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Today I’m going to meet with a bunch of Massachusetts state legislators to talk about the Boston-area game industry. I hope to convince them that the game industry is an important one for the state, and that attempting to pass content-control legislation (limiting sales of video games to minors) would be expensive, futile, and ultimately […]
It’s been a good week for me in the press. The weekend before last included the OLPC game jam, as well as my son’s high school graduation and the start of the Games For Change festival in New York.
There was an article in Mass High Tech on serious games in which I was featured:
But […]
Audience about 1/3 gamers, 1/3 has memorized a long poem
Good news
First time we’ve ever had multiple generations playing games at the same time
Most game machines are connected
With game design you can seamlessly connect to activism — civil disobedience, Meetup
Democratization of the tools
“Double bottom line companies” — financial and social return
Bad news:
Entertaining games are still very […]
I’ve been insanely busy lately. Still making some money consulting, but also doing a ton of work on the game.
I don’t think I’ve even blogged about it…but I rebooted the project a few months back. The game as planned was going to be a downloaded game that players would buy, install and play. The game […]
Damn, Skippy. This post was a double surprise.
First, I hadn’t seen the news about the BBC game about global warming yet. It’s better than I thought it would be at first glance, but it’s also kind of predictable, and I found the gameplay to be fairly stilted. Although it seemed like they had the elements […]
When I gave my talk at the Serious Games Summit, someone asked me if he could videotape it. I said yes. Well, he posted the video, and I just found it. If you have an hour with nothing else to do, there ya go. You can follow along with the slides if you like (amusing […]
A friend sent me a link to a newly-established wiki on “documentary” games. Sadly, it’s still very new and there’s no definition of documentary games.
At first, I thought the concept a bit odd — perhaps because I think of documentaries as telling a nonfiction story, and I know that I should probably stay far away […]