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Game Friday: Spore, Self-Expression, and the Pitfalls of Creating Your Own Universe

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Games are already highly participatory, but over the last few years game designers have been giving players more control over the gameworld and experience. Spore was released in September of 2008 to huge sales expectations. Spore is a chemistry set without instructions, and only some of us are motivated to invent our own experiments.

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Wikis: What, When, Why

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What's a wiki? Wikis are websites that are extremely easy for anyone (even you!) Its success can distort understanding of what makes a wiki work. After all, if Wikipedia could succeed as a collaborative documentation of well, everything, isn't your specific wiki bound to thrive as well? But wikis are a very specific tool.

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