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Ed Morrison · The game layer
August 26th, 2010
Facebook and Twitter capture our social lives on the web — building a “social layer” on top of the real world.
At TEDxBoston, Seth Priebatsch presented the next layer in progress: the “game layer,” a pervasive net of behavior-steering game dynamics that will reshape education and commerce.
A number of years ago, a group of us, including David Demming, Michael DeAlioa and David Moss, tried to get NorTech and others to understand that Cleveland — with the Institute of Art — had an early start in gaming, and that we should build on this advantage. CIA launched an incubator, Future. I-Open, a non-profit spin-out that formed after the Weatherhead School shut down the Center for Regional Economic Issues, even held a couple of DeFrag conferences to connect resources from throughout the state to Cleveland.
Most of this has disappeared from the web. All I could find was a 2006 story on the CIA web site. Nothing much happened. Cleveland’s top-down mindsets and relative inability to build collaborative enterprises carries real consequences in lost opportunities.
Maybe now, with new leadership at NorTech, there’s still an opportunity. Others have already seen it:
Georgia a hotspot in video game development
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Addendum:
Rhode Island recently launched a strategy to build a cluster of interactive game companies. As part of that effort, Well Fargo Securities prepared a report. Here’s one slide on the market opportunity:
Here’s a presentation made to the RI Economic Development Corporation on the cluster.
Game Cluster Report for Rhode Island
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August 26th, 2010 at 9:58 am
Leadership — another top down? What about the bottom up, grass roots counterpart? Wasn’t that the core lesson learned?
Just FYI, the “real world” always had a social layer.
For anyone who has been on old BBS systems and Compuserve, witnessing online jam sessions where Todd Rundgren collaborated on new music virtually twenty years ago, it isn’t new online either.
August 30th, 2010 at 4:42 pm
[...] my earlier post, I told the story of how NEO missed an opportunity in 2006 by not focusing early on the emerging [...]