FreeplayFreeplay » Categories Archives for Uncategorized http://www.freeplay.net.au Freeplay Independent Games Festival Wed, 26 Oct 2011 23:12:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Fast Five – Dan Donahoo http://www.freeplay.net.au/2011/08/fast-five-dan-donahoo/ http://www.freeplay.net.au/2011/08/fast-five-dan-donahoo/#comments Thu, 11 Aug 2011 01:39:34 +0000 meredith http://www.freeplay.net.au/?p=1920 In the hot seat today for Fast Five is Dan Donahoo, a man with many hats, who you can see on our Growing Up In A Gaming Culture panel.

Who are you and what do you do?

Daniel Donahoo. GeekDad. Wired & Huffington Post Contributor. Director @ Project Synthesis – focusing on the social use of technology. Geek in Residence at Emerging Writers’ Festival. Advise children’s app developers through App Advice. Role-player. Board-gamer. World-builder. Obsessed with the importance of play, game-based learning and the long process of change.

What are you working on right now?

Gamification project for Child Fund Connect. Expanding LEGO Poetry. Development of social enterprise Digital(4)Life

What are you playing right now – digital or otherwise?

My special edition Settlers of Catan with my two boys. Plants vs. Zombies in transit on the iPad. An educational ARG by the amazing @jessmculloch teaching kids about Chinese characters. With LEGO Poetry. With iPad app Toontastic. Thinking about re-entering Alt-1914 a globally run alternative world simulation with the most amazing Excel spreadsheet ever!

What is your earliest gaming memory – digital or otherwise?

Creating BASIC programming word games on the C64. Running games of Fuzzy Heroes RPG for my younger brothers. Dungeon crawling through weekends – “You killed 5 Orcs and find 147 gold and their rusted long swords”. Addicted to Civilisation circa 1995, derailing final year of high school.

What’s a non-gaming entertainment/artistic highlight of the past 12 months for you?

The birth of my third son, Liam – one of the future game participants.

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