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A blow-by-blow account of last weekend’s MolyJam in Brighton.
Tags: games
Slow down Katniss by 25% and what do you get? Will… - Final Boss Form
Andy Baio pointed to this from Twitter a few hours ago and ever since, I’ve been playing it and giggling over and over.
The Transformers at dConstruct 2011 – Hubbub
Kars has written up his (excellent) dConstruct talk. Set aside some time and read through this. It’s worth it.
Ian Bogost - Gamification is Bullshit
This is not as linkbaity as the title might suggest.
I’ve suggested the term “exploitationware” as a more accurate name for gamification’s true purpose…
Tom Armitage on Vimeo
Tom talks about “Things Rules Do.”
Tom Armitage on Vimeo
Things Rules Do is twenty minutes that looks at games of all forms, and the rules and systems that make their skeleton. It’s about the weird things that rules can do, beyond “tell you how to play”, such as inspire mastery, encourage deviance, and tell stories.
Amazon.co.uk: Amazon.co.uk Trade-In Store
Amazon will now pay you for your old video games. Good move.
8 BIT WOOD | serving all your wooden pixel needs
We need to make sure that Shaun Inman never discovers this site.
The Museum of Soviet Arcade Games
This description of a tour of the Museum of Soviet Arcade Games is like a travelogue from an alternative dimension.
A New Theory of Awesomeness and Miracles, by James Bridle, concerning Charles Babbage, Heath Robinson, MENACE and MAGE
This is how I knew James Bridle would be amazing at dConstruct. His talk from Playful '09 is, well... aweome!
LittleBigPlanet 2
A platform game? A platform for games!
Akihabara
A framework for creating old-school arcade games in the browser, using HTML5.
Audio Atrocities (TM)
"This site is intended to be a constantly growing and changing museum for the study and enjoyment of truly terrible video game voice acting in video games from the very first CD system, the Turbografx until the present day."
Ga-Fi at Binary Bonsai
The importance of storytelling in games.
Pulse Laser: Here & There influences
Jack Schulze goes into detail on the genesis of the wonderful Here & There map/visualisation.
globeandmail.com: Art of playing nice
Here's a great compromise solution for parents. Yes, your kids can play that violent video game but with one condition: they must abide by the Geneva Conventions.
JSSpeccy
Holy crap! A ZX Spectrum emulator built entirely in JavaScript. I cannot adequately describe the Proustian sensation I get from playing Manic Miner in a browser.
Ethan Hein | Player1Ready
Judging from the research information collected on Delicious, Flickr and Last.fm, this book proposal—tying together informatics, music and games—could blossom into a great read.
The Acorn Electron Haven - Usborne Publishing Section
Prompted by my post on adventure games, Relly sent me this link to a wonderfully archaic series of books from 1983.
The Escapist : The Myth of the Media Myth
A piercing article by Brenda Brathwaite examining people's attitudes towards gaming. Substitute "videogames" for "social networking sites" for equal slices of moral panic.
The New Yorker: Game Master
A profile of Will Wright. I'm really looking forward to hearing him speak at SXSW this year.