Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Lol we're all poor

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Some recent posts on indie dev failure have been going around lately -- Introversion Software talks about how their experimental explorat...
Saturday, June 24, 2017

Some recent conversation on cultural appropriation

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A few months ago, I wrote about how I think VR "empathy machines" are basically just a form of appropriation , where VR brands ...
Monday, June 19, 2017

On "Let's Meat Adam" by Soulsoft

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Let's Meat Adam is a short gay erotic-horror visual novel puzzle game about being a hunky West Hollywood white dude trapped in a gor...
Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Against simpler times

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Years ago, I wrote about a hypothetical 2013 Queer Feminist Agenda for games . What an innocent time that was! Back then, I argued that w...
Saturday, June 10, 2017

On that one brilliant episode of Murder She Wrote that thinks VR is kind of bullshit

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Murder She Wrote was a long running TV show about an elderly mystery novelist (played by Dame Angela Lansbury ) who happens to solve all t...
Saturday, May 27, 2017

From modders to mimics: a people's history of the "prop hunt" genre

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This post contains minor gameplay spoilers for the first hour of Prey (2017). Contemporary game design is built on the blood, sweat, and...
Tuesday, May 23, 2017

So I'm joining NYU Game Center as full-time faculty in Fall 2017... (and a bit about adjuncting)

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So some brief career news stuff -- I'll be joining NYU Game Center as full-time faculty ("assistant arts professor") start...
Monday, May 15, 2017

Eyes on the prize...

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I've been working hard on my historical bathroom simulator The Tearoom, and I'm desperately trying to finish it within the next cou...