The new (and improved) game designer

When looking at popular social games and iPhone applications these days, it strikes me that game design (in these games) is now as much about business models as it is about fun interactivity. Inspired by a presentation from Jesse Schell at DICE 2010, it occurred to me that with the advent of Free 2 Play [...]

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Marshal McLuhan and tribalization

Marshall McLuhan talks about the start of socialisation in media and how the move to electronic media allowed the ‘tribe’ or in other words community to reenter society. Some of his thoughts ramble and are a little wacky but not bad considering he had these thoughts in 1960! Some very interesting remarks on the end [...]

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Games are not media – according to Frank Lantz anyway…

I attended an intersting session at the GDC a few weeks back where Frank Lantz proceded to claim that Computer games are not a form of Media. A neat summary can be found from Edge online below. But I think he is really looking at media from a quite traditional view, one that does not [...]

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Illusion Labs brings multi-touch gaming to the big screen

Can’t wait for boardgames to come in this format…..

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