Re: kid gamers (will) rule

[Maria Droujkova]

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Dor Abrahamson wrote:

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2012-05-02-ten-year-olds-versus-triple-a?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=european-daily

"I have this line I use where I say 'kids are going to destroy the internet' because we just haven't a clue what they particularly want," says Fight My Monster chairman Dylan Collins.

I had a cathartic experience the other day. This is Page 66 (the last one as of now) of a Star Wars forum thread discussing, mostly criticizing, an announcement of a feature.

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=435828&page=66

All these angry, unhappy people! Now, Star Wars team used as many resources, money and talent as humanly possible, and still their game leaves users hungry. How can we hope to do any better with our math games?!!

The players will always be unhappy with provided content because only infinite amount of infinitely varied content would satisfy everybody's desires. Anything less is perceived as a lack - as deficit and shortage.

I hope the kids are going to "destroy the internet" not just through different interfaces. Collins later writes:

"There's a lot of boys in the world, we're happy to try and entertain all of them."

They not only have to be quick and responsive and nimble, as Collins wants his company to be, but infinitely so.

That can only happen if girls and boys make their own game content. Without making their own, girls and boys will keep feeling the void and lack of something that manifests itself in the monstrous "whiner threads" on game forums.

One word: Minecraft. It's curiously absent from many commercial game design conversations.

Cheers,
Maria Droujkova
919-388-1721

Make math your own, to make your own math 

[Thys van der Veer]

Has any-one come up with a start for a story-line for the math-game "design your own mine-craft game" some-where in this group?

2012/5/2 Maria Droujkova <drou...@gmail.com>

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google
Groups "Math Game Design" group.
To post to this group, send email to mathgam...@googlegroups.com
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
mathgamedesig...@googlegroups.com
For more options, visit this group at
http://groups.google.com/group/mathgamedesign?hl=en
 
"Let's build a better math game."