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Nomad Log 2008.05/09: Gaming Edition
Gaming News:
- Collateral Damage, An Anime Themed Board Game - Check out the manga-style game-play overview.
- Play a puzzle, compete for high scores, and help cure cancer at the same time!
- You need your marbles to play the Warball CCG, quite literally.
- Bucephalus Games will launch with 32 games!
- 5 years of EVE Online
Opinion:
- Courts Should Reject Blizzard’s Assault on the First Sale Doctrine (another piece here) - Actually, this reminds me of an article about what users actually get when they pay EVE Online. Apparently, not much. Let’s hope things don’t devolve into “renting fun”.
Features:
- All about Boom Blox - Honestly, I don’t know much about this game aside from the fact that it involves blocks, explosions, and Stephen Speilberg.
- World Of CEO-craft - My opinion is that these type of things are signs of the long term cultural effects of video games.
- Cooperation and Engagement: What can board games teach us?
- 4 grad students prototype 50 games in 1 sem - It provides quite a bit of insight in game design and development. I highly recommend this piece for reading if you’re an aspiring game designer. Some nuggets are even applicable to non-video-games.
Play a puzzle game, compete for high scores, and help cure cancer at the same time!
At first glance, I thought Foldit was just a new version of Folding@home. I did a double-take when I realized the article said it was a “game”.
“Foldit attempts to predict the structure of a protein by taking advantage of humans’ puzzle-solving intuituions and having people play competitively to fold the best proteins.”
The game is basically a data gathering engine to study if humans can come up with better pattern-folding techniques than computers can. If the data gathered from playing the game can actually produce better protein folding algorithms, then it won’t just speed up scientist’s efforts in folding, it would also help inprove the data generated by volunteer distributed solutions like Folding@home.
I already signed-up, will download and check-out the game later. If it turns out to be fun then this would be a great example of how games can be utilized to actually contribute to society in ways other than entertainment or culture.
Goto the Foldit’s site and start folding!
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