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Bicycle Thieves (1948) This is adapted from a spur-of-the-moment Lost Levels 2018 talk. In video games, we understand realism as mea...

Game feel always has a narrative aspect tied to the player's in-game identity -- but in a top-down strategy game, who are you? Why do...

Several years ago, I sat-in on a "games as literature" course, and promptly got into an argument with the instructor. We were t...

In Convo , characters do not have fixed names or skill stats, exactly. Instead, they have knowledge that they selectively believe about th...

When you play Command and Conquer or Starcraft, you're supposedly some anonymous commander at a console who can see everything and co...

So the celebration of visual arts in video games like "Into the Pixel" is cool in one sense, but a little dishonest in another...

(I attended PAX East on a scholarship from the IGDA , for which I'm grateful. They also facilitated a lovely lunch with Tom Lin of Dem...

... For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying - what one felt. Cleverness was silly. One must say simply what one fel...

I presented this entire stack in-class in 2 minutes, so imagine me talking really fast and spending about 10 seconds on each slide. In my vi...

So my Philosophy series at the Escapist has finally wrapped up with part 4 . You may now rejoice. Here's what I'm guilty of: Taki...

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_273/8159-The-Philosophy-of-Game-Design-part-1 The 1st part (of 4) of my "p...

(This is a two-part essay on Starcraft II, why it is great, and its relation to Heidegger's writings on technology using Sirlin's e...