The Very Beginning
Keine Experimente. No Experiments. That was the election campaign slogan of the CDU, the German Christian Democrats in 1957. They did very well with that slogan, which became a familiar quotation ever...
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Is it okay to play a game about 911? Is it okay to make a game about 911? I came across the 2003 project 9-11 Survivor by accident. I was watching a lecture that Nonny de la Peña gave at the USC...
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This is a commercial Trailer for the new EA game ‘Medal of Honor‘. There has been some controversial about the opportunity to play Taliban fighters in the Multiplayer Option. EA has deleted that...
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A Social News Game
Social Gaming is hot! You can read stuff like that on dodgy marketing blogs. In fact. They are right. The current global audience of social games has surpased 500 mio. monthly active users according...
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You just can´t win with that newsgame stuff
Nora Pauls says that – just at around 2:54+x minutes. She is director of the Institute for New Media Studies at the University of Minnesota. She is the recipient of a 2007 Knight News Challenge grant...
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It’s the System, Stupid!
Sometimes an article or a post stands out of the crowd. I was very pleased to read “Newsrewired: Why news needs game mechanics and journalists should stop telling stories“. Why? Because there are...
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Gamify the News
Sorry. Not that much going on around here. Meanwhile i wrote a book chapter about Mobile Reporting (german) and worked on some very basic Flash / Action Script Coding at the CGL. Nevertheless, i spent...
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H.I.V. Extinction 1981
Okay, this is not a Newsgame. Why not? It is not about news. Nevertheless i am going to write about it, because it is my very first game that achieved some kind of feedback. Apart from that there are...
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Level 01
In order to get frequent updates on the site i decided to start writing some sort of roundups here and there. That seems to be the best way to reflect my current journey into Newsgames. Apart from...
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Looking for a Newsgame Wiki
This is a screenshot from “Pico´s School” an early Newsgame from 1999. I found it in Mark Nelson´s Newsgame Index that ends 2008. There have been other similar attempts to gather information about...
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Playing the News with Eric Brown
I already wrote about “Play the News” earlier. But it is always slightly different when you get the chance of meeting and talking to the people that actually have developed the game you are talking...
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Brazilian Newsgames
I am not able to speak or understand portuguese – together with more than 298 other languages. That is a shame and until Google or whoever will solve the global language mess we have to cling to...
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Why News Organisations Need Game Designers
Nice, not yet a newsgame Lorenz Matzat pointed me to an article about the “Hybrid iPad Game and Article” in the May 2011 edition of the Popular Mechanics iPad app. Popular Mechanics is an American...
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Connecting the dots
Long time no see. And now i bore you with a Steve Jobs reference for a start. To cite Mister Apple might not be very witty but i instantly had to think about his Stanford Commencement Speech 2005 when...
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Life Is A Datacoaster
I do not know if you ever played Rollercoaster Tycoon. If you have never ever played it, it may sound odd to transform a recreational fun in the real world into a computer game, when the most fun part...
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How To Kill The Tyrant
Yet another Flash-Newsgame. That was my first reaction to the Syrian Revolt Mini Game. At first glance problems seem to be obvious. The protests in Syria startet in January 2011, escalating to an...
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Terrorhunter…
This site is more or less sleeping right now. I concentrate on writing my master thesis about the usage of drones in the military / games context until fall 2012. Thx, Marcus Crossposting from the...
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Hello. Goodbye.
So. I finished my Master Thesis. And you can call me “Master of Game Development and Research” from now on. Together with Linda i started a Game Studio for Serious Games, Newsgames and Games For...
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Games + News = ♥
Paperboy is a 1984 arcade game by Atari Games – Newsgames were invented 17 years later Basically the idea is pretty straight forward and it goes like this: News + Games = Newsgames. Newsgames is a...
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Brainstorming a (PRISM-)Newsgame
It is easy to discuss, critizise and condemn attempts to push things forward. The harder part is to actually produce stuff. That is why we at the Good Evil have set up our very first #Newsgamesweek....
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