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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: Games

  • GDC – Part II – Exploration

    The slides and the accompanying paper for my GDC presentation are up for anyone interested. There were three questions people asked after the presentation that I think really contributed to the talk and enhanced even my own understanding of the topic (there were other very good questions too, but these three were the ones I…

  • GDC – Part I – San Francisco

    Just got out of bed from a nap after my red-eye back from San Francisco and thought I’d fire up my first few thoughts about GDC this year. I’ll probably do a few posts about GDC in the coming days, as well as find a chance to put up the slides for my talk, though…

  • From Telefilm to Telemachus

    So I’ve been doing this for a couple months now and just never had the time to post about it. Telefilm Canada is running the Great Canadian Video Game Competition, which invites independent Canadian developers to propose projects and get funding for development. From all of the entries to the competition, the jury (which includes…

  • Sports Injuries – Elbows and Egos

    A couple little news items that made me laugh and cry this week. First is the Wall Street Journal covering so-called ‘Wii-elbow’. No other way to decribe it than a kind of culture shock arising from the collision between a bunch of fat, lazy pre-diabetics suddenly finding their sedentary life-styles in conflict with their insatiable…

  • Here Wii Go

    So I don’t actually have my Wii in my dirty little mitts yet, but I should tomorrow or at the lastest by mid-week. Ubi arranged to have a bunch of them ordered for employees, so I managed to get one through them. No bargain price or anything, but at least I don’t have to stand…

  • I Stand Corrected – partly

    Just yesterday I blogged that Patrick Dugan had provided a very insightful critique/analysis of the game Ayiti: The Cost of Life, and I complained that it was "a shame more games are not reviewed or critiqued with such insight". Next thing you know, Jurie, over at Intelligent-Artifice points to Ian Bogost’s brilliant critique of Bully,…

  • Ayiti: The Cost of Life

    Bad me. I hadn’t heard about this game until I read about it on Patrick’s blog yesterday, where he provides a very eloquent analysis of the game, its strategies, and the statements that those strategies ultimately make. It’s a shame more games are not reviewed or critiqued with such insight. Thanks Patrick. I played the…

  • #$%& Fun

    How the hell did I miss this? A year or so ago it started to dawn on me that there were problems with the notion of fun. At first, I started ot think that maybe ‘fun’ was merely a formal quality of games – the same way rhyme and meter were formal qualities of poetry.…

  • Tears of War

    Probably by now, everyone has seen the new Gears of War trailer. With apologies to the gang at Epic (without whose engine I would still be an unemployed writer), I’ll be the first to admit that I’ve had some doubts about Gears. It’s not that I don’t think Gears will be a top-notch adrenaline-pumping shooter…

  • Post Futureplay Podcast Interview

    Dave Brodbeck, a psychology professor at Algoma U, who I met at Futureplay also does a podcast. He grabbed me after my keynote there and we did a little interview. You can listen to it here, or download it for direct from this link. Good questions and good interview, thanks Dave. It’s good to have…