Comments on: An Aubergine Grows in Manhattan http://grandtextauto.org/2005/10/08/an-aubergine-grows-in-manhattan/ A group blog about computer narrative, games, poetry, and art. Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:43:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Bill Crosbie http://grandtextauto.org/2005/10/08/an-aubergine-grows-in-manhattan/comment-page-1/#comment-74411 Bill Crosbie Tue, 18 Oct 2005 14:17:11 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/?p=955#comment-74411 Thanks for the nod, Nick. "Preaching the gospel of play..." I fear my baptist upbringing may have come out in the talk. The work is still a bit of a diamond in the rough, but we are chipping away at the excess portions to make the message stronger. I've been concerned that as more people in the field of education are turned on to the allure of games as instructional tools, that they will appropriate all of the surface elements and never get to the core of 'gameness'. This year I have been to far too many instructional technology conference sessions where the 'game' being displayed was a Flash animation with a mulitple choice quiz at the end. As Jessica summarized at the end of the session - games are powerful and games are important because they *are* games. We'll keep fighting the good fight and spreading the word. For those who are interested, our bare bones powerpoint slides can be found at the NMC site: http://www.nmc.org/events/2005fallregional/presentation_links.shtml. Thanks for the nod, Nick. “Preaching the gospel of play…” I fear my baptist upbringing may have come out in the talk.

The work is still a bit of a diamond in the rough, but we are chipping away at the excess portions to make the message stronger.

I’ve been concerned that as more people in the field of education are turned on to the allure of games as instructional tools, that they will appropriate all of the surface elements and never get to the core of ‘gameness’. This year I have been to far too many instructional technology conference sessions where the ‘game’ being displayed was a Flash animation with a mulitple choice quiz at the end. As Jessica summarized at the end of the session – games are powerful and games are important because they *are* games. We’ll keep fighting the good fight and spreading the word. For those who are interested, our bare bones powerpoint slides can be found at the NMC site: http://www.nmc.org/events/2005fallregional/presentation_links.shtml.

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