Tag Archive for ‘temes & transitions’
Ludotronics: On Exploration
Whatever it is you’re working on, always make sure to remind yourself to go explore.
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.
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
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.
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!
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.
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.”
Quick, Catch a Glimpse of the New World Order!
I’d say reality has already become a science fiction movie, and what we all still think of as the present is in reality the past.
More Days of Glass: Why “Future Vision” Concepts Like These Are Useless at Best (and Misleading at Worst)
Microsoft and RIM: more future visions for the digital-age Eloi. Is it so hard to sketch a world where innovative technologies work for real people?
Jeff Jarvis vs. Evgeny Morozov: Public Parts vs. Publicisaurus Rex
Not afraid of Freud, Morozov deploys the term ”intellectual” a record 23 times like a cohort of thugs.