Gamers imposing permanence on their decisions
“There’s been a lot of interest in Far Cry 2 recently surrounding some gamers’ attempts to impose permanence on all…
Space Garbace Scow (should be a game!)
This isn’t game related. Space garbage is a serious problem, a life-and-death problem. Bob Cringely has given the matter some…
Rushkoff on creating an alternate reality game
Douglas Rushkoff talks about his participation in the making of Exoriare: I’ve written and even taught a whole lot about…
StarCraft AI Competition
StarCraft AI Competition The Expressive Intelligence Studio at UC Santa Cruz will be hosting a StarCraft competition: This competition enables…
Space of Possibility and Pacing in Casual Game Design
Mark Venturelli has posted an interesting article about principles of game design structure: Designing a game is designing a space…
Escape From City 17
Escape From City 17 got a nice writeup at Wired recently. The mixed-media movie was created on a shoestring budget…
Mechanical computer uses matchboxes and beans to learn Tic-Tac-Toe
James Bridle reports: “I just completed a working build of Donald Michie’s MENACE (Matchbox Educable Noughts And Crosses Engine), an…
Interview with Jackson Pope of Reiver Games
Over at A Year of Frugal Gaming, board game designer Jackson Pope of Reiver Games talks about quitting his job…
Happy Halloween!
Have a Happy Halloween — and be safe out there, you Trick or Treaters — or I’ll have no choice…
Game designers are undervalued
“We need to talk in terms that oscillate between code, design, opinion, bringing together the fractured, disparate roles of game…