A couple years ago, I was invited by the fine folks at ITU-Copenhagen to give a talk for the Nordic Game Jam. I’d never been to a game jam before and obviously, the chance to get to Denmark was incentive enough, but what I saw was amazing. Aside from the first play session of Johann Sebastian Joust
Theresa Christy has the coolest job in the world. As a mathematician for Otis Elevator company, she’s spent more than a quarter-century tweaking how things go up. She also knows that the longest we’ll wait for a door to close is 20 seconds, Japan has the smoothest rides, and the average American rid
You know that annual study that quantifies how much money is lost through hours of unproductive worktime during March Madness? Well, I’ve got news for the bosses of the world: browser-based gaming is the final frontier of workplace time-wasting. It’s not enough that we’ve got browser-based SNES emu
According to the comment thread in r/gaming, this big version of one of last year’s very best indie games was set up at Fantastic Fest in Austin. Heroic work.
The first act of Kentucky Route Zero, the new adventure game by Jake Elliott (our eminently talented web designer) and Tamas Kemenczy, is out today. KRZ is …a magical realist adventure game about a secret highway in the caves beneath Kentucky, and the mysterious folks who travel it. Gameplay is insp
I was catching up on some late fall Instapaper reading and got around to reading Gareth Cook’s marvellous exploration into the world of autism in the work place. The article follows Thorkil Sonne who was spurred by his son Lars’ own autism to find a creative way for those diagnosed with autism to fi
More than twelve years after it released the system in North America, Sony will no longer produce new PlayStation 2s. The system, which sold 150 million units worldwide, was released in the United States on October 26, 2000. To give you a sense of just how durable Sony’s persistent black rectangle w
Don’t sell yourself short on the duck-spotting though.