by Richard Carey | Jan 6, 2009 | Next Tech, Learning Games & Simulations, Marketing
After developing educational technology products for Pearson and Scholastic, I’ve come to appreciate the value of creating products that are accessible to users with vision-, hearing- and learning-related disabilities. Whether because they are English language...
by Richard Carey | Oct 6, 2008 | The Anthropocene, Learning Games & Simulations
Narrative story telling has been part of the the human experience since we told tales of the days hunt around the fire, about what it was like to “be there” when this or that event happened. From that oral tradition, we learned to write them in pictures,...
by Richard Carey | May 6, 2008 | The Anthropocene, Learning Games & Simulations
As a cold-war baby one of my favorite cartoon strips was Mad magazine’s Spy vs. Spy. That all flashed back to me a few years ago at the second Serious Games Summit in Crystal City, VA, just across the highway from the Pentagon. There, it didn’t take long...
by Richard Carey | Apr 10, 2008 | Learning Games & Simulations
How could you go wrong choosing William Shakespeare’s plays and characters to be the centerpiece of a massively multiplayer online game? Just ask Ted Castronova who received a “genius grant” from the MacArthur Foundation to create Arden: The World of...