That video was edited very well and full of great humor. Graphics are like the first thing people are wowed about in games. It's used as a selling point because how do you relate immersion to someone in a 30 second commercial? Visual flair attracts the eye. It's only human.
My only real experience with edutainment was the Mavis Beacon Typing Tutorial. Aside from just drilling certain key combinations, there were games. I learned to touch type in just a few weeks and never lost that skill. It was fun too. There was Typer Shark on Popcap and Typing of the Dead of course. Those games were more visually interesting, but Mavis taught me a real world skill, and for that it gets to be best of the bunch.
I think there's so much potential there for engaging students and making learning faster and more thorough with games. Take a subject and play with it, create a game with it, and you learn it really well I think,
That's a great zombification! Spooky.
I wonder when education is going to finally start learning some things from games. What's taking them so long!
What about Lego Halo. Would you like that? I know I would.
Brickfair seems to be the biggest Lego Con I could find.
I heard Skylanders is Activisions second biggest money maker outside of Call of Duty. When I was in North Carolina, I went to a Walmart type store and the endcaps in the gaming section were COD on one and Skylanders on the other. Now Disney's got a line so why not Scribblenauts too. $16.99 for four of them seems a bit steep and they probably don't have Harley Quinn. <sigh>
I think these are just figures outside the game. Collectible things. A four pack is $16.99.
Ha! Yea. Intimacy issues. I hang out at the same coffee shop day in day out but I still only know a few names of people who work there that I see every day. It's embarrassing. I'm trying though.
