I created this 10-minute introduction to Virtual Worlds (think Second Life, but also online games like World of Warcraft and social networks with ‘rooms’ like Cyworld) for the panel on “Legal Developments in Virtual Reality”…
Read More
While prepping for the Virtual Worlds panel at American Bar Association National Institute on Cyberlaw, I kept running into papers from a great journal called CyberPsychology & Behavior. Here’s a taste of their research results…
Finally, official confirmation that I have the best job in the world…and that the hours and hours I’ve wasted spent playing Civilization IV have some redeeming social purpose…I got to play Civ IV in class!…
In my recent USF talk on Alternate Reality Gaming, I used ARGs as one example of the “uneasy relationship” between the community-based, self-organizing dynamics of today’s web, and ‘normal’ businesses. Classic ARGs are not even…
The February issue of Communications of the ACM has our Alternate Reality Gaming article as the cover story. ARGs are games that mix online and real-world play, where players (sometimes thousands of them) work together…