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“Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish”: Steve Jobs’ Stanford Commencement Address 2005
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backwards.”
Creating Consistent SF-Worlds V
This is the fifth post in a ten-part series about my Game Design workshop “Creating Consistent SF-Worlds” at the Mediadesign Hochschule in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Creating Consistent SF-Worlds IV
This is the fourth post in a ten-part series about my Game Design workshop “Creating Consistent SF-Worlds” at the Mediadesign Hochschule in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Creating Consistent SF-Worlds III
This is the third post in a ten-part series about my Game Design workshop “Creating Consistent SF-Worlds” at the Mediadesign Hochschule in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Editing Characters
“The Indecisive Novelist’s Characters”: Tom Gauld seems determined to draw brilliant cartoons that perfectly illustrate major topics from each of my categories.
Creating Consistent SF-Worlds II
This is the second post in a ten-part series about my Game Design workshop “Creating Consistent SF-Worlds” at the Mediadesign Hochschule in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Creating Consistent SF-Worlds I
This is the first post in a ten-part series about my Game Design workshop “Creating Consistent SF-Worlds” at the Mediadesign Hochschule in Düsseldorf, Germany.
My Doctoral Thesis Template, or: How You Learn to Stop Worrying and Love OpenOffice.org
Two years late but here it is: my OpenOffice.org thesis template, up for grabs under a Creative Commons license.
How Many True Female Characters Are There in Games?
A few, but certainly not many. (But it’s not like we’re overrun with great male characters either.)
The Price of Everything: Book Trailer Storytelling Evolved
One of the best book trailers I’ve ever seen.
Some Old Spoof: “Three True But Pointless Arguments of Pea Counting Supporters”
Some form principles, it turns out, are surprisingly robust and can sustain even the most nonsensical content.
campus lost
Ein historisches Dokument, gewissermaßen. Denn im Gegensatz zu Scheinen lassen sich Leistungspunkte nicht in humanistischem Tonfall parodieren.
Skiffy
“The gleaming synthetic permapolish leather holster held a proton blaster. Bat Durston pulled out the deadly weapon and thumbed the power pack release.”
Antagonist and Impact Character in Inception
There seems to be some confusion about who the Antagonist might be in Inception but frankly, I can’t see any problems here. Everything has its place, and cleverly so.
Book-Cut Storytelling: Three Stills and a Lemon
Three well executed book-cuts from the Czech Republic plus a German letter-cut with a pedestrian copy like you wouldn’t believe.
Narrativity and Diachronic vs. Episodic Self-Experience: Observing the Self
Is that a Cartesian Theater which I see before me? What Strawson’s self-observation lacks in methodology, it makes up for with psychological entitlement.
Inception Dream Architecture: Infographic Contest Winner
I started to try and sketch Inception’s dramatic structure (in words, not in pictures), and this greatly helps: Co.Design’s Inception Infographic Contest!
Angels
I barely remember this poem of yore I happened to come across the other day. It creaks & grates, and I have only the most vague idea about what it was supposed to be about.
Narrativity and Diachronic vs. Episodic Self-Experience: Reading Literature
If that’s all the witnesses and the testimony you can muster in your favor, you might as well try and get to Mexico while you still have time.
New Particle Physics Framework Teaser That’ll Make Your Jaw Drop (And Haz Bunnies)
It’s called “Lagoa Multiphysics,” developed by Thiago Costa. But will it blend, in terms of storytelling, if games become ever more realistic?