Aug 7, 2018
Here's an encore of a favorite: Games Over Gangs.
Those dang video games. Can't pull the kids away from them. And there's one city using that to its advantage -- with an innovative partnership that's actually teaching video game development to local youths from a rough neighborhood (yes, they jumped at the offer to become game developers), affording them a break from an anxious environment and setting them up with a sweet professional skill that can open big doors: computer coding, which has tons of (well-paying) applications. On this episode, we meet the program's creators and some impressive kids who are boosting prospects and expressing real-life (and often tough) experiences through the games they create. With, on the host's part, some reminiscing about old-school Sierra games.
Show notes
Games Over Gangs info and donation site - https://www.gofundme.com/antigang-gaming-programing
NCSU Game2Learn Lab - http://eliza.csc.ncsu.edu/people.html Technician
(NCSU student newspaper) story - http://www.technicianonline.com/news/article_e926670c-5c50-11e7-82c9-dfe6870c4bb5.html
Space Quest III - https://youtu.be/yTZzFN8ilG0
Pulseboy (used to compose some of the oldschool video game music heard in this episode) http://www.pulseboy.com