The fact that the T-Rex wins a hit makes this one a winner.

Amazing, simple game with one-button only - but the button does something different every game.

Kind of tangentially related to this:
I'd like to play a RPG with people that works in a very simple way - you play as yourself.

Players get together and spend a day customising their 'character' based on a number of pertinent questions. They're working on personas, basically.

And the 'game' is played about a year later. Ah, there's the twist. The 'game' is a wargame or other kind of sim.

I love this kind of stuff. In theory.

But, I'm English. Seriously, how do English people play these kind of things.

Shyness, somebody once said, is arrogance out of its depth. Am I shy? I don't feel shy.

I still don't know what to call these things. And this is bugging me and my IA efforts.

Wow, this one has a cool interface. Whether 'cool' means 'usable' is another story. Onwards and upwards.

There's a whole load of these. This one seems to get mentioned more than the others and it certainly looks neat/nice.

These things are where games theory meets game theory. There's a few of these for Social Media and web usage, but none of them seem to work for me. People used to love the Fantasy Football games and this fits in with that kind of thing.

You can't judge these games from the outside, I suppose.

The interface looks nice. I like the look of the ticker which feels very 'real'.

As I'm the type of person who bangs on about learning through games, wouldn't it be a good idea to put my money/attention where my mouth is and have a go at this?

I basically don't get these games. Which probably makes me the worst person to play them - or makes me ripe for learning.

Hmmm.

Some round-up/comments on game mechs for marketing mehism.

Like Freedom Bridge, this game's simple and moving.

You can play most of these. I like the idea of playing as the flu virus - games seem to get that cubist thing admirably.

Are these propaganda? Are they *good* propaganda? Do you learn or do you get enculturatedely socialised? All this and more in next week's installment.

Edutainment = fun first, learning incidental?
Serious Games = simulation/learning first, Flow > Fun?

What's the relationship between Fun and Flow? Is Flow a subset of Fun? Or vice versa? What do they look like in matrices and Venn Diagrams?

Tantalisingly small glimpses of this. Must dig out some more and get into ferret mode.

I like mammoth. But they've got this wrong - Sim City was ace, if you weren't a town planner. This is the curse of edutainment everywhere.

Aaargh, it's not realistic enough for the nerds!

Aaargh, it's too realistic and now I'm bored!

Still cutting edge, a few years on. Playful, antagonistic, provocative, other words that mean similar things.

Very very very good.

Summary/review of the book that everybody talks about and few have read.

I'm calling these kind of things 'Huckleberry Games' because they're a bit like the evil Skinner-boxing game-mechs-in-a-box things, but clever with it. (At least, this one looks clever. I've not played it.)

More on Moonbase Alpha, the NASA recruitment game.

Practomime: playing pretend in a context where everybody agrees that playing pretend is what you do.