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    I’m one of the author’s in the 2022 opdc (didn’t win anything, still trying to bear up under the shame…

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    Thank you for this very interesting collection, and for wrestling with the obviously mixed feelings on this anniversary. And thank…

Category: Art

  • Here’s lookin’ at you – algorithm…

    Two interesting links floated around work in the last couple days. Both related to visualizations of information or information processes. One was this beautiful work being done by Alex Dragulescu at MIT Media Lab where he is feeding patterns from software viruses into 3D software to create visual representations of what they ‘look like’… and…

  • A Teacher’s Primer

    Middle of last week, The Globe and Mail published an interesting and well-written article about the Canadian Teacher’s Federation (ironically abbreviated ‘CTF‘) calling for a ban on the X360 and Wii release of Rockstar’s Bully: Scholarship Edition. Before getting into it I want to praise the unbiased and seemingly well-informed writing of the article itself…

  • Can a computer game make you cry?

    Yes. (thanks to Pat who sent the link)

  • Festival du Nouveau Cinema Presentation

    So I had the opportunity to give a presentation at the Festival du Nouveau Cinema here in Montreal yesterday. The theme of this years Festival was ‘Immersion’ and much of the Festival was devoted to exploring new techniques in displaying film (360 degree projection, 3d, etc), and as a component of the Festival they did…

  • Ludonarrative Dissonance in Bioshock

    The problem of what the game is about [traduit en francais ici] About a year ago, I praised Ian Bogost's critique of Bully and lamented the unfortunate lack of game criticism, as distinct from game reviews. Roughly speaking, we could say game criticism is for game developers and professionals who want to think about the…

  • Braid goes Live

    It’s already floating around a couple other places, but I wanted to make sure to post it here too, since I was late to the party the last time people got to talking about Braid. The MTV interview really impressed me, and I’ve had dinner a couple of times with Jon in the last year…

  • Vederman Throws Down the Gauntlet

    So for those who don’t already know, my game grabbed the cover of PC Gamer (US) for our exclusive unveiling. It’s the October Issue, on shelves now. It’s packed with details, well written, and I think the smart lay-out really leverages some of the look and feel elements we’re shooting for in the game, which…

  • Reading Between the Lines

    Smarty-pants Jane over at Game Girl Advance picks the bones clean on my last post and gets to one of the points I only managed to gloss over – that of procedural literacy and how us folks who create in this medium need to be ‘literate’ in the ‘language’ of systems before we can express…

  • On Authorship in Games

    Not that long ago, famed film critic Roger Ebert stated that games are not, and indeed, cannot be, art. Recently, following up on a response made by author/game convergence guy Clive Barker at the Hollywood And Games Summit, Ebert clarified his claims. Ebert’s basic argument is that art requires authorship, and that games abdicate authorship…

  • Smith -vs- God

    Well, I guess if you really believe in abdicating authorship, disagreeing with the church is as good a place as any to draw the line given that they’ve thrown in their chips with the biggest author of ’em all. Sarcasm aside, I’m glad Harvey stood up and fired back on this, because this whole thing…