“Video games are essentially about decision-making,” Lennart Nacke, the director of the Games and Media Entertainment Research Laboratory at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology, told me. “First-person shooters put these tasks on speed.
Meaghan Daly, president of Forward Vision Games, is utilizing online games to teach financial skills to students. She creates cloud-based financial strategy games geared to teaching concepts such a budgeting, risk management and aspects of personal finance.
“They get to see how they have more financial choices as they make better financial decisions,” Daly said.
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SSHRC will look to identify future challenge areas for Canada in an evolving global context that are likely to emerge in five, 10 and 20 years, and to which the social sciences and humanities research community could contribute its knowledge, talent and expertise. Steve Wilcox, University of Waterloo, is amongst one of the panel members in a discussion at CIGI series of presentations on the six future challenge areas at universities across the country.
It's Halloween again meaning the scary costumes and video games come out. Get your scare on with a top 5 list of the scariest video games that you may enjoy on Halloween this year!
1. Slenderman
2. Silent Hill 2
3. F.E.A.R series
4. DOOM
5. Resident Evil
Let us know what you think should/shouldn't be on the list by tweeting us @GamesInstitute
David Sonnenschein, author of “Sound Design: The Expressive Power of Music, Voice and Sound Effects in Cinema” is developing a prototype of the music game 3 DEAF MICE with interns from Berklee College of Music, and seeking a volunteer who has the skill to program the interactive interface. (We will have paid positions in the future once the funding is in place.) Unity 2D seems the most likely program that we'll be using for the final game, although other programming languages might be useful for the prototype stage.
On December 2nd, Drs. Brianna Wiens (English Language and Literature) and Daniel Harley (Stratford School of Interaction Design and Business) presented their work and research in areas of feminist and responsible design.
Canadian Cap and Trade Simulation (CCTS) is a serious game/simulation designed to teach undergraduate Chemical Engineering and Environmental Studies students about carbon tax and trade systems in Canada created by PhD candidate Alex Fleck and Dr. Jason Grove.
Dr. Kevin Harrigan is a founding member of the Games Institute, the director of the Knowledge Translation Stream at UWaterloo, and contact person for the Gambling Research Lab. Dr. Harrigan's present research focuses on promoting healthier gambling by developing methods to make gamblers aware of their statistical odds.