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Month: March 2014

Saintsception

By Todd Harper Posted on March 26, 2014 Posted in Thoughts Tagged with games criticism, play, saints row
Saintsception

Originally published at Stay Classy in February

I want to talk about how Saints Row 4 is a game, about games, about games. If you’re interested in hearing more about this topic, feel free to join me after the cut. Definite (though not Earth-shattering — puns!) spoilers for Saints Row 4 and potentially for Saints Row: the Third ahead.

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Friday Games: Fashion = POWER!

By Todd Harper Posted on March 25, 2014 Posted in Events Tagged with fashion, friday games, RPGs, sports
Friday Games: Fashion = POWER!

In honor of the Final Fantasy X-2 HD re-release, we will play games where fashion is a gameplay mechanic, including the new Final Fantasy XII Lightning Returns, The World Ends With You, Assassin’s Creed: Liberation, and others. Come join us …

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Friday Games: Designer Aerjen Tamminga

By Rik Eberhardt Posted on March 19, 2014 Posted in Events
Friday Games: Designer Aerjen Tamminga

We’ve handed the reins to this week’s Friday Games to our affiliate, Aerjen Tamminga: This Friday will be an exploration of some of the Euro Games that inspired me to make Pleasant Dreams. I often (accidentally) make games with indirect …

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Friday Games: Karaokards

By Mikael Jakobsson Posted on March 12, 2014 Posted in Events Tagged with card game, friday games, guest designer, karaoke
Friday Games: Karaokards

Ste Curran is visiting the MIT Game Lab to give us a tase of his unique style of game related storytelling as well as showing his soon to be released game Karaokards which recently was successfully funded on Kickstarter. We’ll …

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Commercial Games for Academic Literacy

By Jesse Sell Posted on March 10, 2014 Posted in Research Tagged with education, education arcade, game literacy, games based learning
Commercial Games for Academic Literacy

It’s no secret that video games have a long history with education. Some of the oldest educational video games have been around for decades. While we spend a lot of time and effort developing educational games, we should be discussing …

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Friday Games: Strider

By Todd Harper Posted on March 5, 2014 Posted in Events Tagged with friday games, metroidvania, robot dogs, strider
Friday Games: Strider

Wall-clinging! Cybernetic attack dogs! Russian dystopia! Nobody’s entirely sure what “Special A-Class” REALLY means, and we’re pretty sure there’s no real explanation for why a bizarre, plasma-powered tonfa-sword-thing should be called a “cypher,” but it’s difficult to deny that the …

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