So, my first semester teaching interactive story design on the Game Cultures BA has come to a close. It's been a fun experience, and it...
RIM's Q3 Financials: A Tale of Two BlackBerries
People have been asking for my take on RIM's latest quarterly earnings, which were reported last week ( link ). The short answer is tha...
Stories in Unlikely Places No.2: Tribes: Vengeance
Tribes: Vengeance is one of the most subtly subversive multiplayer games ever made. Not a lot of people know that. This is the second in a s...
The Theory Behind In-Game Failure
As a topic for theory, failure states aren't new. If you're providing the player a challenge, the traditional way to handle his fail...
Environmental Narrative Panel: Vid, Write Up & a Note on Subliminal Signposting
Last week's panel discussion on environmental narrative went well. We had a full house (though didn't stretch to standing room onl...
Why Zombies as a Genre Are Here to Stay
I heart zombies. Not just in a geeky, B-movie kind of a way (though props to Zombi 2 ), and not just from the perspective of a horror video ...
4 More Free Web-games...
...because free web-games generate hits. And also because, just like commercial release, or XBLA, or the AppStore, there's a shit load o...
Why Free is the Future: 5 Must Play Free Games
I was giving an interview to a journo from Moviescope magazine today, for a piece he was putting together on the interplay between interact...
Is Symbian dead? And if so, who killed it?
"We should declare victory and go home." --Apocryphal quote attributed to George David Aiken I hesitate to write anything abou...
London Writing Panel Appearence: Interactive Story Telling for an Interactive Medium
The IGDA has just announced a new games writing panel that's going to be held in London the week after next. It's going to star some...
Die2Nite: Free Keys for the New Web-Based Zombie MMO
I was contacted a little while after posting that fascinating interview with Zombie / RPG hero, Brian Mitsoda, by someone else with a Zombi...
Will E-Readers Eat the Tablet Computer?
The consensus prediction in the tech industry is that tablet computer sales will swamp sales of ebook readers. The Huffington Post is takin...
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