Friday, August 30, 2013

On "Shelter" and the power of ambiguity.

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WARNING: This post spoils Shelter and Amnesia: The Dark Descent. It makes sense that Thomas Grip likes Shelter -- functionally, Shelte...
Thursday, August 29, 2013

"Press Select" is officially announced / update on the Half-Life book.

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So the cute-gay-dad couple that is Daniel Golding and Brendan Keogh (oh gosh this is how rumors start) have officially launched a swanky ...
Thursday, August 22, 2013

What should you learn in Games 101?

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I'm teaching an undergraduate "Games 101" class at Parsons this Fall semester, and putting together the syllabus has been... n...
Saturday, August 17, 2013

"Gone Home" and the mansion genre.

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This post does not spoil any specifics of the "plot" in Gone Home, but it might sensitize you to its delivery mechanisms and so...
Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Ludonarrative dissonance doesn't exist because it isn't dissonant and no one cares anyway.

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"I'm a living breathing person... but I'm just going to stand frozen in this spot forever. Also, I'm a tortoise." ...
Monday, August 5, 2013

7HFPS: "Harriet"

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For 7 Hour FPS , I imagined some sort of Tribe-ish Mechwarrior game where you're a Harriet pilot ("Harrier + Jet") and you ...
Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Radiator Book Club: Architecture, design and criticism.

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Book Club posts recommend books and approaches to consuming them for today's go-getting game developer / enthusiast. ARCHITECTURE The...
Friday, July 26, 2013

Experiment 12

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I'm not sure if it's in the spirit of the thing to actually explain or say anything about the thing, so I'll say very little a...