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Who Cares About Character Gender?

November 1, 2012 Jess 7 Comments

As someone who does research on gender and games, I often hear the conventional wisdom that men prefer to play…

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Posted in: Games Filed under: games, gender, league of legends

Portals and Intutitions

June 22, 2012 Jess Leave a comment

If you haven’t yet heard, Valve announced Teach With Portals, a new initiative to help students learn about physics by…

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Posted in: Games Filed under: games, intuition, learning, pfl, physics, portal

Making Horror, Selling Dread

April 12, 2012 Jess 24 Comments

The brilliant and inimitable Vincent Baker went to a horror convention and tried to sell horror role-playing games – and it…

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Posted in: Games Filed under: dread, games, instructional design, role-playing games

Smashing Toward Story

January 18, 2012 Jess Leave a comment

I’m moderately familiar with Harry Potter; it’s hard not to be, these days! I’ve read the books twice, and I…

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Posted in: Games Filed under: games, lego, narrative

Writing About Writing About Games

December 16, 2011 Jess Leave a comment

People occasionally ask me why I don’t blog about games more often. After all, I do research on games; I…

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Posted in: Games Filed under: feminism, games, writing

Teaching Game Design, Part VI

March 22, 2011 Jess Leave a comment

What is hard for the students to learn? What makes it hard? Is there a ’threshold’ effect in your course, so that…

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Posted in: Teaching Filed under: games, teaching, tgd

Achievements, Distilled

February 15, 2011 Jess Leave a comment

Oh hell yes. Greg Barker has written an absolutely terrific article summarizing his insights on achievement design. He’s got some…

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Posted in: Games Filed under: achievements, games, gamification, project

And In Other News

January 28, 2011 Jess Leave a comment

Are they really doing serious games for the intelligence community? Why don’t they just make them all play Spy Party?…

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Posted in: Games Filed under: cognition, games

Why My Kinect Is Still In Its Box

January 27, 2011 Jess Leave a comment

For Chanukah, my fabulous husband bought me a Kinect. He has also proven to be an extremely patient husband, because…

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Posted in: Games Filed under: distributed cognition, games, technology

Cyber Therapy

November 30, 2010 Jess Leave a comment

From the Times, a surprisingly good overview of what’s going on in this area. When people talk to me about…

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Posted in: Advance, Think Tank Filed under: discrimination, games, mental health

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