Handy Vandal's Almanac

Over at Institute for the Future, Mathias Crawford recently published a thoughtful essay on how games persuade us to change…

What if William Shakespeare had been a game designer? Wall Street Journal: You mentioned Shakespeare as one of your interests…

The phrase “permanent death” is exactly the kind of thing that is sure to catch my eye — a contradiction,…

Jesse Schell gave an engaging presentation at DICE 2010 about game design “outside the box, beyond Facebook” and more:

Dan Lawrence recently posted a thoughtful essay about ethics, psychology, and game design: It seems to me that the very…

Gaming is big business — bigger than movies, worldwide. Item, this recent business news: Gameshastra opens 1000-seat facility in Hyderabad…

I have a longstanding interest in games with practical real-world applications. For example, this budget balancer game, where you try…

German Tower by Pxbeetle Pxbeetle makes some of the most beautiful maps I’ve ever seen. This guy knows that he’s…

Dan Griliopoulos, a lifelong gamer who suffers from deuteranopia, a form of red-green colourblindness, has written a very interesting essay…

In this time of white-out blizzards and severe cabin fever, many of us look for engaging mental getaways that don’t…