| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
ggrobot Elite Member

Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 19224
|
Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2012 9:54 pm Post subject: Valve Believes Games Can Help Education [33164] |
|
|
ock, Paper, Shotgun has an interesting article about why Valve believes games can help education. Here\'s an excerpt:
The first time I ever played Portal was damn near magical. Each room I walked into held promise of some diabolical new assault on both my brain and the laws of physics, but I made them look like chil
Read more...
Source: GGMania headlines
GGMania.com - Daily Gaming and Tech news |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
Koogle Elite Member

Joined: 08 Jun 2004 Posts: 851
|
Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 8:09 am Post subject: |
|
|
| yeh thats nice, whatev.. where is half life 3? |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
Tom Elite Member


Joined: 07 Jun 2004 Posts: 1769
|
Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 8:22 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Oh geez HL3... man when desperation kicks in eh? LOL! I couldn't give a shit about HL3 myself. Same shit in a different skin. |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
Stumpus Elite Member

Joined: 11 Jun 2004 Posts: 1311 Location: The Dark Side of Mars
|
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 2:54 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Wake up Valve. Like Jane's, DID had been making military simulations to train Grunts and pilots when the first Gulf war kicked off. That's education.Couple that with incredible machines from eons ago and you have physics along with ballistics. Gt academy teaches professional driving and on it goes. Portal was more about illusion rather than exceptional gameplay dealing with real world environments.
Want to go down that route; how about Quake in space and portals? _________________ "Hackers and DRM are Turning Gaming into a Nightmarish Clusterfuck" |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
|