tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-94759652024-03-16T23:53:11.451-07:00Avant GameA blog about why games make us happy and how they can change the world.Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05045030552279368577noreply@blogger.comBlogger245125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9475965.post-49301773168350473382010-08-21T21:23:00.000-07:002010-08-21T21:33:53.513-07:00GAMEFUL: a secret HQ for worldchanging game developers
As a planet, we spend 3 billion hours a week playing computer and videogames. That’s a LOT of time -- enough to change our lives, and probably save the world (the real world) while we’re at it.
That's why we want to create a secret HQ for people who are making games that are making us:
- happier- smarter- stronger- healthier- more collaborative- more creative- better connected to our Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05045030552279368577noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9475965.post-72780411076957657652010-08-02T21:24:00.000-07:002010-08-02T21:24:32.828-07:00Gamers make good! EVOKE Global Giving challenge is underwayEVOKE was a 10 week crash course in changing the world. And already, EVOKE players are making good on that promise.
Today, 25 teams from EVOKE embarked on real, world-changing enterprises: And to raise money for their new ventures, they're participating in the first ever EVOKE Global Giving challenge.
Here are just a few of the amazing projects. Please take a look at all the EVOKE projects and Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05045030552279368577noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9475965.post-71242420839509118412010-07-20T20:25:00.000-07:002010-07-21T18:40:44.117-07:00SuperBetter: The Ignite Talk, and a Kickstarter ProjectThis week, I celebrated the one-year anniversary of my traumatic brain injury. I might not have made it without the game I invented to help cure it.
Here's a 5-minute Ignite talk that I gave explaining the game, SuperBetter. It's probably the most heartfelt, personal, passionate talk I've ever given. I hope you enjoy it-- I also probably had more fun giving it than any other talk I can remember.&Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05045030552279368577noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9475965.post-80096986447334854352010-03-24T17:46:00.001-07:002010-03-24T17:46:30.313-07:00My 2010 Talk -- 'Gaming can change the world"Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05045030552279368577noreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9475965.post-85481728092147465262010-02-01T21:37:00.000-08:002010-02-02T06:22:41.369-08:00URGENT EVOKE: Reserve your spot as a player or a mentor now
EVOKE trailer (a new online game) from Alchemy on Vimeo.
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Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05045030552279368577noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9475965.post-54482440363792152422010-01-11T15:10:00.001-08:002010-03-09T07:38:47.700-08:00URGENT EVOKE: Help us run a 10-week crash course in changing the world
UPDATE: The game is live! Play EVOKE now at www.urgentevoke.com
URGENT EVOKE: Help us run a 10-week crash course in changing the world
Reward: $1000 (US)
We’re launching a new alternate reality game. It’s called EVOKE, and we’re putting together a team of five game assistants to help us run it.
“If you have a problem, and you can’t solve it alone, EVOKE it.”
About the game
TheJanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05045030552279368577noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9475965.post-40889933737490766882009-09-25T16:29:00.000-07:002010-07-21T06:55:37.312-07:00Super Better - or how to turn recovery into a multi-player experienceI’m either going to kill myself, or I’m going to turn this into a game. After the four most miserable weeks of my life, those seemed like the only two options left.
It was the summer of 2009, I was about halfway through writing my book, and I got a concussion. It was a stupid, fluke accident: I was standing up, and I slammed my head straight into a cabinet door I didn’t realize was still open. IJanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05045030552279368577noreply@blogger.com49tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9475965.post-74845499718991184242009-07-11T13:49:00.000-07:002009-07-11T13:52:45.987-07:00CryptoZoo Game Trailer... and Behind the ScenesThe official CryptoZoo trailer: Find more videos like this on CryptoZooBehind the Scenes... (and how to play guide) Find more videos like this on CryptoZooJanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05045030552279368577noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9475965.post-70286326464391768652009-06-10T11:55:00.001-07:002009-06-10T12:04:45.619-07:00New York City - CRYPTOZOO games this weekend! WITH PHOTOSCRYPTOZOO is a fast, strange, heart-pumping adventure. It's literally the most fun game I've ever designed. If you're in New York City this weekend (June 12th and 13th) please come play with me! This is your chance to learn to run with cute and creepy creatures... It's free, it's in and around Times Square, and it will be strange and unforgettable.Reserve your spot in the game now! FRIDAY 11 PM Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05045030552279368577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9475965.post-74476519456621451872009-05-09T13:45:00.000-07:002009-05-09T17:25:07.292-07:00Play CRYPTOZOO! SAN FRANCISCO games June 5, June 7The cryptids are out there. Are you chasing them?NIGHT CHASE - Friday June 5, 2009 downtown San Francisco 8-10 PMDAY CHASE - Sunday June 7, 2008 along the Embarcadero 2 - 4 PMJoin the network and RSVP so we know how many secret runners to expect...What to expect at a chase:First, you'll follow mysterious tracks through the city on 1-mile chase through city streets and gardens. You can chase aloneJanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05045030552279368577noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9475965.post-28702590991059971762009-04-07T21:34:00.001-07:002009-04-07T22:23:30.598-07:00Prototype a new outdoor game with me this Saturday in downtown San Francisco! Prototyping is fun! Originally uploaded by superkiy. Wanted: 4-6 adventurous players to prototype a new outdoor game with me and Kiyash this Saturday April 11 in downtown San Francisco. Reward: Bragging rights that you helped invent the game.The prototyping session will involve some running, jumping and sweating. Anyone willing to play hard and break a sweat is welcome. You don't need any Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05045030552279368577noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9475965.post-61210463134355898402009-04-02T09:00:00.000-07:002009-04-02T10:31:27.792-07:00INTERN with me and Top Secret Dance Off!I am looking for an intern to help me run Top Secret Dance Off! It's an open-ended internship (starting ASAP, averaging 10-12 hours a week, and ideally continuing for 3-4 months). You can be anywhere in the world, in school or not in school, doing the internship for experience, or for school credit or just for something really interesting to do.TSDO is a personal project and small (but growing) Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05045030552279368577noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9475965.post-37202117365578992042009-03-10T14:23:00.000-07:002009-03-10T14:29:19.030-07:00Have you had the dream?If you've had the dream, you will know it.Strings, tubes, wrinkles, branches, or flowing lines..MassiveSmallThe dotYou probably had it multiple times, and it probably started when you were young. It may have been while you were asleep. It may have been while you had a fever. It may have sometimes been a waking dream, like a trance.You've often wondered what the dream was. and if anyone else had Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05045030552279368577noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9475965.post-58679077154069706442009-03-09T14:02:00.000-07:002009-03-09T21:02:44.465-07:00Take the Outlier ChallengeThis week from the Institute for the Future and the Signtific Lab: it's the third and final trial in our Free Space trilogy!Free Space: How to invent the future by playing in the Signtific LabView more presentations from avantgame. (tags: 2009 iftf)The experiment (PLAY NOW!)starts at 7 PM Pacific Time Monday March 9, and ends 2 PM Pacific Time Thursday March 11.Join the lab or log in now!The Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05045030552279368577noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9475965.post-87330679895371666702009-02-18T13:16:00.000-08:002009-02-18T13:18:22.345-08:00This is my Free Space future. Show me yours!Our first massively multiplayer thought experiment is LIVE, and will end in ~ 36 hours!If you have ideas about the future of Free Space or the Interstellar Internet, play with me...Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05045030552279368577noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9475965.post-34136564330181010182009-02-02T20:28:00.000-08:002009-02-05T21:42:37.890-08:00Free Space is coming...I've been working on a new future forecasting platform at IFTF. It's called the Signtific Lab, and it's designed as a kind of crowd-sourcing, micro-content, forecasting MMO.Here's the trailer for the first experiment we're running. It's called Free Space, and it's based on scenario that is both mind-boggling and probable.We've inviting scientists, engineers, researchers, designers, developers, Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05045030552279368577noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9475965.post-83049556950620243092009-01-31T14:22:00.000-08:002009-01-31T14:36:59.343-08:00I need to game-ify writing my bookWriting a book does not provide me with the same kind of real-time feedback, scaffolded challenges, and network of potential allies that a well-designed videogame does.Also, it is harder than playing a videogame. ^_^So, I am trying to game-ify my writing process a bit.One of my methods is to start writing the book with the chapter that I think I am best prepared to write, aka "level one", which Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05045030552279368577noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9475965.post-25926975381056102662009-01-29T11:29:00.000-08:002009-01-30T13:00:42.360-08:00UPDATED: I am not a game evangelist.You know, it's funny. I used to think of myself as a game evangelist. That's because for years now, I have been spending a lot of time talking to people who don't play a lot of games, or who don't take games seriously at all. Some people are there because they are curious if they should start to take games more seriously. Some people are there because someone else invited me to talk to them. Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05045030552279368577noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9475965.post-69813520063828530042009-01-03T15:53:00.000-08:002009-01-05T11:35:06.539-08:00The Secret Guilty SignThis is my video for Top Secret Dance-Off #1. Rules of the dance-off below. There is some major trash-talking and hip-waggling happening in this video. This is part of the awesome new dance MMO Top Secret Dance-Off. Find more videos like this on Top Secret Dance OffEach alliance will need a SECRET SIGN.The secret sign is a super-short dance move that alliance members will embed in EVERY future Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05045030552279368577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9475965.post-15974071065670394992008-12-31T19:21:00.000-08:002008-12-31T19:22:21.956-08:00I'm Throwing Down a Dance-Off ChallengeOn behalf of Guilt-Edged Blonde, I challenge ALL YA'LL to summon even a small FRACTION of the UNPRECEDENTED choreopowers of SNEAKINESS such as I unleash up on you in this dance.Guilt-Edged Blonde allies, please unleash your own SNEAKINESS to this song -- Busta Rhymes' Don't Touch Me Now (Throw Da Water On Em) -- which you can grab from Youtube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTFbaE2WYFoP.S. Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05045030552279368577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9475965.post-61961886966007717812008-12-29T17:22:00.001-08:002008-12-30T18:10:59.634-08:00Top Secret Dance Off PlaytestingAdventurous playtesters wanted.UPDATE: Cool... playtesters have joined from all over the world already: Japan, Singapore, Indonesia, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Italy, U.S., Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Scotland, Switzerland, Argentina... please join us if you are adventurous, creative, and like to help make your own fun.UPDATE x2: Now, you can win real loot! I couldn't help myself when I found Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05045030552279368577noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9475965.post-33347374209463455092008-12-09T09:45:00.000-08:002008-12-13T16:39:49.797-08:00I am on a ninja quest (to clean my apartment)I love Chore Wars. If you've seen me give a talk in the last year or so, you know this, because I almost always talk about Chore Wars. In case you're wondering, yes, I actually play this game, and in fact I am a gold level subscriber! (For only $10 annually, you get access to much more interesting data about yourself. I strongly encourage you to go gold!)Kiyash and I moved to San Francisco Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05045030552279368577noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9475965.post-2773994911153963392008-11-19T17:17:00.001-08:002008-11-19T17:18:05.034-08:00These Games are Experience GrenadesJust Do ItOriginally uploaded by What What. Okay, I had a revelation.Games like Superstruct and The Lost Sport and World Without Oil and Reverse Scavenger Hunts and Tombstone Hold 'Em and SF0 missions and The Go Game are "experience grenades".That's a new term. I throughly Google-checked it.Experience grenades: You play them, and that's like pulling the pin on the grenade. Nothing has to happen Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05045030552279368577noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9475965.post-16095610237340261702008-11-17T13:24:00.000-08:002008-11-25T12:09:15.579-08:00Special Mission: Inventing the Future! UPDATED with 300 micro-forecastsUPDATE:At our Fall 2008 Technology Horizons Conference, we crowd-sourced five questions (via Twitter, blogs, email, and SMS) about the Blended Realities that we will likely all be living in by 2019.We received over 300 micro-forecasts in less than 24 hours. Here are the massively collaborative results! (Posted in order of how many contributions were made -- the future of society won in a Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05045030552279368577noreply@blogger.com47tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9475965.post-39200970587235569222008-11-17T12:32:00.000-08:002008-11-25T15:48:46.736-08:00SUPERSTRUCT CELEBRATION!Who won top Superstruct Honors from Bruce Sterling, Warren Ellis, Ze Frank, Tim Kring, Jimmy Wales, Chris DiBona, Tim O'Reilly, and more? How many years did we add to our human survival horizon? How many millions of people achieved SUPERSTRUCT awareness? Which celebrity guest showed up live to surprise everyone?* What will happen next to the world of Superstruct we've all created together?Find Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05045030552279368577noreply@blogger.com2