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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: Lectures

  • L’exploration

    So I had the opportunity to do a kind of trial run of my GDC presentation for the local Montreal IGDA Chapter last week. While I wasn’t super happy with it, it was really just a first draft, and I’ve been working on it on and off since. Should have a much better version in…

  • I Explore

    Sweet. My GDC 2007 presentation got accepted. It’s about exploration in games. Different kinds of it, how it works, what draws players into exploring, how to design to support it, and how to leverage it to broaden the expressive space of your game. This should be a challenging one. One of the things I love…

  • #$%& 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.…

  • 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…

  • Givin’ Mario the Smackdown

    The new IGN Readers Choice list of the Top 100 games of all time just pegged Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory at #18. That puts it one ahead of Super Mario 64 (suck it down plumber-boy), and one behind GTA: San Andreas – which in my honest opinion should be a lot higher than 17th. They…

  • Futureplay and Toronto

    Just got back from the Futureplay 2006 conference in London, Ontario yesterday, where I got to give my first ever keynote. That was pretty exciting. The other keynote speakers were Justin Roche, Sheri Graner Ray, Don Daglow, and Ken Perlin, so very flattering to be among that roster. I gave the same presentation the following…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…