Tag: Gaming
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Gaming, Literacy and attention spans
The news that the old gaming society in DCU, STOCS, is to be merged with the computer games society because of falling membership is disappointing – as people have pointed out, college societies often suffer periods of decline. Coincidentally, this merger is almost exactly what is happening to the gaming group in Alex’ school, which…
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Irish National Diplomacy Championships
The 2008 Diplomacy national were held at Leprecon XXIX last weekend, with Emmanuel Du Pontavice and Troy O’Donoghue coming out as deserving winners by virtue of a rock solid alliance in the game on Saturday. Diplomacy, for those who don’t know it, is a classic boardgame of international diplomacy starting in 1900. The rules are…
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Everything I know about Astrophysics I learned from gaming…
Gaelcon last weekend gave me a chance to catch up on old friends, play a few games and hear some news – including a new version of an old Sci-Fi game that is being written, which turned my mind to the use of SF Roleplaying games as tools for teaching science. There is quite a…
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War, State, Society Game
I’m looking again at some sort of simulation game framework for my War, State and Society course which I teach in the spring semester. It needs to be simple so students grasp it quickly, but easily scalable from tactics to grand strategy. It also needs to allow me to set up short scenarios which are…
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BoruCon 2007
Did I mention I am organising BoruCon, the Irish National Diplomacy Championships, down in UCC next weekend (Sept 22nd-23rd 2007), about which there is a page at mikecosgrave.com and about which you can email me at UCC.
