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Description: A discussion and resources space for digital games and learning in South Africa
 

Serious games and budgeting, global financial crisis issues 
  Two good articles popped up recently one covering a game called Budget Hero and another on the results of a game design challenge themed around the global credit crunch, instigated by an interesting viral video. Postmortem: Getting Serious With Budget Hero [link]... more »
By Danny Day  - Jun 10 2009 - 1 new of 1 message    

Playing video games can make you a better person 
  Interesting piece from the Economist (May 28th 2009) [link] (Thanks Steve Song for the link)
By Steve Vosloo  - Jun 1 2009 - 1 new of 1 message    

Request from Sunday Times 
  Hi All Please see the correspondence below - apparently the Film and Publication Board has contacted Prega Govender about a study of games and addiction that they are releasing soon. Were any of you involved in the study? I'm not an expert on addiction, so I could only refer him to the article that Steve posted here a couple of months back, and... more »
By Marion Walton  - May 27 2009 - 2 new of 2 messages    

Violent video games cause harm - US attorney 
  [link] San Francisco - California said on Wednesday it will petition the US Supreme Court in a bid to enact a law that would ban the sale or rental of violent video games to people under 18. A federal appeals court ruled in February that the 2005 law was... more »
By Renee Conradie  - May 22 2009 - 1 new of 1 message    

GDC: McGonigal: Game Developers Will Shape the Future of our World 
  [link] I shall keep my own views on these ideas quiet until they've been discussed a little ;)
By Danny Day  - Mar 24 2009 - 2 new of 2 messages    

EU study endorses games for learning 
  The article Video games encourage creativity <[link]> is interesting, not because of any new findings in the study that it describes, but rather because the study was commissioned by the European Parliament Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection and... more »
By Steve Vosloo  - Feb 13 2009 - 1 new of 1 message    

Global Gam Jam 
  This weekend the local part of the Global Game Jam will be happening at UCT. [link] In a Game Jam, participants come together to make video games. Each participant works in a small team on a complete game project over the course of a limited time period, usually over a weekend. With such a... more »
By Raymond  - Jan 27 2009 - 2 new of 2 messages    

Fwd: [socialissuegames] Games for Change Launches Toolkit 
  This toolkit looks interesting. Please post any feedback on it to the group. Thanks, Steve ----- Forwarded Message ----- ...To: Discussion of games addressing social issues Sent: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 22:06:07 +0200 (GMT+02:00) ...Greetings All, Games for Change today launched "Let the Games Begin: A Toolkit 4... more »
By Steve Vosloo  - Jan 27 2009 - 1 new of 1 message    

ISAGA2009 Call for Contributions 
  Hi all Email received from Theo Lim. Huge engineering focus - any interest? From: T....@hw.ac.uk Subject: ISAGA2009 Call for Contributions Date: 26 January 2009 7:25:28 PM To: N.Ki...@hw.ac.uk, R.H.Hadfi...@hw.ac.uk, R.Burkh...@hw.ac.uk, W....@hw.ac.uk, R.C.W.S...@hw.ac.uk, X.K...@hw.ac.uk, lato...@dii.unisi.it,... more »
By Renee Conradie  - Jan 26 2009 - 1 new of 1 message    

Serious games contest 
  Happy New Year everyone. Hope 2009 is a good one! Here's an open contest for serious games: [link] Best, Steve
By Steve Vosloo  - Jan 12 2009 - 1 new of 1 message    

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