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Separation of Game and State

February 2nd, 2010
Posted in Public Relations . Researcher Updates
By Evan Barnett

Cultural mannerisms, taboos, and languages are going to be some of the most difficult obstacles to overcome. By outsourcing tool development (such as translation tools) to outside companies, it may help solve the age old problem of the language barrier. In addition, we must be careful the "game culture" does not supersede the outside world's cultures, lest it make our initiative irrelevant[ READ MORE ]

Who are YOU supposed to be?

January 22nd, 2010
Posted in Researcher Updates
By Evan Barnett

My name is Evan Barnett, one of the researchers at WorldPlay. My goals thus far are to explore the potential for FPS games to harbor significant amount of meaningful cross-cultural interaction, to investigate how gamer "class" (hardcore vs. casual, etc) affects interest in transnational interaction, and how gaming communities could possibly help promote interaction between cultures[ READ MORE ]

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