Jerz, "Fatworld Review"
Read this review of a game that is designed to teach and persuade.
Dennis G. Jerz, J-Term 2010, Seton Hill University
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Read this review of a game that is designed to teach and persuade.
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/SusanCarmichael/2010/01/fatworld_is_a_fat_dud.html
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KeithCampbell/2010/01/fatworld_and_just_getting_fatt.html
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JeremyBarrick/2010/01/el_250_fatworld_review.html
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MattTakacs/2010/01/fatworld_falls_flat.html
Bear in mind that reading a review of a game is a pale substitute for playing a game. I wrote this during the last time I taught this course, so students would have a model of critical analysis that stands somewhere between "new games journalism" subjectivity, and rigorous (time-consuming) academic research.
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/CodyNaylor/2010/01/more_educational_games.html
A discussion of why games need to be technologically sound before they can accomplish anything else.
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ElizabethSwartzwelder/2010/01/fatworld_needs_a_makeover_too.html
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MichellePolly/2010/01/fatworld_who_you_callin_fat.html
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JessicaKrehlik/2010/01/review_of_a_review.html