. Where I do stand firm is to not “text speak” as a replacement to full long winded sentences. Text abbreviations has taken the enjoyment of listening/participating in storytelling, debates and general conversations and language skills will die. Will the...
“We are Giving Away TV Studios”
Bonn-based internet visionaries are launching a virtual TV studio accessible to everyone via http://make.tv. The new service will be presented for the first time at photokina in Cologne on 23rd September, at Booth B054 in Hall 9, and is set to revolutionise live TV. Making an appearance at both the world’s biggest imaging exhibition and on the internet – after a year in development, http://make.tv is now introduced to the world as a new virtual TV studio offering everyone a tool for the production of their own live transmissions, without having to invest in traditional TV transmission technology. The virtual studio...