I?ll be closing the research now. For reference this posts limits the valid posts in the thread. Thank you all who participated. For those curious those questions were intended to find out examples of the influence of tangential learning on gamers. And if you want to know what my answers would be, here they are.
1) Yes. Before playing Assassin?s Creed I had no idea who Saladin was.
2) Yes. Aside from looking up more about the crusades after Assassin?s Creed, Final Fantasy references introduced me to various mythologies.
3) Yes. I was introduced to the concept of Tangential Learning by a video on videogames.
4) Yes. My interest in games has leaded me to my interest in game development, programming and Computer Science.
1) Yes. Before playing Assassin?s Creed I had no idea who Saladin was.
2) Yes. Aside from looking up more about the crusades after Assassin?s Creed, Final Fantasy references introduced me to various mythologies.
3) Yes. I was introduced to the concept of Tangential Learning by a video on videogames.
4) Yes. My interest in games has leaded me to my interest in game development, programming and Computer Science.