Thursday, January 26, 2017

Queer Game Studies, "On FeministWhorePurna and the Ludo-material Politics of Gendered Damage Power-ups in Open-World RPG Video Games"

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For the upcoming book Queer Game Studies (2017), I contributed a chapter on the "FeministWhore" scandal in the game Dead Island...
Tuesday, January 17, 2017

RIP, Vine.

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The short video service Vine shut down today. I know a lot of game designers and devs who used Vine to document and share their work, and ...

rescheduled for Spring 2017: "Level With Me" Twitch level design show now on Tuesdays at 6 PM EST

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Just a quick note that my weekly level design show on Twitch, called Level With Me , is now on Tuesdays at 6 PM EST (GMT-5) for the new seas...
Friday, January 13, 2017

"Pylons are my penis": a phenomenology of building in Offworld Trading Company and other strategy games

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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...
Monday, January 9, 2017

Resolutions, 2017

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A few general goals for this year: be more active in VR communities, push for critical theory in VR finally put out a publicly available ...
Wednesday, December 28, 2016

On legacy systems and Kentucky Route Zero (Acts I-IV) by Cardboard Computer

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A lot of people will say Kentucky Route Zero is "minimalist"... but I think that label is pretty misleading. It packs every ...
Thursday, December 22, 2016

Radiator Blog: Seventh (7th) Year Anniversary roundup

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In keeping with tradition, I do a round-up of this blog's "notable" posts from the past year, and offer a bit of reflective...
Saturday, December 17, 2016

Radiator University, Spring 2017 catalog

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Registration for most students at Radiator University has already begun. Make sure you sign-up for these classes soon before they completely...