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• Ask Metafilter Critical reviews/writing on Tears of the Kingdom So, we all love the latest Zelda game (Tears of the Kingdom - TOTK), and so do the critics. But now that we and the game journalists all have hundreds of hours of playtime under our belts, have any thoughtful, well written critical…

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• Metafilter MeFi: Women geeking out about geeky women Reclaiming the Nerdiverse [NSFW audio] is a fascinating hour-long discussion about women in science fiction and fantasy on the late night edition of the venerable BBC radio show Woman's Hour (podcast link). The host is Lauren Laverne, and her guests are author and…

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• Portfolio Algorithmic Narratives and Synthetic Subjects (paper)

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• Furtherfield Contributions Resolution Disputes: A Conversation Between Rosa Menkman and Daniel Rourke

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• Furtherfield Contributions Interview with Domenico Quaranta

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• Bookmark Goodbye, Turing Test; Bring on the Turing Decathlon - Facts So Romantic…

  How many researchers does it take to change a test of artificial intelligence? Sixty-five years ago, famed mathematician and WWII code-breaker Alan Turing unveiled the “Imitation Game,” a playful scenario designed to…

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• Bookmark Choose Your Own Formalism | The White Review

  In 2007 game designer and Second Life CEO Rod Humble wrote a video game called The Marriage[1]. The player’s goal in The Marriage is to prevent two squares from shrinking or…

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• Bookmark Choose Your Own Formalism

  In 2007 game designer and Second Life CEO Rod Humble wrote a video game called The Marriage[1]. The player’s goal in The Marriage is to prevent two squares from shrinking or…

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• Portfolio An Ontology of Everything on the Face of the Earth

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• Bookmark Google’s Earth

  “I ACTUALLY think most people don’t want Google to answer their questions,” said the search giant’s chief executive, Eric Schmidt, in a recent and controversial interview. “They want Google to tell…

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• Bookmark VideoGames can't tell stories

  Games don’t do storytelling well because they can’t deliver the four key components of story. There is no hero. Time is in the control of the player, not the creator. There…

  November 24 2011, 2:53am | Comments

• Bookmark The Constraint Histories of Digital Games

  Attempts to provide a taxonomy of game genres founder on the lack of consistent criteria, and usually have to be arbitrarily assigned. Connecting ‘shooters’ into a lineage suggests scrolling shooters were…

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• Bibliography Critical Play: Radical Game Design by M Flanagan

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• Writing from 3quarksdaily Inside Code: A Conversation with Dr. Lane DeNicola and Seph Rodney

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• Bookmark My Famicase Exhibition 2010

  With its latest entries having just appeared online, the Famicase exhibition -- curated by Tokyo game culture shop Meteor -- once again proves why it's a yearly art/game highlight. The premise?…

  May 13 2010, 5:25am | Comments

• Bookmark Game Design as Make-Believe (4): Fictional Worlds

  When one plays most videogames there is a tacit understanding that one is entering into a fictional world – the term virtual world, is often deployed to mean exactly this. It…

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• Bookmark Video games can never be art

  Having once made the statement above, I have declined all opportunities to enlarge upon it or defend it. That seemed to be a fool's errand, especially given the volume of messages…

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• Writing from 3quarksdaily Avatar: We're Not in Kansas Anymore!

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• Bookmark This Is The Only Level

  This is the Only Level is a 2D platformer in which you have to guide a boldly unanimated elephant over a series of pits, some of which are filled with spikes,…

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• Bookmark What do Amnesia, Immortality, and Mind Control have to do with Game…

  What breaks your sense of presence in a story? The culture of video game playing has developed a tolerance for the common practices and limitations in designing and producing games. We’ve…

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• Metafilter MeFi: MonkeyFilter! II Ron Gilbert (Wikipedia) recently sat down with his game, The Secret of Monkey Island, and wrote a commentary track detailing the design, secrets, and cuts made in creating the game. (via)

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• Ask Metafilter Critical reviews/writing on Tears of the Kingdom So, we all love the latest Zelda game (Tears of the Kingdom - TOTK), and so do the critics. But now that we and the game journalists all have hundreds of hours of playtime under our belts, have any thoughtful, well written critical…

  June 12 2023, 6:21am | Comments

• YouTube

  February 14 2022, 4:00am | Comments

• YouTube

  November 1 2021, 10:57am | Comments

• YouTube

  November 6 2019, 4:00am | Comments

• YouTube

  August 9 2017, 9:29am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: Women geeking out about geeky women Reclaiming the Nerdiverse [NSFW audio] is a fascinating hour-long discussion about women in science fiction and fantasy on the late night edition of the venerable BBC radio show Woman's Hour (podcast link). The host is Lauren Laverne, and her guests are author and…

  September 3 2015, 6:01am | Comments

• Portfolio Algorithmic Narratives and Synthetic Subjects (paper)

  May 8 2015, 4:02am | Comments

• Furtherfield Contributions Resolution Disputes: A Conversation Between Rosa Menkman and Daniel Rourke

  April 13 2015, 5:50am | Comments

• Furtherfield Contributions Interview with Domenico Quaranta

  April 8 2015, 3:57am | Comments

• Bookmark Goodbye, Turing Test; Bring on the Turing Decathlon - Facts So Romantic…

  How many researchers does it take to change a test of artificial intelligence? Sixty-five years ago, famed mathematician and WWII code-breaker Alan Turing unveiled the “Imitation Game,” a playful scenario designed to…

  February 10 2015, 4:11am | Comments

• Bookmark Choose Your Own Formalism | The White Review

  In 2007 game designer and Second Life CEO Rod Humble wrote a video game called The Marriage[1]. The player’s goal in The Marriage is to prevent two squares from shrinking or…

  July 14 2014, 12:43am | Comments

• Bookmark Choose Your Own Formalism

  In 2007 game designer and Second Life CEO Rod Humble wrote a video game called The Marriage[1]. The player’s goal in The Marriage is to prevent two squares from shrinking or…

  July 12 2014, 2:38am | Comments

• Portfolio An Ontology of Everything on the Face of the Earth

  December 9 2013, 10:34am | Comments

• Bookmark Google’s Earth

  “I ACTUALLY think most people don’t want Google to answer their questions,” said the search giant’s chief executive, Eric Schmidt, in a recent and controversial interview. “They want Google to tell…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Abstract Encounters: a Modern Media Simulation | Alien Fiction

  May 16 2013, 9:42am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Alex Myers

  April 3 2013, 9:28am | Comments

• Vimeo

  April 1 2013, 9:00am | Comments

• YouTube

  November 8 2012, 6:44am | Comments

• Vimeo

  March 28 2012, 7:38am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Re:Thinking Games

  January 25 2012, 3:50am | Comments

• Bookmark VideoGames can't tell stories

  Games don’t do storytelling well because they can’t deliver the four key components of story. There is no hero. Time is in the control of the player, not the creator. There…

  November 24 2011, 2:53am | Comments

• Bookmark The Constraint Histories of Digital Games

  Attempts to provide a taxonomy of game genres founder on the lack of consistent criteria, and usually have to be arbitrarily assigned. Connecting ‘shooters’ into a lineage suggests scrolling shooters were…

  October 19 2011, 3:25am | Comments

• Bibliography Critical Play: Radical Game Design by M Flanagan

  August 16 2010, 3:50am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Inside Code: A Conversation with Dr. Lane DeNicola and Seph Rodney

  June 13 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Bookmark My Famicase Exhibition 2010

  With its latest entries having just appeared online, the Famicase exhibition -- curated by Tokyo game culture shop Meteor -- once again proves why it's a yearly art/game highlight. The premise?…

  May 13 2010, 5:25am | Comments

• Bookmark Game Design as Make-Believe (4): Fictional Worlds

  When one plays most videogames there is a tacit understanding that one is entering into a fictional world – the term virtual world, is often deployed to mean exactly this. It…

  May 12 2010, 3:28pm | Comments

• Bookmark Video games can never be art

  Having once made the statement above, I have declined all opportunities to enlarge upon it or defend it. That seemed to be a fool's errand, especially given the volume of messages…

  April 18 2010, 3:47pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Avatar: We're Not in Kansas Anymore!

  February 21 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Bookmark This Is The Only Level

  This is the Only Level is a 2D platformer in which you have to guide a boldly unanimated elephant over a series of pits, some of which are filled with spikes,…

  August 15 2009, 6:54pm | Comments

• Bibliography Critical Play

  August 6 2009, 1:28pm | Comments

• Bookmark What do Amnesia, Immortality, and Mind Control have to do with Game…

  What breaks your sense of presence in a story? The culture of video game playing has developed a tolerance for the common practices and limitations in designing and producing games. We’ve…

  July 11 2009, 6:53am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: MonkeyFilter! II Ron Gilbert (Wikipedia) recently sat down with his game, The Secret of Monkey Island, and wrote a commentary track detailing the design, secrets, and cuts made in creating the game. (via)

  June 5 2009, 8:50am | Comments

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