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Wall Street Journal Gaming Article + SkillCraft.ca

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CrushDog5
Profile Joined March 2010
Canada207 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-06 05:37:54
March 06 2012 02:12 GMT
#1
An article about the benefits of gaming was published in the Wall Street Journal. The article highlights the SkillCraft.ca expertise project and other video game research. There is a video as well.

There will be a page for the live chat about the topic of gaming research hosted by both Lee and myself at 1pm Eastern on Tuesday, but you can submit comments or questions any time before then.

==
Speaking of our research...
We are getting close to finishing the data processing for the 3400 replays collected from the fall. A great many scripts were written, checked, and double-checked, and we're nearly to the stage where we see some results. Our focus will be first and foremost on writing up the results for publication in a scientific journal, but as soon as that's done we'll be posting player-oriented results here on TL. We're getting close, everyone. Promise.

I'd like to give a big shout out to godulous and the fine folks at Playhem.com for giving us access to a staggering amount of replays (150K+), making SkillCraft.ca the largest scientific study of gaming ever conducted far. Over the next few weeks we'll be moving our research project onto a computer cluster with almost 10,000 processing cores.

Finally, I want to thank you, TL, for your replays and your continuing support. When we first started this, it wasn't clear to anyone that the project would go anywhere. Now, about 10 months in, the SkillCraft.ca expertise study has received press coverage in the Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, Kotaku, Escapist, and Gamasutra (let me know if I missed any!). Our research is not possible without you. So I'm drinking a toast to TL, and to StarCraft, and to Science, and another to Science and one more because Day[9] forgot to enable sound.


EDIT: Added the link to the video
EDIT 2: Added the link to the article, and removed the video link (it's linked from the article).
SkillCraft.com - StarCraft + Science
johnnywup
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States3858 Posts
March 06 2012 02:16 GMT
#2
wow. crazy stuff. awesome work guys!
spacebob42
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States78 Posts
March 06 2012 02:17 GMT
#3
Thanks for the update, keep up the great work!
Go big or go home.
EatThePath
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
United States3943 Posts
March 06 2012 02:20 GMT
#4
Super exciting, no hyperbole. Can't wait. ;D
Comprehensive strategic intention: DNE
Probulous
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Australia3894 Posts
March 06 2012 02:20 GMT
#5
This was always going to be an awesome project. I assume you will let us know what Journal you plan to publish in once you have decided.

As for your celebrations
"Dude has some really interesting midgame switches that I wouldn't have expected. "I violated your house" into "HIHO THE DAIRY OH!" really threw me. You don't usually expect children's poetry harass as a follow up " - AmericanUmlaut
fezvez
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
France3021 Posts
March 06 2012 02:21 GMT
#6
Bravo sir!

It is very nice of you to keep us informed, and yes, we're awaiting eagerly the results =)
imEnex
Profile Joined June 2011
Canada500 Posts
March 06 2012 02:35 GMT
#7
Thats pretty sick!
Program yourself to Success
cmen15
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States1519 Posts
March 06 2012 02:38 GMT
#8
wow that is many replays Oo
Greed leads to just about all losses.
chambertin
Profile Joined August 2011
United States1704 Posts
March 06 2012 02:50 GMT
#9
Very cool project! keep the updates comin'
"I know one thing, that I know nothing" - Socrates?
Torte de Lini
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Germany38463 Posts
March 06 2012 02:51 GMT
#10
Very awesome! Anxious to seew hat you find!
https://twitter.com/#!/TorteDeLini (@TorteDeLini)
CrushDog5
Profile Joined March 2010
Canada207 Posts
March 06 2012 05:16 GMT
#11
Added video link.
It's sooo hard to watch video of yourself; cringe.
SkillCraft.com - StarCraft + Science
LaLuSh
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Sweden2358 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-06 05:37:48
March 06 2012 05:24 GMT
#12
Excited to read it. I remember checking the wrong box twice while doing your survey. And it was while assessing some really obvious openings. I gave some crazy answers. Was a bug with either firefox or noscript that wouldn't allow me to check boxes, so I accidentally submitted some crazy predictions. Made a note of it in the text of the next question though. Don't know whether you're allowed to change data points anyway. Your sample size is prolly big enough for it not to matter.
Polygamy
Profile Joined January 2010
Austria1114 Posts
March 06 2012 05:37 GMT
#13
O.o interesting work
Primadog
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States4411 Posts
March 06 2012 06:29 GMT
#14
Looking forward to when your study gets published.
Thank God and gunrun.
Rockztar
Profile Joined June 2011
Denmark210 Posts
March 06 2012 06:47 GMT
#15
Awesome article! It seriously warmed my heart, when the interviewer in one of the vids said she'd been playing games since she was a kid. :D

Good luck with finishing the project, and congratiolations on all the success it's had so far!
Tiegrr
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States607 Posts
March 06 2012 07:07 GMT
#16
Great article! Makes me feel proud to be a gamer (call me what you will haters).
Wafflelisk
Profile Joined October 2011
Canada1061 Posts
March 06 2012 07:23 GMT
#17
Nice to see a mainstream article that doesn't completely dismiss gaming as a worthless thing for children, and instead maybe something that could benefit society.

PS, it was fun participating in the study. :p
Waffles > Pancakes
MHT
Profile Joined August 2010
Sweden1026 Posts
March 06 2012 07:33 GMT
#18
This got pretty big holy shit
mnck
Profile Joined April 2010
Denmark1518 Posts
March 06 2012 07:46 GMT
#19
I'm glad to see one of my replays being part of such an interesting and exciting study :D Can't wait to see the result.
@Munck
Falling
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Canada11349 Posts
March 07 2012 05:39 GMT
#20
Just going to bump this because people keep making separate topics all over the place.
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