GameOntology The Game Ontology Project (GOP) is a framework for describing, analyzing and studying games. It is a hierarchy of concepts abstracted from an [...]

Erwin Olaf Pictures from the edge of the hyperreal. [...]

Gamestudies – Issue 0701, 2007 Seems a bit outdated (last issue from August 2007), but contains important articles. [...]

World of Warcraft: The Molten Core Hehehe. (tags: fun [...]

Even though today’s lecture about the emergence of culture through play was a more or less artistic mess, it provided me with a modern-day text about game definitions by Jesper Juul. What’s even more: it gives me a great reason to rant about it.

It already starts with the introduction. Juul actually proposes a new, or [...]

Thank the gods for the meta level. If you can’t say anything clever, just talk about not knowing what to say.

Anyway. So a new phase in my life started yesterday, with me taking up my studies in Game Design at the ZHdK. It promises to be quite an interesting time, with interesting people all around. [...]

Rez HD Totally worth playing, according to our teacher. [...]

We Didn’t Playtest This at All is so dumb that it goes around the corner and becomes kind of interesting. It’s kind of like Fluxx, only with less strategy and coherence (and if you know anything about that game, you know it’s already so devoid of strategy as to lack anything like coherence).

Play This Thing! [...]

There will be a new album from Jóhann Jóhannsson! Check this out:

After IBM 1401, A User’s Manual, Fordlândia is the second instalment in a proposed trilogy based on technology and iconic American brand names. Whereas IBM 1401, A User’s Manual was a personal response to technology and its inevitable obsolescence (inspired by his father’s work [...]

Das ist noch ein Titel:

Die Beeinflussung der ökonomisch interessanten Milchleistungsparameter von Kühen in der Hochlaktation durch ein oral verabreichtes Antibiotikum und die kontinuierliche Applikation eines “geschützten” Methioninsupplements

Yeah Baby! Und erscheint natürlich bei der Suche nach Texten zu Geschichtenerzählern (Suchbegriff: «Oral Performance»).

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tips:mail2page [DokuWiki] A way to get ideas into my wiki from my iPhone [...]

The Forge Forum about Indie-RPGs – with a large section about role playing theory. [...]

The Puppini Sisters Oh … this is so lovely retroid. [...]

Interessanterweise landen wir schon wieder bei Turing, wenn auch aus anderem Grunde.

In einem Sammelband von Aufsätzen zum Thema Spiel und Wissenschaft1 bin ich über folgende Stelle gestossen. Der Wissenschaftler (Bernhard Dotzler) war im Rahmen eines Symposiums aufgefordert worden, auf Fragen eines Fragebogens zu antworten.

Wer ist dein Lieblingswissenschaftler? «Turing.» Kannst du uns drei [...]