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Chris Crawford’s Dragon

How the Games Industry Killed the Dragon Chris Crawford Went Out to Slay

While the Dragon was vanquished, it wasn’t vanquished in the way we hoped.

Yellow Brick Road

Not Even Dreams: From Oz’s Yellow Brick Road to The Division 2’s Capitol

Experiences, all experiences, are inside our heads; and inside our heads, all our experiences are real.

ludotronics.net

Ludotronics: On Lectures, Levels, and Learning Outcomes

In terms of learning outcomes, game levels have a lot in common with university lectures and can be planned in similar ways.

Ludotronics

Ludotronics: On Exploration

Whatever it is you’re working on, always make sure to remind yourself to go explore.

Ludotronics

Release: Ludotronics

Release of my book Ludotronics: A Comprehensive Game Design Methodology From First Ideas to Spectacular Pitches and Proposals for intermediate and advanced game designers.

“Voted ‘Best English Village Simulation App’ 2015”

Another Tom Gauld cartoon that cracks me up.

Mediadesign Hochschule

Game Design, Digitalisierung, Gamifizierung: Unser Digitalk-Vortrag bei der Digitalen Stadt Düsseldorf in der MD.H

Spielmechanismen für die Digitalisierung von Gesellschaft und Geschäftsmodellen und persönlichen Lebenswelten von Gesundheit bis Arbeitsmotivation

Ethics in Gaming Journalism

The “Actually, It’s About Ethics in Journalism!” Game

Please note: You might not be able to sign out again. Ever.

Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor

What’s Wrong with NPCs?—One of Numerous Questions Austin Walker Nails Perfectly

In most video games most of the time, non-player characters are the meat in the player character’s power fantasy sandwich.

Revealing Photograph (click to embiggen)

Wait, Did I Really Wear a Watch in My Teens? (Revealing Photo Unearthed)

There were many reasons to wear a watch, and it was never really about Time. With smart watches, or Apple Watch, that might change.

Aliens: Colonial Marines — Let’s Sue This Whole Mess from Orbit, It’s the Only Way to Be Sure

Ha! hold my Brain; be still my beating Heart.

Can Somebody Draw a Videogame Metaphor Cartoon Just Like This One, Only With Cats?

Just kiddin’. Another great cartoon about gaming, a few months old already, that’s too good to not being reposted on my blog!

“You talkin’ to me?”: Dial-Up Sound, Visualized

Bleeoo SCREEEEEEE!

“Meanwhile, in Space”

Unloading supplies onto the International Space Station.

Côte Basque: Route de la Corniche by J. Martin

The Inception Tool: “Planting the Idea Into the Memory of the Machine That Every Password is Correct”

Most late postmodernity-flavored exploitation tool ever.

“Insure copyright. All other considerations secondary. Culture expendable.” — How It Wasn’t Bots That Killed the Hugo Awards

Imagine our culture as the Nostromo.

Game Companies Are Your Friends! (All of ’em Dudes, of course, and One Adorable Kitty)

Just too good to not repost this on my blog.

Corning: Made of Ass

Oh, and I heard that some $21 trillion dollars have been misplaced.

Uploading Your Brain “The Winter Market”-Style? Not soonish!

PZ Myers is the wet towel in our echo chambers of grandiose ideas.

From Prosthetic Memory to Cities to #OWS to Time Machines: Terrific TV Interview with William Gibson

“The only real time machine is just getting older. It’s very slow, but eventually—it eventually gets you to the 21st century. Or the 22nd.”