links for 2007-11-28

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.

Sta­men repub­lish­es the source code to the nice lit­tle soft­ware sketch that sim­u­lates throw­ing paint on a canvas.

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.

A list of posts writ­ten dur­ing Bogost’s run on Kotaku.

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.

A list of good board games, amongst which some nice two play­er options. Via Matt B and Tom A.