Playing at Leadership: Games, Gaming, & Leadership Studies
"Reality, unlike games, is broken." – Jane McGonigal
So since my last catching-up post, I’ve not been as prolific as I wish I could be, but se la vie. I haven’t been getting much videogaming in this summer so far, so I’ve only managed to put up part … Read More »
I know we academics say this every year, but this spring was worse than most when it came to things like “getting things done” and “time,” which leads me to my mea culpa about not having posted on here for … Read More »
So a few months ago, regular readers undoubtedly noticed a post in which I talked about starting a new blog focused primarily on voices from the margins talking about games. I did get some interest from some pretty cool people … Read More »
Amid the toxic fallout from August in the gaming world is an idea that’s being championed by several feminist critics, including Leigh Alexander at Gamasutra, that the term “gamer” ought to be disposed with. On the one hand, I completely … Read More »
At the end of March, I got lucky enough to have a presentation at the New England Modern Language Association annual conference in Boston at the exact same time as PAX East 2013. PAX – Penny Arcade eXpo – was … Read More »
So today my class actually sat down and played Settlers of Catan to explore issues of resource management and game theory. At the end of class, one student actually borrowed the game from me to play with his roommates. They … Read More »
So an article that grabbed my attention yesterday is actually on how playing games can make us nicer – specifically, “Forget violence: Do co-op games make us less aggressive?” by Jamie Madigan on Gamasutra. I’ve mentioned co-op games on this … Read More »
Last year at the Ethical Inquiry through Video Game Play and Design conference at the Prindle Institute for Ethics at Depaw University, I had the great pleasure of discovering (and playing) cooperative boardgames, specifically, Yggdrasil. Since, I’ve also been able … Read More »
Because it was requested… a post on leadership and Settlers of Catan. My history with this game goes all the way back to high school, and I have distinct memories of it from then, from college (when one associate of … Read More »
So I have several friends who build/design games, of the table-top, videogame, and card varieties (the gents of Sancho Games, D&D writers, the maker of Chronotron, and folks who work for Sony, Irrational, and Bethesda). One of these games is … Read More »