Friday, August 5, 2011

MMO's and ARG's

After playing each of the the games for at least 20 minutes, include your thoughts about what unique experiences these types of game offers players in a digital reflection (Blog, Youtube video, Cinch, etc), offer some reflections about the game-play, it's impact, and some details about where you went and what you did. 


ARG's might be the coolest thing I've seen yet!  I had heard about I Love Bees, but had no idea exactly what it was or entailed.  I didn't even know these kinds of things existed, but then, I do live in the MidWest, I'm sure they exist here, but the ones for the Cali area look pretty sweet!  The rabbit hole phenomena is a sure way to quickly excite and engage kids.  I also really like this because their seems to be a lot of real world work potential.  Infact, when searching for ARGs in my area all I got were Supreme Court docs (are they trying to tell me something...)  I stumbled on this cool vid 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWNi0ly0TU8&feature=player_embedded


I am a WoW player, but not a WoWaholic, and yes, I did download Runes of Magic so I could experience another MMO.  I have trouble seeing MMO's in ways other than a game, but I do see applications in a lot of learning related terms.  I think their are a lot of possibilities with some of the WoW add-ons to create some great economics and statistics based learning (MarketWatcher, Auctionator).  In many ways I you could parallel various guild environments to types of governments, communities, etc.

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