Interview with Tale of Tales

You are in a graveyard– it’s not spooky or menacing, just a calm park with gravestones, accentuated by the chirping of insects and the rustling of the breeze. You play an old woman. She walks with a limp. You walk

Redefining Educational Games: Part 1 – Problem Solving

As a sequel of sorts to my post last year, A Parents Guide to Video Games, I am starting a new series. In these articles I hope to show that more learning occurs through traditional video games than those that are labeled “educational”.

Educational games tend to miss the mark. The game part of educational games seem to take a backseat to the learning. I think a lot of parents see their child’s devotion and draw to video games and become a little nervous at the intensity and effort that is displayed. There is often more energy expended on games than a lot of other things in their lives. A very normal reaction to this is “It’s fine if you want to play a game as long as it is an educational one.” The problem here is that the experience is no where near as compelling with an educational game as it is with a traditional video game.

Disputing morality in games

Editors’ Note: In this post, guest authors Jan H.G. Klabbers and William Robinson dispute morality in games. Jan H.G. Klabbers: Literature, among others, serves to enlarge the empathy of the reader, a capacity which is considered an important moral function.