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Blueprints for game designers who want to express meaning through systems
There has been a lot of talk about how developers can use game mechanics and game design to be expressive of the human condition. If you need a point of reference, just think of Jonathan Blow’s Braid and Jason Rohrer’s Passage. Recently, Michael Thomsen wrote an article about it for our site. Still,
This footage from the Mars Rover will bring a tear to your eye
HTML5HTML5360p MP4Flash Mars is not in black and white. Listen to the sounds of the wind as it pushes the little Mars Rover around and makes you question the totality of existence. Or something. [via]
There’s Gonna Be A Showdown
Your drummer and bassist refuse to speak to one other, and your lead singer has spearheaded a floundering solo-project. So what? It’s time to get the band back together. Kill Screen is co-sponsoring Chicago Loot Drop, a totally rockin’ Rock Band 3 competition at Reggie’s Rock Club on November 20th.
What do the new changes to the rules of golf mean for the game?
Golf is an inherently simple sport: Hit the ball, see if it goes in the hole. If it doesn’t, repeat until it does. It also comes packaged with a Byzantine set of rules, many of which seem designed to punish you for doing nothing wrong. Now, two of the more insane penalties-namely the player being pe
Game designers did not revolutionize football
But they tried! During Practice, the inaugural game design conference put on by New York University, game designers tried to denaturalize the sport of football, and ended up with a simple conclusion: that when you take away all its trappings, football is a set of systems that players must engage wit
As prep for Murdoch questioning, Watson plays Portal 2
Before Parliament’s Tom Watson grilled James Murdoch this morning, he tweeted about the night’s preparations. Late, late night playing Portal 2. Early, early morning drafting questions and listening to The Clash on full blast. #brandnewcadillac How has Portal 2 (or the Clash) figured into your publi
Metrics used to track tweets, Elven
[Above: A map of Tweets and Flickr uploads by Eric Fischer.] It seems your ex isn’t the only one reading your public tweets. According to The Atlantic, the CIA maintains a social-media tracking center operated out of an nondescript building in a Virginia industrial park. The intelligence analysts… a
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