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Paper Playscapes is musical chairs with an architectural twist
You can already hear the music.
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When the robots take our jobs, we’ll play games instead
A new survey forecasts a future of less work—and, presumably, a lot more play.
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Fish Plays Pokémon is exactly what it sounds like
Super effective!
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Shockers Bluff is your new dinner party ice breaker
If “Feel the Pain” is your favorite Dinosaur, Jr. song, then you’re in for a treat. Michael Hand of the Revision3’s show DIY Tryin‘ has put together a devious game concept that will surely upset everyone you know and likely send another to the hospital. Titled Shocker’s Bluff, the concept is simple.
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The virtues and pitfalls of playing as a man (if you’re a woman)
Videogames should follow Facebook’s lead on gender.
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The agoraphobia of Project Spark
To play, to create, to have a beer and fall asleep.
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Katamari Damacy and the return of "play" in videogames
Miguel Sicart yearns for a bygone era.
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This jungle gym for adults is beautiful and insane
Design collective creates a public exhibit inspired by instability, levitation and regression.
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Ultima Online dev wants to teach adults to play
After designing Ultima Online, Raph Koster went on to write A Theory of Fun for Game Design, a book for game designers with a lesson for all of us. After ten years, it’s being republished, and its lesson still applies. We need to learn how to have fun. “After we grow up, we sometimes wonder, ‘Where
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Inside the failed, utopian New Games Movement
How a hippy commune prefigured the videogame community’s love of play.
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Astronaut games are simple pleasures
The human capacity to be playful never ceases to amaze. Even while hurtling through space at around 17,500 MPH (a statistic memorized during a childhood of astronautic ambitions) in a metal tube, with almost no leisure time, astronauts still make the time to make up – and play – games. Mostly, they