EGC Summer Camp 09

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Contents 1 Purpose/ Goals 2 Possible games of interest for discussion/demo 3 Symposium Demo Room 4 Physical Setup

Purpose/ Goals

This took place during the 2009 TLT Symposium for Teaching and Learning with Technology, held April 18, 2009. The purpose was to provide an opportunity to expose/ teach members of the Penn State educational community about the potential for games in learning in a hands on, experiential environment. Game play sessions will be mixed with small group discussion and brainstorming. Designed to be both fun and informative, the hope is that these sorts of sessions will help drive awareness, increase appreciation, and ultimately lead to future collaboration.

Possible games of interest for discussion/demo

Commercial Off the Shelf

• Guitar Hero/ Rockband (music, composition)
• Bioshock (ethics, narrative, Ayn Rand)
• Guitar Hero/ Rockband (music, composition)
• Portal (physics)
• Assassins Creed (history, virtual world)
• Warcraft
• Eve (community, politics, economics)
• Empire or Medieval 2 Total War (History, Civ Building, Resource Management, Government)
• Spore
• The Political Machine?
• Little Big Planet
• America's Army/ Full Spectrum Warrior

Casual Games

• Desktop Tower Defense (simplicity, engagement)

Lightweight authoring environments

• Warcraft 3
• Wild pockets
• Flash - & Konglomerate tutorials

EGC Built

• Eco Racer
• Peril
• PSU Hangman

Symposium Demo Room

We had 4, 45 minute sessions available.

Presentations were as follows:

• Presented educational game ideas in small chunks. Designed to facilitate brief interaction periods with guests
• Videos of interesting opportunities
• EGC 10-minute Overview
• A few example labs
  • Digital storytelling via something like Warcraft
  • Gloria Clark SL assignment
  • Bart Pursel gaming UI assignment
  • Peter Idowu assignment.
  • Computer Science faculty member using game projects for end-of-semester assignment?
  • Taylor's Comm 580 Syllabus
  • Ann Clements Music 112 Assignment

Physical Setup

• 2 Consoles hooked to TVs
• 1 Laptop hooked to Projector
• 1 Laptop for hands on trials
• 2 Posters - Peter Idowu's EcoRacer, and Ann Clement's Music 115