Category: Links

“if we can under­stand these game lay­ers as a place where we’re con­ven­ing rather than the place where we’re all depart­ing from, I think there’s a lot of beau­ti­ful things still left to do” Good stuff as always from Mr. Slavin.

Love­ly event review includ­ing some good food for thought.

Gian­fran­co inter­view­er us and wrote up a love­ly review of This hap­pened — Utrecht #7.

Iskan­der reports on our lat­est edi­tion. I am real­ly pleased the val­ue of reflec­tion in action shines through.

“The minute you start iden­ti­fy­ing with a sub­cul­ture… you kind of lose indi­vid­u­al­i­ty, sur­ren­der part of your iden­ti­ty, and we don’t wan­na do that.”

Seth van der Meer laat weinig heel van een klaagstuk in Else­vi­er over ver­meende over­sub­si­die van de NL games industrie.

“a vast por­tion of con­scious cog­ni­tion emerges as a post-processed ratio­nal­iza­tion of our body’s phys­i­cal inter­ac­tions with the world. Feed your sub­con­scious cog­ni­tion by cre­at­ing sys­tems you can touch, see and play with directly”

“they don’t bring all the tal­ent­ed peo­ple who build games on staff, but instead rely on a more net­worked con­cept where tal­ent assem­bles for the dura­tion of a project and then are free to work togeth­er again in the future”. Which is more or less how I set up Hubbub.

This GDC report con­tains a good sum­ma­ry of Kather­ine Isbis­ter’s talk on the design of move­ment game inter­ac­tions as well as a talk by Chris Heck­er on the poten­tial harm­ful­ness of achieve­ment systems.

“…the prob­lem isn’t dis­tractibil­i­ty per se — the prob­lem is dis­tractibil­i­ty cou­pled with a fail­ure to curate our thoughts”. Which is why I am adding this to Deli­cious and not just tweet­ing it.

Daniel Cook’s new stu­dio shares some sim­i­lar­i­ties with Hub­bub. Both fol­low the con­tem­po­rary film stu­dio set­up, with teams of free agents con­verg­ing around projects.

I read these sug­ges­tions for ways to move beyond user cen­tred design main­ly as a cry for a shift from a dehu­man­ised ‘objec­tive’ stance to an involved, sub­jec­tive one.

Niels zegt waar het op staat en heeft gelijk. Terug in je hok, Hirsch Ballin!

“The hot new lit­er­ary form is the “liv­ing nov­el,” con­stant­ly being re-writ­ten in real-time. This is excit­ing in a lot of ways; it’s also frus­trat­ing. You read a sec­tion that moves you, and you want to share it with a friend—but by the time she gets to it, it’s gone, replaced by some weird pas­sage about the his­to­ry of bee­keep­ing.” That has to be an Ilove­bees ref­er­ence. I am get­ting the creep­ing sus­pi­cion that this ebook thing might trig­ger a revival of inter­ac­tive fic­tion as well as ARGish weird­ness. Just a gut feeling.

“Many of them are miss­ing the irony in Cow Click­er, says Bogost, and that scares him; instead, they “pea­cock about what fea­tures I might add or how I’ve missed oppor­tu­ni­ties for viral­i­ty,” he says. “Those reac­tions fill me with sor­row and dread.”” I like Cow Click­er, I think mak­ing things to com­ment on stuff is good. I can­not believe peo­ple would take it at face val­ue and not see the crit­i­cal aspect of it.

“We’re all media cyborgs now.” We might not be Kanye West but we can cer­tain­ly employ media to expand our pres­ence in the world, which is pret­ty crazy if you think about it. Via Tom.

Won­der­ful. Seems like a nat­ur­al tran­si­tion from his games.