Doc/Undoc
Over the weekend I attended a fantastic reading by Felicia Rice for an exhibition at the Galería de la Raza. Her latest piece is a...
Lack of Imagination
Mike Cook, the researcher behind the Angelina game-generating AI system, recently spoke at VideoBrains about gamers’ lack of imagination. Gamers, he argues, do not...
Parable of the Polygons
Parable of the Polygons is an interactive blog post by Vi Hart and Nicky Case about bias and self-segregation that effectively shows how even a...
How to Argue Responsibly
After months now of particularly draining online discussions conducted in bad faith I find myself lately ready to give up on the Internet. Though...
Sandbox Games
A pretty girl.
Teacher’s pet.
But she’s mean.
She took your toy.
You want to hurt her.
Get her back.
Burn her.
She’s mean
But teacher loves her.
She’s smiling. Giggling.
Playing with your...
Fog of War
Partly due to travel over the past month and partly for personal reasons, I’ve avoided writing about Gamergate before now. Well, that’s not quite...
Nobody Was Mean or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the FPS
First exposure:
“I’m standing at the entrance, by the Titanfall booth,” I text to a friend, who is coming to meet me at the entrance...
Spoil-sports & Boys’ Games
From Huizinga's Homo Ludens (1938):
The player who trespasses against the rules or ignores them is a "spoil-sport". The spoil-sport is not the same as...