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November 02, 2005 (Wednesday)

Simulation and Play [Meeting]

In-class: "The Sims 2"
In-class demonstrations:

• Using Internet-Based Images in your Segue Site (link to ATLAS demo)
  
• Using Images you Created Yourself, see section 4b in the Segue Getting Started Handout (link to ATLAS PDF, 4 pages)

Games as the Play of Simulation [Online Class Reader]

New "free" outside reading on simulation added to address questions:

OPTIONAL: Salen, K. & Zimmerman, E. (2004). "Games as the Play of Simulation." From K. Salen & E. Zimmerman, Rules of Play, pp. 421-458. MIT Press.
Download this reading. [Password protected: use your UIUC Active Directory Password for access.]

The Triumph of Tinkering [Online Class Reader]

Turkle, S. (1995). The Triumph of Tinkering. In S. Turkle, Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet (pp. 50-73). New York: Simon & Schuster.
Download this reading. [Password protected: use your UIUC Active Directory Password for access.]

The Semiotics of SimCity [Web Reading]

The projects page has been updated [Announcement]

The panel of judges has been appointed [Announcement]

The Illustrated Guide to Commenting on Blogs [Help/Handout]

Your tenth blog post is due 11/07 [Announcement]

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