Games are fun and we should play more of them! That being said, we should also be conscious of the impact our technological-driven gaming has on the environment. Ben Abraham recently launched a new project called Greening the Game Industry to promote the concept of sustainable gaming. The project stems
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Things Are Good: Financial Times Made a Climate Change Game
When you think about climate change coverage in the Financial Times you may assume that they’re writing about how to profit from it; however, the tides have risen. The market-focused publication recently published a short and sweet game that explores how we can avoid climate catastrophe. Through a series of
Continue readingThings Are Good: This Book Can Improve Your Creativity
The recently released book, Jam This Game, explores concepts of creativity and creation in the world of game design. You may find it challenging tot be creative on demand and this book wants to help you overcome that hurdle. The book is about the games industry however the chapters on
Continue readingScripturient: Toying With Townscaper
As a longtime gamer, I am always looking for new forms of computer and online entertainment for my PC. This week I discovered Townscaper and picked it up while it was on sale on Steam for about $6 (tax included, albeit a little more post-sale; also available for Android, Xbox,
Continue readingThings Are Good: Play Games and use Your Computer to Fight COVID-19
Without a doubt these are exceptional times; I cannot think of another moment in history in which capitalist democracies basically put their economies on hold to protect people. COVID-19 is causing great harm and we have a chance to do all our parts to fight it. The most important thing
Continue readingThings Are Good: Play a Game about the Trolley Problem
Wero Creative released Dr. Trolley’s Problem yesterday and you should go play it right now. The game presents a lot of trolley problem situations you can play through to test your ethics. You’ll find yourself trying to decide which way a runaway trolley should go – towards the upstanding citizen
Continue readingThings Are Good: Decolonize Games at the Toronto Biennial
This coming Saturday (Nov. 23) from 2-5pm you can play a game which challenges the colonial narratives present in too many games. Presented as part of the Toronto Biennial, Unsettling: Settlers of Catan uses the bases of Settlers of Catan to get players to think about all sorts of assumptions
Continue readingThings Are Good: Using an Escape Game to Educate Radiologists
Last year my company, Wero Creative, was hired to make an escape game all about radiology. We designed it to be a fun experience which incorporated knowledge that radiologists need to effectively do their job. It was a fun project to work on and through the process my knowledge of
Continue readingFinding Clarity: Starting Thursday, Bud Light is hoping to fill that bill with beer glasses that light up after touchdowns.. But it’s imp
Tucker Carlson of Fox recently assured us there is no racism in football. He impressed in three years with the University of Hawaii and made his NFL debut in 2003 for the Dallas Cowboys where he would spend eight seasons. “There wasn’t any wiggle room on their price.”. Central State’s
Continue readingFinding Clarity: Rather than allow another seemingly wild guess to fade away, Tate responded, stating that he and his girlfriend Elise Po
led the NFL with 426 yards per game, and had another RB (Mark Ingram) who rumbled for 1,043 yards. I don’t think he’s all the way back from that, so we’ll work him, although he has played, he has played in these (preseason) games, then let him get caught up
Continue readingFinding Clarity: After the New Yorkers looked like Lafayette in its game against last week no offense to the Leopards the real line opene
has arrived from New England to form an intimidating receiving corps of Jordy Nelson, Devante Adams and Randal Cobb. Division, TE ZACH MILLER has 10 receptions for 119 yards TD. The temperature in Missouri in October is somewhat unpredictable, so be on the safe side and prepare for a variety
Continue readingSummoners War game Tips & Tricks
Boom Beach has an interesting app. The gamer, regulating an unnamed military seeks to liberate a stunning archipelago from the evil Blackguard, an army that has actually inhabited the area and is using the locals for slave work as well as repressing them. Beginning with a tiny base upon an
Continue readingHay Day Cheats allows you get more diamonds
Hay Day is among the most prominent complimentary to play video games on the App Shop, however it’ll cost you a package in application purchases if you’re not careful. Right here are some ideas I have actually determined on how you can be successful in the video game without paying
Continue readingmark a rayner: Spot the Newton!
Hello and welcome to today’s edition of Spot the Newton, where you pick out the UNtrue facts about Sir Isaac Newton: was unquestioningly one of the most important scientists ever died a virgin had a passion for alchemy above all else once poked a needle in his eye to test
Continue readingThings Are Good: A Competition and Journal Looking Into Philosophy and Games
Games are a very popular cultural medium with a reputation for not being very “deep”. Game Praxis is a new project I’ve co-founded to encourage game makers and players to ask big questions through gameplay. It’s a game competition and a journal focused on philosophy and games. The goal is
Continue readingThings Are Good: Play A Game Inspired by Dogecoins: AstroDoge
Dogecoin is an open source cryptocurrency like Bitcoin. Indeed, Dogecoin uses Bitcoin as its underlying codebase; the difference between the two is that Dogecoin has a ridiculous, hilarious, and enthusiastic community. The nice people who mine Dogecoins have done a lot for fund-raising for good causes: Jamaican Bobsled Team Doge4Water
Continue readingThings Are Good: TradeCity: A Game That Shows You Your Own City
TradeCity: Toronto is a new expeirmental art game made by Golboo Amani that begins April 1st (no fooling’) and runs to the 12th. The game is set in Toronto and you need to physically traverse the city to play the game. TradeCity will expose players to really cool organizations in
Continue readingThings Are Good: Play a Game and Help Cure Cancer
This month Cancer Research UK released a game that helped scientists find a cure for cancer. It takes the obscure data that needs to be analyzed and translates that into a fun little game which can be played on Android or Apple devices. The aggregate data of players help scientists
Continue readingThings Are Good: A Game Designed to Help Solve Eye Problems
Diplopia – A VR Game to Help Strabismus and Amblyopia is exactly what it sounds like. This sounds like a great gaming project! The game is meant to help people who have some eye issues strengthen their weak eye to restore (near) perfect control over their stereo-vision. You can contribute
Continue readingThings Are Good: WeTopia: A Facebook Game that Funds Good Projects
We’ve looked at Facebook games that promote goodness before, and now we can WeTopia to that list. Instead of taking all those in-game purchases as profit WeTopia gives to charities that do real-world good. Thanks Kathryn!
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