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Class Objective:Produce a

game

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Entertaining games

• Video games, console games, computer games, games

• Sims, shooters, RPGs, scrollers, FPS, RTSs, …

• Board games, gambling, sports

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• 10,000 hours Video Games• 250,000 emails• 10,000 hours on cell phones• 20,000 hours TV (incl. MTV)• 500,000 commercials

© 2004 Marc Prensky

• < 5000 hours book reading© 2004 Marc Prensky

Gamer Statistics

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Serious Games:

Art

Education

Military

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The Office of Naval Research has The Office of Naval Research has funded 500K for Game AI funded 500K for Game AI

development at the Evolutionary development at the Evolutionary Computing Systems Lab (ECSL) Computing Systems Lab (ECSL)

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© 2004 Marc Prensky

Gamers among us(Mark Prensky: Serious Gamer)

© 2004 Marc Prensky

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Are you ready to produce?Are you ready to produce?