Anabel's E-learning and Digital Cultures site » games http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/anabeld part of the MSc in E-learning at the University of Edinburgh Sun, 07 Apr 2013 17:56:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Online Worlds in real Worlds http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/anabeld/2013/01/09/e-learning-and-digital-culture/ http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/anabeld/2013/01/09/e-learning-and-digital-culture/#comments Wed, 09 Jan 2013 20:50:05 +0000 Anabel Drought http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/anabeld/?p=5 Totally excited – World of Warcraft theme park in China – Dark Disneyland

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Video games have become so much a part of peoples lives, that they have been made actual world at this theme park. It would be great to see how this works out, to find what gamers think of the theme park? Is it really representative of the gaming experience or is it just tokenism. I think it will struggle to recreate the immersive environment of the game because of the distraction of commerce and real life needs and desires. The relationship between players / friend groups will be very difficult to recreate and real life relationships would create a further level of distraction. It’s a nice idea and a great marketing tool to make more money!

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