Speakers at #rugame2010 seminar at NSW State Library 23rd June

Our first speaker on Wed 23rd June at the NSW State Library's seminar RU GAME: Games and Public Libraries, was Gary Hayes. He has worked on countless of projects overseas as well as here in Australia and developed numerous works, such as online Social Virtual worlds as well as Augmented and Alternate Reality productions. His presentation was incredible with the amount of information as to how the world was incorporating games into business and everyday life with various formats. Below is his slide presentation. Try some of the links in these slides. You will be amazed! Microsoft's Kinect will revolutionize gaming along with Augmented Reality Games (PSP article - Äugmented Reality is Next Big Thing in Gaming)

RU Game? Games & Public Libraries

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#rugame2010 - NSW State Library Online seminar in World of Warcraft

It has been a packed 2 day "feast of information and fun" at the NSW State Library. On Wed 23rd June 2010 the first part of the seminar was held at the Metcalfe, hearing wonderful diverse speakers on the topic of gaming and games in public libraries.

The second part of the conference on Thursday 24th June was held in the largest MMOG ( massively multiplayer online game ) in the world which is "World of Warcraft". Over 68 million players estimated to play this game which is a conservative figure given by one of the speakers on the Wednesday seminar which was Huon Longman, a PhD student from Queensland University of Technology who spoke of the value of online relationships in World of Warcraft (WoW).

Here is my WoW toon

and my character's name

is

Wanglibris

Here is a screenshot

of participants at the online seminar

 

The above screenshot was taken by Liz Danforth

Occupation: Professional eclectic -- freelance writer, illustrator, librarian, and gaming advocate.

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