Want to learn to play Dwarf Fortress? O’Reilly has a 238-page book to teach you.
It’s in the programming section. Ha.
Jamin Warren
562 postsJamin Warren founded Killscreen. He produced the first VR arts festival with the New Museum, programmed the first Tribeca Games Festival, the first arcade at the Museum of Modern Art, won a Telly, and hosted Game/Show for PBS.
Johannesburg gets its first indie game and music festival.
I connected with A MAZE festival organizer Thorsten S. Wiedemann about a year ago in Berlin when he told me about his forthcoming plans to bring an indie game festival to South Africa’s largest city. It’s finally happening.: From August 28th to September 2nd 2012 the A MAZE. Interact Festival will b
NYC’s Eyebeam Art + Technology Center seeks expansion.
Chelsea’s Eyebeam gallery has been home to some of our favorite digital projects and some of our favorite game designers. Matt Parker, who organized our SF party earlier this year was a fellow as was Kaho Abe, who we featured in Issue 2. Now they’re looking for help to build out their space: The rec
If you want a primer on indie games, now’s the time.
The fifth iteration of the Humble Indie Bundle has added Super Meat Boy and Braid to its already stacked roster of Limbo, Psychonauts, and Bastion. Got a friend who needs an intro to games? Now’s a good time to be a pal.
"Let’s face it, politics in this country is coin-operated."
That’s Gateway computer founder Ted Waitt who recently launched a centrist Super-PAC. [via Mother Jones]
What would happen if you play StarCraft as a pacifist? An Occupy Wall Street protestor?
Dan Wilkerson may not consider himself a performance artist, but his role-playing on StarCraft II has a distinctly disruptive feel. Rather than engage in martial combat, Wilkerson adopts a role, ad libs the dialogue, and screen caps the result. This is basically Improv Everywhere for Terrans. Below
Enjoy Madden while it lasts. This concussion lawsuit may put the NFL on the ropes.
Malcolm Gladwell called it. Kids might play Madden someday with the same incredulity as Pitfighter and ask “Did we really used to do that?” HuffPo reports on the lawsuit’s accusation that the NFL knew the risks, but did nothing: The NFL, like the sport of boxing, was aware of the health risks associ
Want to close the gender gap in tech? Make girls play more videogames.
Dana Goldstein ties high-paying jobs in tech to young girls playing more games. The effects of this gender gap reach far beyond whether women are building video games or coding Web apps alongside men (and making technology female-friendly—remember the Siri/abortion flap? Or the more recent dust-up o
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