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Reach the 16th floor by cooperating with previous incarnations of your own cursor. Fun little game concept.
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I’m impressed with this awesome effort to catalogue Thomas Jefferson’s library on LibraryThing. Not so much because I’m into Jefferson, but because of the potential of similar efforts for people I do find interesting. Time to revamp my LT account.
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“The web’s greatest strength, I believe, is often seen as a limitation, as a defect. It is the nature of the web to be flexible, and it should be our role as designers and developers to embrace this flexibility”
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Well-written, accessible article by Greg Costikyan seeking to define games. Over 10 years old but reads like it was written yesterday. “I have to believe that the solitary nature of most computer games is a temporary aberration…”
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Wired’s special on snack culture from a while back. Reference material for my GDC Mobile 2008 talk.
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Fun fact considering that I’ve been spending some time in Estonia lately: “Every Estonian eID holder (around 80% of Estonian population) has an unique OpenID with the format open.id.ee/[firstname].[lastname](.number)”
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“When working with games, it is helpful to consider both the designer and player perspectives. It helps us observe how even small changes in one layer can cascade into others. In addition, thinking about the player encourages experience-driven (as opposed to feature-driven) design.”