caravia/games

Social urban games to be played for free, a true temptation for addicts as me :)

Tilt is the maker of the games: "Tiltfactor is...

The Tiltfactor Laboratory is the first academic center to focus on social activist games. Our mission is to research and develop software and art that creates rewarding, compelling, and socially-responsible interactions, with a focus on inventive game design for social change.

As the first game research lab in New York City, we create games for change, educational games, artwork, and social software. We hope to make effective interventions in thinking about how games, and software in general, can evolve to take into account social activist principles. For example, how can one design for multiple learners and multiple play styles? Can games improve the self-efficacy of underrepresented groups? Can games teach equity? What is an excellent design solution which focuses on collaboration, yet also satisfies competitive urges?

Our work includes a variety of game and software initiatives. The Adventures of Josie True is an web-based game to teach middle school girls science & math. The RAPUNSEL/Peeps games project is an NSF-Funded research project to develop learning games for computer programming. We develop games for social issues or educational initiatives as well. We also research the creative game design process, and have recently been awarded a 3 year research charge to investigate human values in computer games-the work on Values at Play incorporates human values into a game development methodology and in actual game prototypes."

Pac Man car, the car for hardcore gamers.

"Gold Farmers are young people who earn their living by playing MMORPG games. They acquire ("farm") items of value within a game, usually by carrying out in-game actions repeatedly to maximize gains, sometimes by using a program such as a bot or automatic clicker.

They sell the artificial gold coins and other virtual goods they've harvested to players and/or farming organizations and get "real" money in return. Players from around the world will then use the golden coins to buy better armor, magic spells and other equipments to climb to higher levels or create more powerful characters."

Great collaborative network for young people wanting to make games based on their own experiences.

Richars Garriot made the Ultima game, is he exploring the space to find some medieval fortress or only to challenge himself?

Guy Debord was part of the International Situationist, an artistic movement where architects, philosophs and artists merged to discuss and create together. Debord wrote an important book "The Society of the Spectacle", maybe together with Marshall McLuhan's "The Medium is the Message", the two most interesting books about our contemporaneity.
A group of programmers and artists has made for computer Debordd's "War Game", "Kriegspiel".

"In 1978 the French Situationist Guy Debord designed and fabricated a board game called "The Game of War." Thirty years later RSG is resurrecting this largely forgotten game, translating the game instructions from French to Java and releasing it as an online computer game. We explore the contradiction between Debord, a symbol of radical politics and art in 1960s France, and the Napoleonic war game he created. In Debord's own words the game was the only thing in his entire body of work that had any value. Was it nostalgia, or a vision of things to come?

Founded in 2000, RSG is a collective of programmers and artists working on experimental software products. The Kriegspiel team consists of: Alexander R. Galloway, producer and programming; Carolyn Kane, research; Adam Parrish, programming; Daniel Perlin, sound; DJ /rupture and Matt Shadetek, music; and Mushon Zer-Aviv, design."

I knew all the time!!! Casual games could de-stress mums says totally objective study. Bejeweled, Tetris and many other casual games have the ability to make people more in peace with themselves and with the world!

Women are complex things and we should challenge our ideas about the "weak sex".