Gabe Newell's Games for Learning institute's keynote

[Miya]

Gabe newell is currently having a keynote right now

[URL]http://g4li.org/?news=gabe-newell-keynote-for-2nd-annual-games-for-learning-day-at-g4c[/URL]

[quote]As part of the 8th Annual[URL="http://gamesforchange.org/festival2011/"]Games for Change Festival[/URL], G4LI will be hosting it’s 2nd annual Games for Learning Day on [B] [URL="http://gamesforchange.org/festival2011/schedule/"]Wednesday, June 22[/URL][/B] bringing together the leading thinkers and researchers in the area of games for learning. It will be a full day of idea exchange and exploration including papers on game research, “microtalks” about research and assessment, games for learning and the future of games for learning, and game play sessions.

We are excited to announce that our Featured Keynote speaker on June 22 will be Gabe Newell.
[/quote]

Kotaku is liveblogging right now:

[URL]http://kotaku.com/5814405/liveblogging-whatever-smart-stuff-gabe-newell-has-to-say-today[/URL]

EDIT:

Vimeo of whole confrence

[video=vimeo;25780504]http://vimeo.com/25780504[/video]

[barttool]

dis gon b good.

any live stream?

[Miya]

[QUOTE=barttool;30633229]dis gon b good.

any live stream?[/QUOTE]

not that i know of

[dogchow33]

So let me get this straight, Valve is looking into the area of educational games? The only thing I picture is something like Typer Shark, that game was my childhood.

[krakadict]

half life with [I]real[/I] science

[TheTailor25]

10:05
StephenTotilo:
He's queuing up a trailer to give people a sense of the game

Suddenly, Episode 3 trailer.

[i_speel_good]

The wait for Ep3 is teaching gamers values such as patience and anger management.

[barttool]

he's talking about portal 2 and how that's a comercially successful "educational" game.

[Miya]

Apparently 3 million copies of portal 2 sold (Unknown if he's talking about a specific console or all of them)

[url]http://www.joystiq.com/2011/06/22/newell-portal-2-has-sold-3-million-copies-since-launch/[/url]

[TheCactusman]

[QUOTE]StephenTotilo: So Gabe decided to try to be a Gold Farmer in WoW
StephenTotilo: He made $20/hour
StephenTotilo: Per captia GDP in WoW is $2800 or so, he thinks.[/QUOTE]
What?

[Miya]

[quote]
StephenTotilo:
So Gabe decided to try to be a Gold Farmer in WoW
StephenTotilo:
He made $20/hour
[/quote]

Gabe you so silly

[editline]22nd June 2011[/editline]

[quote]Everyone out there wants to make giant penises (nervous laughter from the audience)[/quote]

[editline]22nd June 2011[/editline]

picture of gay ben with the portal 2 kid trailer behind him

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/EKqzd.jpg[/IMG]

[editline]22nd June 2011[/editline]

[quote]StephenTotilo: Gabe thinks that most of the software isn't very good
StephenTotilo: He hates that people who make educational games use that as an excuse that they're not working as hard as people who make commercial software[/quote]

[***zer0***]

Holy shit that's a huge pic on the site.

[quote][img]http://g4li.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Gabe_011.jpg[/img][/quote]

:geno:

[crumbleshake]

[QUOTE]10:46 StephenTotilo:
Question: WHen does Half Life Episode 3 comes out?
10:46 StephenTotilo:
Gabe: if you know enough to ask the question, you know enough what the answer is
[/QUOTE]

Fuck.

[Miya]

-see above-

[crumbleshake]

It's over. No announcement. Damn.

[***zer0***]

Well that sucked.

[Miya]

[QUOTE=CrumbleShake;30634381]It's over. No announcement. Damn.[/QUOTE]
he was talking about education why would there be a game announcement

[crumbleshake]

[QUOTE=Wii60;30634422]he was talking about education why would there be a game announcement[/QUOTE]

I pretty much go wild at anything with Gabe Newell for a Half Life sequel and lose all common sense.

[Talara]

[QUOTE=***zer0***;30634399]Well that sucked.[/QUOTE]

I dunno. As a researcher in exactly this field, it was interesting to see Gabe mention certain things. It appears that he has done his homework. The point he made about Bond Traders as virtual workers is a really strong point, as well as gaming as a strong force for socialization and self-identification. I'm excited to see how Valve approaches educational aspects of games.

[Miya]

If anyone is still interested in this, they uploaded the whole entire thing on vimeo

[video=vimeo;25780504]http://vimeo.com/25780504[/video]