{"id":154,"date":"2013-03-08T08:46:47","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T16:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/sgaballah\/?p=154"},"modified":"2013-03-08T09:15:56","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T17:15:56","slug":"a-gaming-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/sgaballah\/2013\/03\/08\/a-gaming-community\/","title":{"rendered":"A Gaming Evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"download\"<\/a>Playing video games has become so\u00a0intertwined with our society that some people have a hard time distinguishing between truth and virtual worlds. However this isn’t\u00a0necessarily a bad thing. Imagine being able to reach a student going through a hard time, through a video game, or teaching others how to react to a situation through a video game. This seems to be the next big thing that we have yet to utilize. Children and adults play video games, why not use that outlet to get across educational messages and experiences.\u00a0Ian Bogost’s, “Rhetoric of Video Games” begins by explaining how playing the game Animal Crossing Community can show somebody how to be apart of a community and care for it.<\/p>\n

“Animal Crossing is a game about everyday life in a small town. It is a game about customizing\u00a0and caring for an environment. It is a game about making friends and about collecting insects.But Animal Crossing is also a game about long-term debt. It is a game about the repetition of\u00a0mundane work necessary to support contemporary material property ideals. It is a game about\u00a0the bittersweet consequences of acquiring goods and keeping up with the Joneses.”<\/p>\n

A game with those kinds of values could be used to help rehabilitate or encourage a social practice with those who may lack a sense of social confidence. Bogost reiterates this by discussing how Animal Crossing could contribute to a social activity,<\/p>\n

“4\u00a0In this sense, the people who play video games\u00a0develop values, strategies, and approaches to the practice of play itself. For example, a large\u00a0group of Animal Crossing players contribute to an online community called Animal Crossing\u00a0<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em>Community (ACC for short) to discuss the game, share things they\u2019ve made, \ufb01nd strategies,\u00a0<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em>or look up the value of different \ufb01sh, insects, or furniture.5\u00a0<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em>Within this community, as in\u00a0<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em>all communities, cultural values develop, both by design and by evolution. For example,\u00a0<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em>ACC offers players the option of \u201cgetting adopted.\u201d A veteran \u201cScout\u201d is assigned to a new\u00a0<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em>member as a \u201cfoster buddy\u201d to help the newbie \u201clearn the ropes of ACC . . . They\u2019ll also help\u00a0<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em>you with any of your Animal Crossing questions, and may even give you a free item as a\u00a0<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em>welcoming gift!\u201d6\u00a0<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em>Venues like ACC show that video game play is a cultural activity”<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

In one way gaming could be used as a way to reintroduce a soldier into the everyday life in his or her community, like a controlled\u00a0environment that the solider could rely on to\u00a0re acclimate him or her to civilian life. Or even be used to monitor their psychological progress once back in their communities. \u00a0Another way gaming could be used is in our classrooms. We know that video games are used in almost every household, now why not have assigned home work through video games that could be further discussed in the classroom, I can see how such a practice might be a hard transition from the traditional way of thinking about school work, however we need to evolve with the children and reach them by striking their interest.<\/p>\n

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