Supervolcano - BBC - Science & Nature
Play Supervolcano: Respond to a disaster! As the newly appointed chief of the Emergency Management Agency for Bluebear County, it's your job to handle an eruption of the fictional Mount Spur. Are you up to it?
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Baseball Fans Stay True to Low-Tech Board Game
Baseball Fans Stay True to Low-Tech Board Game This story was on NPR this morning. Strat-o-matic is a board game ancestor to today's fantasy leagues. Trip Hawkins (video arts) is a big fan.
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Wikipedia:Wiki Game - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Wiki Game is a hypertextual game designed to work specifically with Wikipedia. It was first conceived by a collection of avid Wikipedia enthusiasts at Amherst College in Massachusetts. The Wiki Game requires no purchase of product, just a web browser and a time-keeping device (optional). It is along the lines of six degrees of Kevin Bacon and a lot of fun. The game is designed to be played in person but could be played online using the free browser plug-in called jybe. available at
www.jybe.com . This plug-in allows you to co-browse and chat from within your browser.
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Experimental Gameplay - Entertainment Technology Center, CMU
Experimental Gameplay You can watch a presentation about this project and play some sample games.
Here is the project: create 50 to 100 games in 1 semester. New games every week--each game must be made in less than 7 days; each game must be made by one person, including all art, sound, and programming; each game must be based around a certain "toy" ie. "gravity", "vegetation", "swarm behavior", etc. Whoof..
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