{"id":3756,"date":"2013-12-19T08:35:05","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T15:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=3756"},"modified":"2014-09-12T11:46:33","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T17:46:33","slug":"serious-game-alumni-interview-3-with-katrin-becker-games-and-meaningful-play-michigan-state-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2013\/12\/19\/serious-game-alumni-interview-3-with-katrin-becker-games-and-meaningful-play-michigan-state-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Serious Game Alumni Interview #3 with Katrin Becker | Games and Meaningful Play @ Michigan State University"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><a href=\"http:\/\/seriousgames.msu.edu\/serious-game-alumni-interview-3-with-katrin-becker\/\">Serious Game Alumni Interview #3 with Katrin Becker | Games and Meaningful Play @ Michigan State University<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is an interview with me about my experience at Michigan State University taking their new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reg.msu.edu\/AcademicPrograms\/ProgramDetail.asp?Program=1497\" target=\"_blank\">Graduate Certificate Program in Serious Game Design and Research &#8211; Serious Game Design &amp; Research.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Turns out, I&#8217;m the first person to graduate from this program.<\/p>\n<p>Cool.<\/p>\n<p>These are some of the projects I worked on:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3758\" style=\"width: 233px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3758\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3758    \" alt=\"Zen and the Art of Waiting Rooms: a Serious Game to help people relax and slow heart rate while waiting in emergency rooms.\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/zen3-223x300.png\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/zen3-223x300.png 223w, https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/zen3.png 760w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3758\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zen and the Art of Waiting Rooms: a Serious Game to help people relax and slow heart rate while waiting in emergency rooms.<br \/>(C) Mink Hollow Media, Ltd. All rights reserved.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3760\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/gene-rummy\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3760\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3760  \" alt=\"Gene Rummy - A card game to teach Mendelian genetics\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/banner-s-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/banner-s-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/banner-s.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3760\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gene Rummy &#8211; A card game to teach Mendelian genetics.<br \/>(C) Mink Hollow Media, Ltd. All rights reserved.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3761\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3761\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3761  \" alt=\"It's Showtime! An application to manage ARBA rabbit shows.\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Entries-300x225.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Entries-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Entries.png 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3761\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It&#8217;s Showtime! An application to manage ARBA rabbit shows.<br \/>(C) Mink Hollow Media, Ltd. All rights reserved.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-3756'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(3756);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(3756);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(3756);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Serious Game Alumni Interview #3 with Katrin Becker | Games and Meaningful Play @ Michigan State University. This is an interview with me about my experience at Michigan State University taking their new Graduate Certificate Program in Serious Game Design &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2013\/12\/19\/serious-game-alumni-interview-3-with-katrin-becker-games-and-meaningful-play-michigan-state-university\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[388,127,76],"class_list":["post-3756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-general","tag-academia","tag-game-design","tag-serious-games"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-YA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2968,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2012\/10\/09\/theories-of-games-and-interaction-for-design-5-3-queries\/","url_meta":{"origin":3756,"position":0},"title":"Theories of Games and Interaction for Design (5: 3 Queries)","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"October 9, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"These are public postings of my writings for the first course of the Graduate Certificate Program in Serious Game Design and Research at Michigan State University. 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