Links for 2007-11-28

In Links on 28 November 2007 with no comments

• Steven Poole: Trigger Happier
  Poole is giving his book on video game culture away on his blog. Never read it, not sure it’s any good, but still noteworthy I’d say.
  (tags: games gaming culture aesthetics books free stevenpoole)
• stamen design | Splatter: now (re) available for download
  Stamen republishes the source code to the nice little software sketch that simulates throwing paint on a canvas.
  (tags: stamen painting splatter opensource code sketching)
• handcircus » Blog Archive » iPhone dev
  Oliver starts sinking his teeth in indie iPhone game dev and likes what he sees on first sight. Will be paying close attention to any stuff that might come out of this.
  (tags: iphone gamedevelopment indie)
• Ian Bogost – My Week at Kotaku
  A list of posts written during Bogost’s run on Kotaku.
  (tags: games culture gaming play indie blogging ianbogost)
• Lost Garden: Project Horseshoe 2007 slides: Smashing the game design atom
  Cook continues to publish kick ass stuff on how games work and how to improve game design. This is his presentation for Project Horseshoe. The best part is the actual graph of a player burning out on Tetris.
  (tags: models players grammar games metrics testing development design danielcook)
• BGG Wiki::Board Game Gift Guide 2007 | BoardGameGeek
  A list of good board games, amongst which some nice two player options. Via Matt B and Tom A.
  (tags: games boardgames twoplayers lists play)

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