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	Emergent gameplay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Emergent gameplay is the creative use of a game in ways unexpected by the game designer's original intent.
		Emergent play can either be totally outside the game (machinima) or have a direct impact on the gameplay (see "game currency trading" below).
		Emergent play usually involves leveraging one or more of these components.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Emergent_gameplay (911 words)

	Emergence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		One reason why emergent behaviour is hard to predict is that the number of interactions between components of a system increases combinatorially with the number of components, thus potentially allowing for many new and subtle types of behaviour to emerge.
		The hallmarks of an emergent concept, as opposed to other memes (urban myths, or viruses of the mind) are that EC are increasingly accepted as truth or possibility, based upon other empirical or anecdotal evidence in the mind of the believer or society (in its subsets) as a whole.
		Emergent structures are a favorite strategy found in many animal groups: colonies of ants, piles of termites, swarms of bees, flocks of birds, herds of mammals, shoals/schools of fish, and packs of wolves.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Emergent (3111 words)

	Game Studies Seminar: Course Objectives
		Emergent play can be thought of as creating something in spite of a limited set of rules--creativity within (or in spite of) constraint.
		Learning by playing is a concept describing the educational value of play as a part of informal learning.
		An object that is played with, which may have an intended use, but does not necessarily have rules or a predetermined endpoint of play.
	art.berkeley.edu /coursework/niemeyer/courses/fs240_2005/encyclopedia (831 words)

	Emergent Properties
		The existence of emergent qualities thus described is something to be noted, as some would say, under the compulsion of brute empirical fact, or, as I should prefer to say in less harsh terms, to be accepted with the “natural piety” of the investigator.
		Predictive: Emergent properties are systemic features of complex systems which could not be predicted (practically speaking; or for any finite knower; or for even an ideal knower) from the standpoint of a pre-emergent stage, despite a thorough knowledge of the features of, and laws governing, their parts.
		Do emergent features necessarily appear in all systems attaining a requisite level of complexity, or is this at best a contingent fact?) Nor does he indicate a position on the nature of causation itself, an issue that is crucial to understanding what the nonsupervenience of causal powers amounts to.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/properties-emergent (8648 words)

	Emergence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		One reason why emergent behaviour occurs is that the number of interactions between components of a system increases combinatorially with the number of components, Thus potentially allowing for many new and subtle types of behaviour to emerge.
		Thus, emergent phenomena can demonstrate why a reductionistic physical theory, viewing all matter in terms of its component parts, which in turn obey a relatively small number of laws, can hope to model complex objects such as living beings.
		However, by the same token, emergent phenomena serve to caution against greedy reductionism, because the microscopic explanation of an emergent phenomenon may be too complicated or "low-level" to be of any practical use.
	emergence.iqnaut.net (2496 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Although most definitions of emergent literacy acknowledge that it begins very early in life, little is known about the development of emergent literacy in infants and toddlers, with or without disabilities.
		Emergent literacy is the developmental process that begins at birth whereby children acquire the foundation for reading and writing or literacy.
		Session 5: Interventions to Facilitate Emergent Literacy Because emergent literacy provides the foundation for literacy and because literacy is essential for independence and employment, it is an important functional goal for young children with disabilities.
	www.fpg.unc.edu /~EDIN/update_2005/Module_Updates/CEL_ModuleOverview.doc (1754 words)

	Minimizing Repetitive Play in Action Games
		Therefore Emergent game play is basically when you have a global set of rules, but these rules can interact with each other in a wide variety of different ways.
		Emergent play can be continually rewarding for the player and help minimize repetition because you’re able to do so many different things.
		In playing the flinch game, you try to get your friend to flinch, by pretending to hit him, and in order to see what his reaction is. The reaction to your friend trying to hit you is classical conditioning.
	www-rcf.usc.edu /~anthonyb/gaming/articles/minimizing_repetitive_play.htm (8247 words)

	miscellany is the largest category: The End of Things
		Emergent games, however, arguably are not - they may create narratives through their play, just as we might create a narrative about our walk to the park, our conversation with the homeless man we met there, or how we tripped and fell into a puddle on the way home.
		These two overall types, emergent and progressive, are loosely defined by both the end state for the completed game, and the process by which a player or players achieve that end state.
		While emergent games provide a series of game states (a shuffled deck of cards, an arrangement on the board, a set of characters or pieces) and a set of rules, the play emerges from any myriad potential combinations.
	misc.wordherders.net /archives/006054.html (1930 words)

	IGDA Forums - Types of emergent gameplay
		Explorative emergent gameplay: often a quirk in level design, this type of trick allows the player to explore a part of the game that was presumably assumed inaccessible by the designers.
		I refer to intentional emergent gameplay, which seems to be the object of the presentation you linked, as "open-ended design." I would love to be corrected if there is a better term for what I am trying to describe.
		Emergent gameplay practices should be categorized only by taking into account their interaction with the game mechanics, not with each other.
	www.igda.org /Forums/showthread.php?postid=115634 (1645 words)

	The Whole Child - For Early Care Providers - Let's Talk About It
		The preschool years play a vital role in laying the foundation of skills on which future literacy is built.
		Emergent literacy means that, in order to learn the arts of reading and writing, young children must first acquire many foundation concepts and strategies that will help literacy emerge.
		An emergent literacy program includes setting up the environment and activities to inspire an appreciation for words, storytelling and communication in all their forms.
	www.pbs.org /wholechild/providers/talk.html (1126 words)

	emergent-us (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Emergent seeks to be a Generative Friendship that creates spaces and places of new interactions, new hopes, new thinking, and new ways of being in the world.
		Emergent Village was delighted to be a sponsor of this event, and I was equally delighted to be there as both a part of Emergent and a New Monastic community.
		Also representing Emergent Village were Ryan and Holly Sharp, who had just come from the EV organizing group meeting in Minnesota.
	emergent-us.typepad.com (2830 words)

	EDU 371 Task 4 Performance Outcomes
		Candidates will collaboratively design a themed play center for preschool or kindergarten children that is based on emergent literacy theory and includes literacy tools and props.
		Unacceptable:The play center does not contain all the components listed in the assignment;or the quality of the presentation is poor; or the understanding of emergent literacy is less than good.
		The data show that students are prepared to assess performance of emergent readers--both individuals and groups, to plan for instruction in both formal and integrated approaches, and to communicate with families about literacy development.
	www.cortland.edu /ncatedata/edu371task4.htm (413 words)

	flipcode - Transformative Play (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		On one hand you have emergent play which show the evolution of the play through unexpected behavior that was possibly unintended by the game creators.
		Likewise transformative play is achieved due to the unexpected behavior of emergent play.
		I think the vampire notion can be compared to playing the game with red instead of blue hair, yes it is different and changes the playing aspect but whoop de doo, its still the same game with a slightly tweaked exprerience.
	www.flipcode.com /cgi-bin/fcarticles.cgi?show=64683 (4262 words)

	USC Interactive Media Division - Home
		Emergent is a word used to describe a phenomenon that simple rules creates complex and unpredictable result.
		Each player seems to be playing a game of their own, with the only interaction stemming from the direct actions of other players on each respective board.
		When we played it in class, there was a lot of laughter and fun competition as each player tried to not only maximize their score but also to out do the other players by creating exciting words.
	interactive.usc.edu /courses/2005_fall/ctin-482-designing_.php (13198 words)

	Complexity International
		Underlying many kinds of emergent behavior in biology are the critical changes in connectivity that occur, as links increase between the elements of a system.
		It is sufficient for connectivity in the landscape to be reduced to a level where communication between population elements is low enough to produce environmental "patches" for which the level of communication between patches is substantially lower than communication within each patch.
		Besides playing a role in evolution, the fragmentation of a landscape into isolated environmental patches has severe implications for biodiversity.
	www.complexity.org.au /ci/vol01/green01/html (4113 words)

	TeacherSource . PreK-2 . The Importance of Dramatic Play \| PBS
		Play is enjoyable for all but often underestimated for its unique way of positively influencing physical, cognitive, and psychosocial development.
		Her study was one of the first that began to tutor low socioeconomic children to play in hopes that they would make academic progress.
		She found children who were unsuccessful with sociodramatic play tended to have parents with little or no formal education.
	www.pbs.org /teachersource/prek2/issues/804issue.shtm (808 words)

	emergent-us: Report From Emergent Summit - Part 1 of 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Jones said, “I wholeheartedly believe Emergent will play a catalytic and generative role in the life of the American Church for years to come.” The appointment of Jones is recognition of the need for coordination of the vast volunteer efforts of Emergent.
		The Emergent "Conversation" has more than its share of "pissed off," "arrogant," "why couldn't it be me, instead of Tony," "whiners." Some of us need to take a deep breath and realize the future of the COSMOS is not in jeopardy.
		My excitement and hope for emergent is the order or rule you have established that does frame the expectations of how we each faithfully engage God and lovingly engage one another, and responsibly/generously engage the work of God all around us.
	emergent-us.typepad.com /emergentus/2005/06/report_from_eme.html (6591 words)

	Musings and Mental Meanderings » Blog Archive » Freeform rocks: don’t let the rules rule (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		One of the really great things that granting authority to the rules-text does for play is that, in a sense, it gives authority to a person who is not a member of your play group.
		One of the big things that freeform play does for you is that, since you are not ceding authority to an inflexible game text, you are able to evaluate where authority should be distributed in real time.
		The group must have a set of play goals that is compatible, and they must have at least an intuitive understanding of what those goals are and how best to achieve them.
	www.thesmerf.com /blog/26-freeform-rocks-dont-let-the-rules-rule (1058 words)

	Power-Up Games Conference (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		A screening of a work in progress towards a video essay examining continuities in, and transformations of, children's culture and play through computer games.
		A number of circuits of signification and playful activity will be identified: between game rules and frameworks and emergent, exploratory play in the computer game; and between play with simulated action / space and play between children in actual space; between play with virtual toys and play with actual toys; between software and bodies.
		The video essay will question conceptual oppositions between game and player, rule-based and emergent play, cyberspace and everyday space, old media and new media, subjects and objects.
	www.milgramreenactment.org /powerup/pages/abstracts_seth.html (105 words)

	Emergence
		One possible graphical view of the principle of emergence as described in Roger Lewin's book about "Complexity - Life at the Edge of Chaos", Figure 10, page 189.
		The shape and behaviour of a flock of birds or school of fish are also good examples.
		The queen does not give direct orders and does not tell the ants what to do.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/e/em/emergence.html (2844 words)

	Cooperative Children's Center
		They are actively motivated learners, studying the world through their play (hence the phrase, "children learn through play").
		Some current interests we have been incorporating almost daily are playing chase and tag games (oh the adrenaline rush and excitement!), we often play games with theses themes in the gym and hallway.Ý Animals are a huge interest.
		Star roomers love re-enacting a favorite story (gingerbread baby cookie game), playing with play dough or gak (small motor, pre-writing muscles are engaged during this activity), digging in the dirt and sand when outside.
	www.coopchild.org /emergent.htm (1371 words)

	Game Engine Anatomy 101, Part X (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		There is a buzzword called "emergent game play" that should be dealt with here.
		Emergent game play is essentially the creating of rules the game will adhere to, that will result in situations that the game programmer couldn't foresee.
		It is possible to blend the rules-based, emergent game play approach with an FPS environment.
	www.extremetech.com /article2/0,3973,1154585,00.asp (677 words)

	Table of contents for Play=learning
		Standards, Science, and the Role of Play in Early Literacy Education James F. Christie Kathleen A. Roskos 5.
		Narrative play and emergent literacy: Storytelling and story-acting meets journal writing Ageliki Nicolopoulou Judith McDowell Carolyn Brockmeyer 8.
		Mathematical play and playful mathematics: A guide for early education Herbert P. Ginsburg MEDIA AND COMPUTERS 9.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/toc/ecip0519/2005027315.html (303 words)

	80186 THE PLAY BASED CURRICULUM
		Children's emergent literacy, numeracy, social, physical and creative skills can all be enhanced in creative early childhood settings which provide rich and varied opportunities for play.
		This unit will consider an number of theories about play in the curriculum including learning theory and will introduce students to ways of enhancing children's play, especially in the areas of emergent literacy, numeracy, in science, social science, art and music.
		Students will be asked to consider the nature of a variety of early childhood programs and their relationship to play.
	www.usq.edu.au /unit-1998/fullspec/80186s3x.htm (409 words)

	Emergent Play - Serious workshop facilitators
		Our diverse group of people is united by a profound interest in the field of workshop facilitation.
		In close co-operation with our partners, we create spaces for serious play in organisations.
		This interpersonal process opens up possibilities for people to construct and explore fresh opportunities for organisational improvements, coherence and trust.
	www.emergentplay.nl (127 words)

	[Primetime Adventures] Premise: Established vs. Emergent? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		I love it and would love to play it sometime (although given the paucity of gamers in my area and the tastes of those I've found, I feel though that won't happen for another oh, six to twelve months).
		I've ever played any game with a specifically narrative ruleset; from memory, all of the games I've ever participated have either been Gamist (probably with a Sim drift, I think) or Sim.
		In the games I've played that are specifically designed to support narrativist play, there is always a shared situation or "boundary" and a "axis" around which the important player choices rotate.
	www.indie-rpgs.com /forum/index.php?t=15599 (3836 words)

	Play = Learning - Book Information
		Standards, Science, and the Role of Play in Early Literacy Education [ PDF ]
		Narrative play and emergent literacy: Storytelling and story-acting meets journal writing [ PDF ]
		Mathematical play and playful mathematics: A guide for early education [ PDF ]
	udel.edu /~roberta/play/book.html (196 words)

	ReadWriteThink: Web Resources
		Teachers are encouraged to use the variety of free mini-journals to encourage students to begin keeping a science journal.
		The resource for units on the Bard's plays, the Folger Library site includes lesson plans and materials for kids and families as well as online exhibits of multimedia material related to Shakespeare and his writings.
		Designed for the emergent reader, the website has interactive books and rhyming word family games that teach phonemic awareness, comprehension, vocabulary building, and spelling skills.
	www.readwritethink.org /resources (7282 words)

	ebrINFO: contributors
		RICHARD R. is an associate professor of history at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
		He is the author of two books on sport and play in American fiction and recently passed himself off as the "as told to" guy in a memoir by former Chicago Bulls star Chet Walker.
		Five of his plays have been produced Off-Off-Broadway, and Fragments of the Third Planet received its European Premiere last year in Germany.
	www.altx.com /ebr/info/contribs/contribs.htm (8677 words)

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