Owen

Components:
Soccer field
2 teams, 11 players each
2 balls
2 referess

Rules:
The gmae is played according to the basic rules of soccer, except for the extra ball.

Object:
To score goals into the opposing team's goal.

Duration:
Two 30-minute halves.

Note:
In this game the player's chances of touching the ball are increased, and his/her movement is faster. He/she quickly abandons all familiar strategies, reacting to the new possibilities.

History:
First played in Lod, Israel, February 1996.

From Frieze magazine:

"Machinima, most usefully defined as, "moviemaking within a real-time 3d virtual environment', has its origins in the mid=1990s, when first person shooters such as Quake and Unreal started to include tools that let gamers record live in-game footage as they played."

http://www.machinima.com/films.php?id=275

Sims 2 - User movies

The Awaking: http://youtube.com/watch?v=t_KibtJ6400

The Movies (Preview)
A game that simulates Hollywood movie making in the 1920s.

This article, "The Principlas of Play," from Metropolis September 2006, asks the question: "can game designers reach a generation of students reared on technology and resistant to traditional methods of teaching?" The article is primarly about "Game Designer," a innovative educationally aimed game now in the works. The game provides an engaging and intutive structure for the player to design their own games. The article goes on to make a through argument for good games as essential educational tools. While the popular sentimant that "gaming is the mindless, time-wasting pastime of a nihilistic generation" is in general accurate. The argument is not that video games are good teachers, but that playing video games is often good learning.