Hi Damien, I agree with that. Many games have hidden educational purposes even though they may not be obvious. Take STFC for example. On the surface it is a game based in the Trek universe and your objective is to destroy a fleet three times your size. Many are only now realising it is something like a game of chess. You have to learn how to place your ships, pieces, just so or end up the loser. The educational value therefore comes in learning to strategise and plan several moves ahead of your advorsary. Such people who can do that are good chess, Go, and checker players as they often need to analise a situation speculate all the possabilities of the given situation and then take action to be ahead of the adversary's own game plan. In more day to day practical terms those skills might help you well in business when you might be called upon to direct a companies course of action against the competetion, make you a better manager or planner, or help you in strategies in general. All because the key to any success in life is antisipation of operturnities. Lets face the truth men like Bill Gates didn't suddenly go from college dropout to Billioneer over night for being stupid or passing up once in a life time opertunities. The guy sometime after dropping out of college found out IBM was looking for an os to put on the up and coming home PC computers. He looked around and found a totally unknown privately owned company making such an os called QDOS. The company was failing Bill Gates baught it out, named it Microsoft, and the os he updated and sold to IBM as PC Dos 1.0. All from his garage as I am told. Since IBM had exclusive rights to PC Dos other emerging clones Compaq, HP, etc needed the same sort of dos Microsoft once again sold the Dos product to them under the Microsoft or MS Dos logo. It was a fortune waiting to happen. Had each computer company had it's own os Microsoft might not have grown as fast, and software would not have been very portible to every companies brand of PC. Since Microsoft managed to position themselves as the os provider for every major platform than the server and Apple markets small and large companies designed for PC Dos and MS Dos platforms which were the same except in name only, and Microsoft became the company Compaq, HP, IBM, and everyone else could not live without. Since the need was so great any time Microsoft came out with an os the companies upgraded as well and from MS Dos 1.0 to Windows Vista that drive and aid from each company put Microsoft from little known to the most well known software manufacturer world wide in only a couple of years. From Bill Gates garage home business to office buildings.
damien c. sadler - head of x-sight interactive wrote: > all games are educational in some way. > > regards, > > damien > _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
