Didn’t Actually Exponentiate
Nicholas Lovell’s GamesBrief has an Interesting look at iPad / iPhone sales figure for Great Little War Game, which is actually a very good (but I would not say great) little strategy game. Co-founder...
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Genre-ifying Time Management Games
I recently got a promotional email from PlayFirst (see above) pushing their “top time management hits” and exhorting me to “check out these fan favorite time management games!” My question: Are there...
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Graduate Studies in Rock, Paper, Scissors
On Tuesday, I started teaching a graduate studies course in the History and Techniques of Games at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. (To prepare, I ran through the Academy’s new faculty...
View ArticlePervasive Gaming and Best Practices at StoryWorld
I was at the StoryWorld conference in San Francisco earlier this week. It’s great to see the beginnings of a cohesive community and body of thought emerge around transmedia and evolving narrative — it...
View ArticleHis Father was the Pope: The Exquisite Corpse of GS623
In the graduate studies course on the history and techniques of games that I’ve been teaching, I have my students create a prose Exquisite Corpse as part of our unit on parlor games. (We are also...
View ArticleWhat’s the Best Definition of Pervasive Gaming?
I’ve just noticed that the Wikipedia page for “pervasive game” redirects to the page for “location-based game,” though I don’t believe the two are congruent. Location-based games leverage the player’s...
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Channel and Content: Facebook vs. the Virtual World
I had the pleasure a few days ago of writing a piece for Wired magazine’s Opinion site on How Facebook Killed the Virtual World (which you can feel free to go and read, if you haven’t already — I’ll...
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Fitting Mobile Games Onto a Board
This is cross-posted from the Quora blog I recently started as an experiment. Why am I cross-posting this here? Who knows… I love the idea of board games based on video games. But I’m not sure whether...
View ArticleStrategy Game Gets Book Deal
The most interesting part of this press release announcing that Ireland-based game company Digit raises US$2.5m is not the financing news, but the last sentence of the release: “Kings of the Realm...
View ArticleHelp Bring the Cardboard Renaissance to South by Southwest
I had the good fortune to attend GenCon a couple of weeks ago (which I’ve written about for Shut Up & Sit Down), and it’s only made me more excited to try to bring some hot cardboard action to...
View ArticleStorytelling Together (Not Bowling Alone)
I’ve always been really interested in the kind of collaborative storytelling that emerges from tabletop games like Dungeons & Dragons and the like, and I keep enough people in my Twitter feed to...
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