Sept. 2, 2016 Update Adding a few recent finds along these lines of 'putting emotion into game play' like "Shelter, Paws" and other empathy based critter care games to edge towards seeding compassion for all creatures great and small caring for wolf pups and badger babies, instead of fantasy Pokemon Go creations. Also, here's a recently funded Kickstarter called Junior … [Read more...]
Tilt World’s Nicole Lazzaro (Interview) Putting Emotion Into Game Play
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Repower America: A Child + Building Blocks = Censorship?
This morning I received a note from the Alliance for Climate Protection's "we can solve it" climate crisis campaign with a chilling opener: “Did you notice the ads after last night's presidential debate? ABC had Chevron. CBS had Exxon. CNN had the coal lobby. But you know what happened last week? ABC refused to run our Repower America ad -- the ad that takes on this … [Read more...]
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