Google Tech Talk (more info below)
November 10, 2011

Presented by Jesse Schell.

ABSTRACT

In the 21st century, it turns out that the principles for designing videogames have become the principles for designing everything. In this talk, Jesse explains some of the surprising consequences of the new world of pleasure-based design.

About the Speaker:

Jesse is the CEO of Schell Games, the largest game studio in Pennsylvania. He also is a member of the faculty at the Carnegie Mellon University Entertainment Technology Center. Jesse has worked on a wide variety of innovative game and simulation projects, but he is best known for his award winning book The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses and for Beyond Facebook, a talk at the 2010 DICE Summit where he described a future where games and life become indistinguishable. He is a former chair of the International Game Developers Association, and in 2004 he was named one of the world’s Top 100 Young Innovators by MIT Technology Review. Before starting his own company, Jesse was the Creative Director of the Walt Disney Imagineering Virtual Reality Studio, which helped to develop interactive theme park attractions as well as Toontown Online, the first massively multiplayer game for children. Before that, he worked as writer, director, performer, juggler, comedian, and circus artist for both Freihofer’s Mime Circus and the Juggler’s Guild.

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2 Player Games

Oshi $10

Perry Rhodan $12

6ft Folding banquet tables perfect for gaming. Scratched needs table cloths. $15 each $25 for pair. 2 Available immediatley. Additional available January 31st.

15 Picture frames various sizes. Brown. $50 some missing glass.

4 small 4×6, 8 medium, 3 large.

Painting #1:

Painting #2:

NICE 5 Shelf locking cabinets. good materials were $250 each new. Sacrificing $75  a piece or buy all 5 for $250!

HINT: Click on picture to enlarge!

En Garde!

Three Dragon Ante

Quiddler (Worn box)

Trump (Worn box)

Rat Race (Worn box, maybe pieces missing)

Stock Market Game (Worn box, maybe pieces missing)

Tulipmania

Dungeons and Dragons Handbook

Wealth of Nations (Great Game)

Boomtown

Incan Gold

Nuclear War

Nuclear Proliferation

Oshi (Good 2 player strategy game)

risk 2210 (Some minis painted)

The Magic Labyrinth (Great light game)

Liars Dice (Original! Worn box)

Cashflow (by Robert Kiyosaki $200 New)

Cashflow 202 (expansion to cashflow)

Dominion (Great game, 1 set of cards heat warped but still playable)

Dominion Intrigue (Great game)

Krysis

Power Grid Factory Manager (Great condition)

Showdown poker (Worn box, parts missing? Cool custom wooden dice)

Playtesters playing an early version of Zombie Mayhem.

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