Synthetic Words, Player Behavior and Games Research: Digested, Digitized and Distributed
Everyone remembers the Corrupted Blood incident in World of Warcraft (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupted_Blood) in which players would purposely bring a disease from a raid mob back into cities to kill people off. In one of the new Sunwell encounters, players fight Brutallus, a pit-boss style mob who occasionally casts a “burn” debuff onto players. This debuff lasts […]
Recently comments similar to “except I’m old so i don’t know how to play games like you” or “But you younger people just know how to play games, and I won’t be able to understand them” have saturated the classrooms I’ve been in. The disconnect between professors speaking on the subject of games, and those […]
Mark Bell today proposed an idea to me which I’m going to try to persue in a more in depth sense for an upcoming panel discussion. We talked about World of Warcraft and its ability to train management skills through normal game play. Though here I will use the terms “manager” and “leader” interchangeably, I […]