We’re Super-Empowered Hopeful Individuals
Since you're here I suppose you're a gamer of some sort. Maybe even one that plays online?
Either way; you play games.
And you know what? You're great! You can solve the worlds problems.
In a TED-talk by Jane McGonigal, a researcher and game designer, she explains how we're super people. Apparently, I'm a virtuoso. I like that. Someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field. I wonder what my field is?
http://www.ted.com/talks/jane_mcgonigal_gaming_can_make_a_better_world.html (25/3/2010)
Games like World of Warcraft give players the means to save worlds, and incentive to learn the habits of heroes. What if we could harness this gamer power to solve real-world problems? Jane McGonigal says we can, and explains how.
- TED.com
Even if she might seem a bit "out there" and overly optimistic at times. I do agree with her as it has long been a fact that we do learn stuff from games.
The clip is 20min long and it'll make you feel good about yourself. TED always beat random YouTube:ing.
Video Games and the Female Audience
Daniel Floyd, character animator from Animation Mentor (http://www.animationmentor.com/) has a serie on YouTube about Video Games.
The latest episode "Video Games and the Female Audience" is a must see, as I think it's really clever and does bring up some really valid points as how to handle the current situation.
Episode six in my series of video "lectures," with special guest star: Gamasutra's Leigh Alexander! I can be reached at floydo_animation at yahoo dot com. You can reach Leigh at leighalexander1 at gmail dot com.
- kirithem on YouTube
Direct link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8ZVZRsy8N8
User profile: http://www.youtube.com/user/kirithem
All URL's from 30/6/2009.
The female gamers are here and I agree with Daniel and Leigh; Let's try our best and not scare 'em off.














