editor’s letter
Editor’s Letter: Public Play
A smuggled arcade behind a hair salon in Bridgetown, and what it says about where games are going next.
public play
Dance Dance Revolution
Dancing King
A man, a jig, and a machine
Tracy Fullerton
Masterful Play
In this adaptation of her mini-talk from the 2009 Game Developers Conference, Tracy Fullerton introduces the concept of “masterful play” and illustrates what it means to players, and their audiences.
Toronto Public Library
Permanent Collection
Do videogames deserve a place on library shelves?
Time Crisis II
40 Seconds of Fame
The rise and rise of a light-gun aficionado
OMMRPG
How to Play: OMMRPG
Two teams, eight mirrors and a laser beam that may never touch the goal directly. A Korean design team’s field game, first played in an Amsterdam gasworks.
Humans vs. Zombies
How to Play: Humans Vs. Zombies
A multi-day campus tag game of bandanas, foam darts and rolled-up socks. Its creators explain how a failed Assassins variant became an infection.
Richard Lemarchand
How to Play: Ninja
A turn-based folk game of frozen poses and taps on the hand that spread through U.S. campuses from nowhere. Richard Lemarchand explains how it is played.
Fatal1ty
The Joy of Public Pwning
Fatal1ty pwns me in front of a hundred str4ng3rs