Recreation Time

Re:Activism in St. Paul, one year later | Twin Cities Daily Planet | Minneapolis – St. Paul.
There’s a nice story in the Twin Cities Daily Planet about a staging of PETLab’s Re:Activism there this past weekend. The focus of the event was to commemorate the RNC protests one year later. The folks in St. Paul [...]

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On Sunday June 14th, college students, White House staffers, The House Budget Committee and Treasury Department competed head to head in a national Budgetball tournament on the National Mall – a game designed by PETLab and Area/Code to create awareness around the Nation’s budget deficit. US Secretary General Tim Geithner congratulated participants and praised the game, saying [...]

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NPR did a nice piece on the recent Budgetball tournament at University of Miami. Budgetball is a fast-paced sport designed by PETLab in collaboration with Area/Code for the National Academy of Public Administration to raise awareness and understanding about the Federal deficit.
Give it a listen: University Uses Game To Teach Money Skills : NPR.

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From Offworld, a link to news games done in Processing. Very cool mini-games!
At PETLab we’re working on a set of projects called “DataPlay” that interpret “serious” information with playful game mechanics. More on this soon…
Boing Boing: Offworld.

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It’s really nice to hear the giants talking about these things — and from what I’m hearing from friends returning from GDC, social games, indie games and new models for distribution are the big thematic takeaways. I sense a revolution on the way…
Gamasutra – News – GDC: Wright, Molyneux, Gordon, and Lanning on Games and [...]

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Boing Boing Video: Jane McGonigal – Games Can Change the World. – Boing Boing.

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Today’s Daily News has a great op-ed by Michael Levine and Ann Thai of Joan Ganz Cooney Center:

Students, put down those pencils and pick up joysticks.
I think we have reached a tipping point… And as a product and superfan of the “New Games”* movement I think we also have an opportunity to make some really [...]

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