Entries tagged with 'games'
Let's talk about "retro"
Check this out... Trailer for Mega Man 9. If you're like me and you're not a Mega Man fan, let me clue you in on why I'm bothering to link this old school 8-bit game. There was never a Mega... (permalink)
Designing my own ARG (post-mortem)
So this summer I am teaching at the Academic Talent Development Program (ATDP), hosted by UC Berkeley, as usual. And as usual, the class meets MWF, with one Friday falling on July 4th. The program's policy is to cancel the... (permalink)
Game Designer Wishes
Um, I haven't actually read it yet (wanted to plug it first), but it's probably enlightening! Article at 1up.com... Three Wishes: Game Genie Grants Developers Their Hearts' Desires. "Dear developer," our offer went, "if you could, at the wave of... (permalink)
Games and Plagiarism
An article about plagiarism in video games -- if it can be called that -- by one Chris Bateman... I'd never heard of him before, but I don't remember names very well. Plagiarism in Videogames? I actually don't think it's... (permalink)
You Have To Burn The Rope
I have no idea how to describe this. "satire" is the only word that comes to mind, but for the life of me, I can't figure out what exactly it might be a satire of. I am moved to share... (permalink)
Music Visualization Games
Ever since Al linked these MIDI visualizations a long while ago, I've been thinking about games who take music tracks and build playable levels around them. (The MIDI visualizer had me seeing side-scrolling platformers, though I couldn't quite wrap my... (permalink)
Shift
Couple weeks ago during seminar, Scott brought up the topic of games with a core mechanic of using different perspectives to view the world, and how they seem to be popping out of the woodwork lately. I just bought "Crush"... (permalink)
"Bodies" Wiki Contribution
(505 wiki link) Our video games demo about race had me considering a lot of things about race in video games. It was difficult to come up with possible games to demo for the topic and Ian pointed out why,... (permalink)
"Narrative" Wiki Contribution
(505 wiki link) I thought the Henry Jenkins article, Game Design as Narrative Architecture was tremendously elucidating. He really hit the nail on the head on many points and I found myself agreeing with practically everything he said about the... (permalink)
Making Emotions Work for You
Just a couple quick comments on tonight's seminar, which I thought was pretty damn interesting. (by the numbers, clearly other people agree.) There was a lot of stuff said and while I did spend a couple very confused moments wondering... (permalink)
Narrative in Games
We had a fascinating 505 class session today, if I do say so myself. :P There was a nice overview of Net Neutrality, complete with Ted Stevens and "The Machine Is Us" videos... both of which I have shown while... (permalink)
