http://www.youhaventlived.com/qblog/2009/QBlog210309B.html
Your professor tells you that you can’t study them for their own sake. However, if they’re as exciting as you say, and all the young people are reading them, then perhaps you could write an educational one? He therefore instructs you to go away and write a novel to teach addition.
For one of the conferences I was asked to speak at this year, I proposed a talk on the topic:
“Why the Serious Games movement is fundamentally bankrupt based on an idea that will never work, and what you should be doing instead, because there’s some great stuff you’re doing under that banner – but only when you undermine or ignore the classic definition(s) of Serious Games”
Unsurprisingly, they didn’t accept it. They kept on asking me to talk on something more “positive” and “business encouraging”; I kept on replying that it needs to be said, that it would be more valuable to their audience than anything else I personally could talk meaningfully on, and that if they didn’t want it, fine. Not my loss. Ah well.
(and to those of you who are doing great stuff and calling it Serious Games, but not following the foolishness of the majority – well done, keep it up, and we’re looking forward to what you come up with next!)
2 replies on “Serious game researchers: this is you.”
I wish I could have given the talk, and that I could have made some of my colleagues listen! I would be interested in a short list of what you consider the “great stuff” called “Serious Games”.
Of course, that should be “I wish YOU could have given the talk.”