Game (Life): Video Games in Contemporary Art
I have been saying for years that games are — or ought to be — Art with a capital A.…
The Great Game Designer
Paul Spinrad has posted some interesting thoughts about game design and real-world applications: I’m fascinated at how complexity emerges from…
Bacterial Prisoner’s Dilemma and Game Theory
This might be useful as a game design paradigm: Scientists studying how bacteria under stress collectively weigh and initiate different…
Bad Game Designer, No Twinkie!
Veteran game design Ernest Adams lists some of his favorite examples of bad game design. Here, he quotes an example…
Private Game Servers
Not everyone is content to play commercial games on commercial game servers: some enterprising individuals are motivated to set up…
Unreal Development Kit Video Tutorials
Unreal developers will love these online video tutorials … and — of course — the free SDK: UDK is Unreal…
Based on a True Story
Paul Spinrad has posted some interesting observations about storytelling, simulations, and reality — concepts which are directly relevant to game…
Game Design Techniques for Web Designers
Nadya Direkova — currently a Senior Interaction Designer at Google, previously with Razorfish — discusses the application of game design…
Chess as a Social Metaphor in Italy
Most games (solitaire excepted) are, by definition, social activities — none more so than chess: For some time chess was…
Post Script: mod for Half-Life 2
Post Script is an interesting new mod-in-progress for Half-Life 2 by Lewis Denby: Post Script is an episodic, interactive narrative,…