Month: January 2012
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Are You Experiences? (And have you ever been games?)
Narrative can too be a game mechanic, as long as you familiarize yourself with how narratives work, and you don’t have an overly strict definition of “game.”
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Snow White and the 4 8 15 16 23 42 Dwarves
The series Once Upon a Time is part Fables and part Lost, which makes me wonder why I ever believed I wouldn’t get hooked on it.
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Making Money from the Network, or, The Workers Control the Means of Promotion
Disagreeing with a guy as nice as Jonathan Coulton seems like a bad idea, but I’m going to do it anyway
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Welcome to the schlock
Fox’s new series Alcatraz somehow manages to be less than the sum of its parts.
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A Cookie Filled With Arsenic
Sweet Smell of Success is a classic movie with one of the greatest screenplays in the history of cinema. The Duellists is… not. I don’t understand why The Castro decided to run them together.
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Works for Me!
Boneheaded responses to piracy are getting more subtle but no less boneheaded
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Responsibility
An open letter to Senator Barbara Boxer and Senator Dianne Feinstein, supporter and co-sponsor of the PROTECT IP bill and supporters of SOPA
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Lore on Demand
Repressed memories dredged up by Skyrim, and reconsidering some assumptions about storytelling in videogames