Month: November 2007

Now that I have a widescreen Mac and Gmail IMAP I thought I’d give this bun­dle for hor­i­zon­tal lay­out of Mail.app a try. Seems to work fine (not avail­able for Leop­ard yet though.)

Final­ly a Bioshock review that cuts through all the (admit­ted­ly impres­sive) dress­ing and embed­ded nar­ra­tive to arrive at the con­clu­sion that mechan­i­cal­ly speak­ing, it isn’t such an amaz­ing game at all.

Armitage on the new­ly announced S60 touch inter­face. I’m thor­ough­ly under­whelmed by the video – music ripped from The Roots, hor­ri­ble ‘act­ing’… All does­n’t help to sell me on this. The tagline “open to new fea­tures” is pos­si­bly the worst part.

Saf­fer on the impor­tance of com­bin­ing the mak­ing with the think­ing in design. Of course the ques­tion becomes: What is ‘mak­ing’ in a mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary design con­text such as the one I find myself in as an IxD? Good stuff nonetheless.

“I see both advo­cates and detrac­tors often use Richard [Bartle]’s paper in ways that con­flicts with my own expe­ri­ence. Here are some of the ways I would sug­gest recon­sid­er­ing how you use this impor­tant paper” Via Tom Armitage.

Dis­agree with point one, agree with point two. And like Mr Jones, I’m quite sure this also applies to web design.

A lot of sta­tis­tics on past ARGs. Pret­ty thor­ough and inter­est­ing stuff. Via the IGDA ARG SIG mail­ing list.

“Com­put­er games, archi­tec­ture and urban­ism: the next lev­el” — An inter­est­ing look­ing book col­lect­ing essays, reviews and inter­views from a wide range of luminaries.