_Schism_ is an online, persistent-world multiplayer game that aspires to improve upon the cooperative experience currently delivered by popular casual games on the Facebook platform by deriving social mechanics from hardcore massively multiplayer online role-playing games. In _Schism_, players band together to help build their small town into a prosperous city. Players’ actions in the [...]

“http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2010/04/26/bisa0426.htm”:http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2010/04/26/bisa0426.htm Hell yes. bq. A table-top card battle game, “The Healing Blade” is built around a fantasy world, complete with sorcerers, villains and heroines that the two doctors created. Characters are divided into The Apothecary Healers, named after real-world antibiotics, and The Lords of Pestilence, named after actual bacterial agents. Dr. Mathews, a hospitalist and [...]

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… okay, back to programming. x_x

From Clark Kromenaker and Andrew Ogden The most valuable feedback we received from playtesting were critiques of the movement controls. Some people were confused by the use of left/right with circular movement, and everyone had precision issues with moving the ship (this issue has already been resolved as a response to the complaints). People also [...]

Really great video: “Jesse Schnell, Design Outside the Box, DICE 2010″:http://g4tv.com/videos/44277/DICE-2010-Design-Outside-the-Box-Presentation/. Things said that struck me: * “And then you combine that with the psychological idea that… the rationalizion: anything you spend time on, you start to believe “this must be worthwhile. Why? Because I’ve spent time on it. And therefore it must be worth [...]

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The IMD class of 2010 is proud to present: SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED, an exhibition of thesis projects in-progress. Participating Exhibitors : Lulu Cao, Ala’ Diab, Bryan Jaycox, Cynthia Nie, Taiyoung Ryu, Nahil Sharkasi, Peter Van Dyke, Brandi Wilcox. The third years have been slaving away and it’s time to officially unveil what progress we’ve made. We are located [...]

The game I played all week: Farmville h3. 1) Who’s playing – what’s their motivation? Mostly I tried Farmville to see what all the hubbub was about, as well as the fact that it was the game that most of my friends were playing and/or tried at one point or another. And, a week later, [...]

“http://groups.google.com/group/schism_thesis”:http://groups.google.com/group/schism_thesis

Request membership and I’ll approve you right away. (probably. cookies help. >_> )

“An abbreviated Schism presentation”:http://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AX4I9BBVhUfSZGdmNWgzdjVfNDdrc3RkaGRmZw&hl=en.

Guess it was only a matter of time?

“Rehab available in U.S. for Web addicts”:http://www.statesman.com/business/content/business/stories/technology/2009/09/07/0907internetaddiction.html.

Just in case you were interested in seeing the “WoW Art Show that Peter linked to”:http://interactive.usc.edu/membersmedia/pbrinson/archives/010205.html a while back and haven’t yet… Let me know if you’re going with friends, as I happen to have 2-for-1 passes, courtesy of this year’s BlizzCon goody bags. Normally I would use them myself, but my friends and I [...]

These are really amazing.

“Top 45 Unusual Stylish Super Mario Brothers Artworks”:http://thedesigninspiration.com/articles/top-45-unusual-stylish-super-mario-brothers-artworks/.

bq. Design a timepiece. It may be one that functions conventionally, in which case you would creatively exploit its changing “face”, or, there is also the option to construct a device that responds to light changes, tides, seasons, etc. In either case, you should work for a synthesis of function and image in which change [...]

… again. Just posting this, cause I never did earlier and I finally put it up in a relatively permanent location. It’s the rewritten version of a one week project that I did earlier in the semester for thesis prep, about alternative methods for player work in games. It’s not terribly sophisticated, but I had [...]

“One page proposal for Microsoft Surface.”:/membersmedia/cnie/2009/04/1_page_proposal_for_microsoft/cnie-ms_surface_proposal.doc

All it’s missing is a save / link-your-creation function. >_>

“ToneMatrix”:http://lab.andre-michelle.com/tonematrix.

… What happened to my tag cloud? I know I haven’t written that much stuff regarding Cronenberg… ::cough::

… I drove two heavy boxes of sky blue t-shirts with USC game logos on it up to San Francisco for GDC!

… and then I drove them back! (or will be. ::cough::)