Entries tagged with: Simulation

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Speculative Gaming

In the past 24 hours, I've received two different pings from my Respected Elders asking about games as a mechanism for articulating disruptive scenarios. Both inquiries mentioned the wizard-queen of persuasive games, Jane McGonigal, of course. It's kind of odd...

Posted on February 16, 2011 3:51 PM

Topsight: February 4, 2009

• The Year Ahead, Sterling-style: Bruce Sterling and his European alternate identity Bruno Argento both present visions of what 2009 will hold in the latest edition of Seed magazine. Bruce's is the pessimistic view -- 2009 Will Be a...

Posted on February 4, 2009 12:38 PM

Resilience and the Next Disaster

If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, have friends or loved ones who do, or simply enjoy the various products and services to be found around these parts, take heed: When the Big One hits, it won't...

Posted on October 15, 2008 3:31 PM

A Few Quick LInks

Nothing of any particular depth, but all worth a glance: • You Can't Destroy the Earth. Really. Not even with a Death Star. • Prediction Markets as Futurism? Eh, not so much. • Petabyte-scale Climate Modeling. GEAS, here we come....

Posted on September 18, 2008 1:53 PM

Playing the News - A Chat with Asi Burak

I wrote about the "BoingBoing Censored" game on Play the News last week, and designer Asi Burak left a comment in reply. The ensuing conversation in email brought up some interesting issues, and Asi has generously allowed me to publish...

Posted on July 8, 2008 2:06 PM

SimFuture(s)

I've long been a fan of the use of games and sims as a way of working through future-facing issues. The big advantage of games as a foresight device is the capacity to fail in interesting ways: you can try...

Posted on May 28, 2008 4:21 PM

Wednesday Topsight, April 23, 2008

• Early Bright Green: "It is when man shall have discovered the means of restocking the sea and of controlling its supplies that his "dominion over the fish" will be perfect. The power to deplete, which so far marks the...

Posted on April 23, 2008 4:16 PM

SimPolitics

The hard-right Swiss People's Party -- the SVP -- is not known for its subtlety. I took the picture to the right, a campaign billboard for the SVP, when in Zurich last month; to be fair, while I ran across...

Posted on October 30, 2007 2:52 PM

SimSociety

The new version of SimCity -- SimCity Societies -- is due out in about a month, and I'm really looking forward to it. As long-time readers may recall, I've been an advocate of the use of simulation games as a...

Posted on October 11, 2007 3:45 PM

F in Citizenship

Foreign Policy magazine has come out with its annual listing of "Failed States. Perhaps not surprisingly, most of the media attention to this list has focused on Iraq being #2 on the list, behind Sudan. Of greater interest to me,...

Posted on June 19, 2007 5:17 PM

Tuesday Topsight, June 5, 2007

My month of travel is over, and I look forward to sleeping in my own bed. • Vote Early, Vote Often: I recorded my KQED Perspectives piece earlier today, and once again was told that I have a voice for...

Posted on June 5, 2007 8:36 PM

Rehearsing the Future

Never underestimate the power of a "do-over." Video gamers know exactly what I'm talking about: the ability to face a challenge over and over again, in most cases with a "reset" of the environment to the initial conditions of the...

Posted on March 27, 2007 3:34 PM

Tuesday Topsight, January 30, 2007

Multiple deadlines this week, plus meetings -- but interesting stuff keeps rolling in. • SimCollapse: Green LA Girl Siel gave me a heads-up about "Climate Challenge," a Flash-based simulation game produced by the BBC that gives players a chance to...

Posted on January 30, 2007 1:43 PM

McWorldRun

Ah, only if this were real... The International Serious Games Event in Birmingham, UK, was very likely pranked today by an anti-McDonald's activist group claiming to be a division within McDonald's called "McDonald's Interactive." Supposedly a group helping to train...

Posted on June 6, 2006 2:49 PM

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