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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: Open World Games

  • 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 Six: Platform Jumping For the last five parts of this series I talked around the issue of Single Player games and their place in the intramedia landscape I have been describing. I've looked at how social world building games like Farmville might seed content into SP game worlds. I've looked at how mobile apps…

  • 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…

  • Citizen Naruto

    So back at Christmas 2007, I snagged a copy of my studio's Naruto game – Naruto: Rise of a Ninja (not our more recent sequel Naruto: The Broken Bond, which by all accounts is even better). I finally got around to playing it a bit, and honestly, I'm really enjoying it. Consider first that, as…

  • In Sid We Trust

    "You say you want a Revolution. Well, you know, we all wanna change the world." Change the world? As far as I'm concerned, for the first time since Alpha Centauri, Civilization:Revolution [2] has allowed me to do it. More than that, it has, itself, changed the world. I never played Civ or Civ 2. The first time…

  • Gamasutra Interview

    So immediately following my GDC presentation, I did an interview with Bonnie Ruberg from Gamasutra, which is now up on their site. It goes into a few more details about the talk, and Bonnie also asked a few good questions about gender issues in exploration… some stuff I hadn’t thought much about.