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We’ve got a gusher!
I’m irrationally excited about the new SimCity game.
Like I’m going to read in direct sunlight with a $600 tablet. COME ON!
Yet another attempt to figure out the mindset of people blinded by glowing Apple logos.
Are you not entertained?!
Something about The Hunger Games isn’t sitting right with me, and I’m not quite sure exactly what it is. Minor spoilers abound.
Side Effects May Include Dizziness, Nausea, and Plot Development
More on using narrative as a game mechanic. Games have borrowed liberally from Tolkien over the years, but I’ve never seen a game incorporate one of his coolest ideas.
What is Past is Prologue
Laying the foundation for more talk about narrative as a game mechanic, but this time with semi-concrete examples. Plus huge spoilers for Portal 2!
Good for the Gander
I do some backpedalling of my own.
Guilt by Dissociation
On complicity, faux-feminism, and how not to be an asshole on the internet (and real life).
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.”
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.
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
Welcome to the schlock
Fox’s new series Alcatraz somehow manages to be less than the sum of its parts.