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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 […]
I’m sitting here in New York City waiting for the start of the Games For Change festival. Looks like there are going to be a couple of hundred people here to talk about serious games for social change.
I was up until far too late putting some additional polish on Melting Point. Today is the […]
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 […]
After a long spell of work and contemplation, the last two weeks have been a whirlwind of meeting new people and doing interesting things.
Two weeks ago was GDC, which is normally a highlight of my year. This year, though, things were a bit tougher. To keep expenses down, I had scheduled a shorter-than-usual trip this […]
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 […]
That title is an anagram of the phrase “ExxonMobil Corporation”. Today, the Union of Concerned Scientists released a remarkably detailed document that says:
In an effort to deceive the public about the reality of global warming, ExxonMobil has underwritten the most sophisticated and most successful disinformation campaign since the tobacco industry misled the public about the […]
Half-Real: A Video Game in the Hands of a Player
Jesper Juul is an Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen. He used to be a media scholar at MIT, turned his dissertation into a book.
He’s talking about the relationships between video games and reality.
What we’ll talk about:* After “what is a game”* After ludology and […]
I had lunch today with my new friend (a friend of old friends) Henry Olds and his friend Mark Bowen.
Mark is the author of a really good book called Thin Ice. Well I have to admit that my opinion is only half-baked, because I haven’t finished it yet. When I do, I will write […]
One day last week, I spent several hours with Ernest Adams, the game designer. We’ve been casual friends for many years, generally bumping into one another at the Game Developer’s Conference and sharing a beer. This time, I was paying for his services.
I’ve been struggling with some of the issues I’ve had with game design […]
Today’s news is depressing.
NASA says that we’re now “reaching and passing through” the warmest climate the earth has seen in 12,000 years, and that we’re now within about one degree C of the warmest the earth has been in a million years. James Hansen (who has a tendency to say things the current […]