Click Nothing

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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…

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    I can’t remember that moment when I realized that you simultaneously was creative director, lead level designer and script writer…

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  • I’m Sad…

    I totally don’t have the time or the emotional energy to be writing this post, but in fact, I kind of feel like I don’t have the time to not write this post. You see, someone who I don’t know seems to have un-Friended me on Facebook. I first accepted a Friend Request from this…

  • Convergence Culture

    Part Eight: Future Past Seven months ago when I started writing this column, I suspected the things I would be talking about were mostly wishful thinking. The idea that an increasingly entrenched game industry would see value in connecting casual, social or mobile gamers to their blockbuster AAA titles through meaningful gameplay seemed likely to…

  • Convergence Culture

    Part Seven: Agency Beyond the Magic Circle For the past six months, I have been writing about ways to build connections between different games, and by extension, their audiences. I've imagined fashion design games for portable platforms that feed clothing designs to open world games where avatar clothing customization matters. I've imagined social world building…

  • Convergence Culture

    Part Four: An offer that can't be refused Thought Experiment One: imagine Pong, tweaked to be more exciting. Instead of showing the AI paddle on the other side of the screen, we hide from the player everything that happens over the center line. An elegant pacing algorithm tracks the players returns and the score of…

  • Click Nothing Tour 2009 – Part II

    In the beginning, there was nothing It's been a long time in coming, but I have finally put the finishing touches on the Click Nothing Tour 2009. It's going to be a long and complex one, but it should be fun. One talk, seven cities, ten days. The talk, as detailed in a previous post,…

  • iTest

    So this is just a test post. Now that I have myself set up on facebook and (should be) linking all my blog posts there, and now that I have the facebook app on my iPhone, I figured I'd see if the typepad app works. Also testing with a photo just to see if it…