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Frontier fiction: The Emotion Elective

AMARA would always marvel at the human capacity for self-deception; the ability to believe something even though the facts were plentiful for the contrary, even though nothing but faith supported…
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Current Inspirations

Portal - for the non-violent nature of it and the neat teleportation physics puzzles. And removing half of the stupid ways to die. And for this. Mirror's Edge on iPad…
Posted inGame Design Videogames

Games in Education

I believe that my playing of games has contributed positively to my development as an individual. Traditionally advocacy for gaming has included the development of teamwork and leadership skills, understanding…
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BLOC54 – GameStorming

Equally useful for the development of tabletop game ideas, this method was used tonight to brainstorm some ideas for videogames in our local game development cluster.
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The Fun Theory

When designing games I tend to think about what will make the game more 'sticky'. At the start, I can usually enthuse someone about a game by talking to them…
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8 Bit Demakes

This article describes 8 bit de-makes - remaking some of todays popular games in 8 bit and 16 bit forms. Some of them still look amazing such as Little Big…
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I would not have played if…

From Wired: A federal judge is allowing a negligence lawsuit to proceed against the publisher of the online virtual-world game Lineage II, amid allegations that a Hawaii man became so…
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Review of 20 non-video games at Gamasutra

Gamasutra has an interesting set of articles on real-world game design. [Game Design Essentials returns with an extensive review of some of the most interesting non-electronic games, from traditional cultural…
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Primer: One of the Best Sci-Fi Movies

Shane Carruth, writer and director of the lo-fi scifi flick Primer, has uploaded the entire film to Google Video so you can watch it for free. The plot is quite…
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Reunited

Today I moved about 150 kgs of my gaming collection to my house from my parents house. Keen-eyed geeks will be able to easily identify some of the game books…
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Superheroes

In terms of special effects, I'd love to know how they do the superhero style special effects like in in Hancock and more recently, an EMINEM video (forward to about…