Gaming: recipes for new narratives from Failbetter founder Alexis Kennedy
Last week I met with Alexis Kennedy, founder of Failbetter Games and editor of Echo Bazaar, a text game that has received lots of appraisal. Alexis is the first person I have met who can soundly...
View ArticleTo The Barricades!
In 1848, from Paris to Prague and Berlin to Budapest, Europe was on the brink of revolution. Behind the surprising strength of the uprisings was a novel technique of street protest that gave the people...
View ArticleWhat Data Visualization Can Learn from Game Design
When reading articles and books on data visualization, the focus is often on amplifying cognition by using external (visual) aids. In this blogpost I attempt to conduct a kind of meta-analysis on data...
View ArticleGames Now Legally Considered an Art Form (in the US)
The “games as art” debate will likely continue raging for years before videogames reach complete cultural acceptance, but at least one important organization now officially considers games art: The US...
View ArticleThe Case for Videogames as Powerful Tools for Learning
The famous videogame designer, Shigeru Miyamoto, known for creating some of the most iconic and successful videogames in history, such as Donkey Kong, Mario Brothers and Legend of Zelda, once said,...
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