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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

  • A Fearsome Foursome

    So I’m glad to see that something good came out of E3. MTV hosted The Game Designer’s Roundtable which they now have hosted here. It’s a roundtable style discussion of some hot topics in the industry featuring Harvey Smith, Will Wright, David Jaffe and Cliff Blezinski. Every one of these guys is something of a…

  • Intentionality vs Strategy

    Following my presentation at GDC, someone asked me the very compelling question, ‘What is the difference between Intentionality and Strategy?’ I thought this was a great question, and I did not have a ready answer, though I promised to explore the problem and come up with one. It’s a difficult question, and I wrestled with…

  • Sneaky Bastards

    The last issue of The Escapist has a pretty good article by Will Hindmarch about enriching the immersive play experience through the use of NPC dialog. The games he draws on for his examples are Thief: The Dark Project (one of my all time favorite games) and my own last game, Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory.…

  • GDC 06 Materials Uploaded

    I know I promised them within 48 hours, but 60 hours will have to do. Sorry for the short delay. I expect to get around to posting my overview of the conference in general later this week – maybe in multiple parts. A couple of additional things related to this presentation will come soon as…

  • Kuratowski’s Theorem – The Game!

    Finally someone has made a game that allows he player the skirt the edges of the fearsome Kuratowski theorem and open up some whoop-ass on K5 and K3,3 – two bosses that you normally would not want to mess with unless you have a Masters in Graph Theory. Actually – I find this little puzzle…

  • Sherbrooke

    I had the pleasure of going out to Sherbrooke University yesterday to give a presentation there as part of their Série ExperTIse hiver 2006. Due to relatively short notice and the fact that I was preparing and practicing my GDC 2006 presentation in the same window, I gave the presentation that I had previously done…