2011
Head to Fountain Square Mall Today
by Kevin Makice
Today is the final day of our Wisdom of Play events. Four community engagement projects wrap up in the post-TEDx Bloomington afterglow. (For more on that event, spend some time browsing through the #tedxbtown Twitter stream.)
At Fountain Square Mall, from noon until about 5p, four local game developers have their recent work on display:
Wordbots—Race against the machines, guess the secret words, and advance real-world cognitive science research in this fast-paced word game. Presented by Gabriel Recchia, Indiana University Cognitive Computing Laboratory and Transformative Gaming & Simulation
Campus Craft—A serious game designed to educate, engage, entertain and empower college students in dealing with common health-related issues they face during their years in college. Presented by Pete Grogg, WisdomTools’ Health Games
AstroEngineer: Moon Rover™—AstroEngineer is designed to help students learn to solve problems like an engineer in the context of building Moon rovers to solve various challenges. Presented by Sonny Kirkley, WisdomTools, Inc.
San*Go Seasons—A word creation game that helps build the player’s vocabulary and
strategy skills. Presented by Nathan Mishler, Studio Cypher
Each game is in it’s own old-style arcade facade and is motivated by some learning opportunity. It is worth spending some time in the mall today.
Also making its final appearance this month is Our Infinite Canvas, the community storytelling project. Panels collected from the boards will be visible online at http://ourinfinitecanvas.com.
Finally, the “Playing With Wisdom” unconference takes place today from noon to 3p at Sproutbox. Doors open at 11:30a, and the first 57 people will get a t-shirt made by local artists as part of the Human Puzzle project. There are four complete 10-piece puzzles and 17 individual shirts
