This talk and John Cleese talk both make important points about creativity: most importantly, you need to make time for it in your schedule!
I decided to post this talk here because I watch it so often.
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Blog Archives
Zombie Pathogen!?
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Melanie
MelanieWhat could it be?
The Indie Stone, makers of Project Zomboid, an awesome cooperative survival game on Steam- loved Immune Defense so much that they asked us to do a Zombie pathogen. We are researching whether a virus or a bacteria will be our Zombie vector….
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Posted in Game Design and Development, Newsletter
Tags: drooling, Infectious Diseases, mind control, pathogen, Science, Science, zombie
Tags: drooling, Infectious Diseases, mind control, pathogen, Science, Science, zombie
Music and Games Fest Indie VideoGame Showcase (MAGFest MIVS)
by Melanie
MelanieImmune Defense was one of 40 indie games that were chosen to be part of MAGFest’s Indie Video Game Showcase this year! We received a lot of great comments, we brought three laptops and all three were occupied just about every minute… people happily dove into our strange and beautiful world,
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Immune Defense first playable
by Melanie
MelanieWe would love your feedback here!
Immune defense is a strategy game in which you earn to master molecular behavior to win. Year, it is a serious game, that is, you will learn something that is relevant to the universe you inhabit (as opposed to learning reams of details about a fantasy universe,
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Games are magic places that introduce concepts and create interest
by Melanie
MelanieA video game is a prepared space (Kurt Squire’s term, I believe) where people can see what you have prepared for them. A classroom is a place where teachers prepare a lecture, a discussion and group activities that should lead a group of students all together, at the same time,
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Posted in Education and Evaluation, Game Design and Development, Newsletter
Tags: education, introduction, Prepared space, Science, Squire, Video games
Tags: education, introduction, Prepared space, Science, Squire, Video games
Our Mission.
by Melanie
MelanieEveryone knows how to kill zombies. Why don’t people know how to kill measles?
A lack of understanding of molecular biology is what stands between our current society and one in which the average person appreciates modern biomedical science. We know from school that cells make energy, that atoms make up everything and that proteins are “sometimes enzymes.”
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Research based design of molecular science video game
by Melanie
MelanieBackground information: Melanie designed Immune Defense based on her research on Immune Attack, a 3D first person shooter style game where a player uses a microbot to activate proteins. Immune Attack, released in 2008) was developed by the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) Learning Technologies Program, which Melanie managed from 2008-2013.
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Posted in Education and Evaluation, Game Design and Development, Newsletter
Tags: education, evaluation, Science
Tags: education, evaluation, Science
Science Game Center
by Melanie
MelanieThe Science Game Center is an online magazine for games that teach science. Card games, Android phone games, PC/Mac download games, browser games and iPad games… search our games by platform, by subject and by age. You’ll love our site for its friendliness, clarity and usefulness. You can add your own contribution by reviewing games you have played or used to teach.
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