I suffer from an odd disorder called This Could Be a Game Syndrome. Perhaps you can relate. I navigate through my daily routines – parenting, work, play, eating, sleeping – just like ‘normal’ people, but several times a day TCBAGS (pronounced ‘Tee-See-Bags’) strikes, and my consciousness is overtaken by an uncontrollable compulsion to translate whatever [...]
In a study done on player interactions within World of Warcraft, a graphics-based online multiplayer game, the results found that “solable” classes, in other words classes that required the least social interactions, were the most popular classes of characters chosen, and the overall research concluded that players within the World of [...]
Everything we do in terms of “content” threatens the underlying core of “game” – if done correctly, everything blends seamlessly. If not, then the best art/interface/VO/story in the world cannot salvage a damaged core.
American McGee is becoming more and more my personal hero. He seems to be one of those very few game designers out [...]
Some results of a recent course at the ZHdK. Not by me, but it’s worth noting – and playing, most of all.
Oh. And by the way? The lecture got just hijacked by Commando Fun.
A discussion with my boyfriend made me realise something about different ways of play – or, more exactly – how and why I play games.
I for myself don’t like competition much. Seeing yourself displayed on a single additional sheet as the very last person of the ladder of a athletics competition is not exactly helping [...]
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