Thursday, December 27, 2012

The 2013 Queer Feminist Agenda for Games

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Identity politics in video games are on the rise: there are more transgender, gay, or queer people in games speaking out about their experie...
Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Amnesia Fortnight design notes / analysis: "Autonomous"

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I played the Double Fine  Amnesia Fortnight prototypes without watching their pitches or videos or reading anything at all about them, s...
Saturday, December 22, 2012

Just around the corner, always out of reach...

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UPDATE, 19 June 2014: I have given up on this project, and I'm open-sourcing the project files . The ballad of the bloodthirsty poet. ...
Friday, December 21, 2012

Deceptive epistemologies in strategy game interfaces, and a theory of strong vs. weak fallibility.

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When you play Command and Conquer or Starcraft, you're supposedly some anonymous commander at a console who can see everything and co...
Thursday, December 20, 2012

A confirmed heart

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A month ago I wrote about the Heart in Dishonored , and I'm glad my suspicions (it's a dressed-up radar / hint system / audio guide)...

How do you explain insanity

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I remember talking to a game journalist about the difference between interviewing AAA developers and indies. He said a lot of indies and aca...
Tuesday, December 18, 2012

new game: "Barback" for Ludum Dare #25

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"Barback" is a 1-2 player cooperative / competitive Tapper-ish variant about 2 brothers and a bar. It should take you about 15-20...
Sunday, December 16, 2012

some more words on the AAA manshooter / text games

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I have a knack for sending too much material to journalists when really they just want a quote or two. I promise to stop doing that. In th...