Stone Librande, the Lead Designer on Spore, will be talking about game design on April 16th at Gamepipe. Having had the privilege of working with him, I'd highly recommend his lectures.
Information can be found here: http://gamepipe.usc.edu/USC_GamePipe_Laboratory/Seminars/Entries/2009/4/16_Designing_Playfully.html
His personal website is here: http://www.stonetronix.com/ and has some awesome discussions on game design
Via Kotaku
With IGF done and gone submitted, but still in progress, here's a little teaser of what I have been working on...
Special thanks is due to Kylan Coats, who has contributed some fantastic artwork.
I'm speaking at a symposium on careers in the games industry, in the E for All Education Zone tomorrow. The panel takes place from 9 to 11 am, and is focused on providing information and insight for young people interested in working in the games industry.
My powerpoint can be found here: Download file
but i love making animated gifs...
I was bored, and whipped this up...
This may be spam, but i find the forms of play that animals engage in fascinating.
I was born in the hospital in Princeton. From my youngest age, I can remember the town, from the YMCA where i learned to swim, to the Nature Company where i used to marvel endlessly at the fossils they had for sale. But the thing i remember most is the university. I remember the lacrosse games, the places my parents worked, and the wonder i felt when i saw that the university museum and art gallery were always crowd-less. I remember when they (the shapeless they) rebuilt one of the classrooms to use in some horrid Einstein-related romance movie. The point of this rather rambling line of memories is this: no matter how badly i butcher the science, it can't be any worse than what they did to Einstein in IQ.
i've been doing research for my thesis recently, and have been wrestling with the concept of time. In my efforts to maintain scientific validity, i've investigated a number of different fields, with the hopes that i could form a better mental model of a concept that has befuddled the greatest minds for centuries. In the end, the most sage advice i received was "Just Michael Crichton it..."
In preparation for the upcoming thesis presentation, i figured i'd post some of my own musings on my work thus far, and the direction that i intend to take the project in...
These answers only represent the current state of my work, and are subject to change on a whim...