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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 […]
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 […]