Its great they are doing this in Scotland, and I hope move it down here too, as I can see a lot of kids being encouraged the same way.

How lucky kids are today? I remember days when I'd be told off just for bringing my Gameboy into school, to play at breaktimes.

Now if they could just create something to encourage game creation, and then we'd be really getting somewhere. For instance, Zelda was mentioned above, so you build on that by separating kids into teams and having each develop their own game ideas.

They'd need to combine story, art, music and game design. Expand on this and open it up to more schools and things would get interesting, with kids caring about school more. Perhaps Spong could run this idea by them, I'd love to know what they think.

I'd have loved to be told off for bringing a GameBoy to school. We were told off for bringing our wooden spinning tops or hoop 'n' sticks to school. And we had to lick t' pavement for school lunch, etc.

Seriously though, it's great that once in a while you get someone actually acknowleding the positives from playing video games. I seem to remember not too long ago a study that showed that airline pilots who play video games are generally more skilled in their work. It all makes sense, really, but the media likes to focus on video games as being a waste of time and detrimental in every possible way.

Hello Joji,
If you have a look at the sharing practice area in the Consolarium's website you'll see that we are exploring games design in Scottish schools. There is a lot of this happening in English schools too. See what you think:
Games design in Scotland via the Consolarium