Bad idea of the day: A video game called ‘infodump’ where the primary mechanic is literally using a wiki/world bible to research lore.
Hot take: cybernetics is an extremely powerful model if you understand the feedback mechanisms in place & game theory is an extremely powerful model if you understand the incentives, but you don’t, so be careful & check your work
Game Studio With No Bosses Pays Everyone The Same https://kotaku.com/game-studio-with-no-bosses-pays-everyone-the-same-1827872972
How People Used to Download Games From the Radio | Kotaku UK http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2014/10/13/people-used-download-games-radio
reality is a shitty game because you can’t win. reality is a shitty movie because everything happens for no reason. reality is a shitty book because when it does happen it’s repetitive and uninteresting.
Designing apps for the E Ink Kindle https://kevinlynagh.com/kindle-games/
Finance has its own term for ‘skin in the game’: ‘insider trading’. It’s also a legal term, because people very occasionally go to jail for being too obvious when they do it.
70 Long-Lost Japanese Video Games Have Been Discovered in a 67GB Folder of ROMs on a Private Forum - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3anja/labyrinthe-japanese-game-discovered-on-private-forum
https://medium.com/@thegrugq/meme-game-on-fleek-yeah-nah-4ce777ba059a (related to https://medium.com/p/how-to-fail-at-culture-jamming-7b409abf5db5 )
Audacious Fox: The UX of Hidden Game Mechanics https://audaciousfox.net/linked/2018/hidden-game-mechanics
The CIA made a Magic: The Gathering-style card game for training agents, and we played it - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/21/17374054/cia-collect-it-all-declassified-training-tabletop-card-game
Nintendo Music Scene: Chiptune and Game-Rock Heavyweights https://tedium.co/2018/05/17/nintendo-nes-chiptune-music-scene/
all my favorite movies are beautiful clusterfucks because a dysfunctional game of telephone with people who don’t share a common language is the most reliable way to generate creativity
Impact Is Now Free & Open Source
My HTML5 Game Engine Impact launched almost 8 years ago. The last update was published in 2014. While Impact still works nicely in modern browsers, it lacks support for better graphic and sound APIs that are now available. I felt increasingly bad for selling a product that is hardly maintained or improved.
So as of today Impact will be available completely for free, published under the permissive MIT License.
Impact’s source is available on [gith … ⌘ Read more
Bad idea of the day: creepypasta in the form of a walkthrough for a nonexistent game from an alternate universe where a game like that described is normal
The rise of the ambient video game | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/4181/ambient-video-game-legend-of-zelda
These People Are Selling the CIA’s Internal Board Game to the Public - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vbxkd8/cia-board-game-techdirt-kickstarter
Wolfenstein vs Call of Duty - The Need for âBâ Games - Extra Credits - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42OkO9gQoQA
403 You are banned from this site. Please contact via a different client configuration if you believe that this is a mistake. http://freakonomics.com/2013/02/20/how-to-game-a-grading-curve/
Don’t submit yourself to a game machine! | Countercomplex http://viznut.fi/texts-en/dont_submit_yourself_to_game_machine.html
A Taxonomy of Tech Debt | Riot Games Engineering https://engineering.riotgames.com/news/taxonomy-tech-debt
Good Game Well Played: The Story of the Staying Power of âStarCraftâ - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/2018/3/30/17179036/1998-video-games-starcraft-turns-20
My Cow Game Extracted Your Facebook Data - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/03/my-cow-game-extracted-your-facebook-data/556214/
Game of missuggestions: semantic analysis of search autocomplete manipulation | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/03/14/game-of-missuggestions-semantic-analysis-of-search-autocomplete-manipulation/
Bad idea of the day: a game show with fantastic cash prizes, where contestants distinguish between real and fake headlines from the past week.
The Internet Archive put your favorite LCD handheld games online - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/19/17138752/internet-archive-handheld-history-collection-game-emulator-mame
Four AI composition tools … https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/03/robots-composed-the-soundtrack-for-my-home-movie-they-can-help-you-too/
Fake news ‘vaccine’: Online game may ‘inoculate’ by simulating propagand… https://phys.org/news/2018-02-fake-news-vaccine-online-game.html
The Story of ‘Hyperch… https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bjyav3/the-story-of-hyperchess-a-3d-chess-game-inspired-by-star-trek
Doki Doki Literature Club - A Metamodern Horror Game - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgTTDdzxqdo
The Problem With Card Game Anime - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ6YeGCM1wo
A video game that doesn’t click until you let go of t… https://www.polygon.com/2018/1/9/16851376/everything-best-games-2017-year-in-review
Conway‘s Game Of Life in APL - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9xAKttWgP4
It’s time for cyberpunk games to remember how to be punk … http://www.pcgamer.com/its-time-for-cyberpunk-games-to-remember-how-to-be-punk/
This Game Teaches You How to Build a Quantum Compu… https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3jkya/quantum-game-physics-computer-puzzle
AI Is Dreaming Up New Kinds of Video Games - MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609482/ai-is-dreaming-up-new-kinds-of-video-games/
Weird Kids‘ Videos and Gaming the Algorithm - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKp2gikIkD8
The Game Theory of Thanksgiving - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/nze49g/the-game-theory-of-thanksgiving
Standard Patterns in Choice-Based Games | These Heterogenous Tasks https://heterogenoustasks.wordpress.com/2015/01/26/standard-patterns-in-choice-based-games/
I spent seven months living inside a conspiracy thriller and it’s not over yet - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/27/16554660/lust-experience-alternate-reality-game-darren-lynn-bousman-immersive-theater
In praise of bad game design • Eurogamer.net http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-09-10-in-defence-of-rough-edges
The Story of NESticle, the Ambitious Emulator That Redefined Retro Gaming - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9a48z3/the-story-of-nesticle-the-ambitious-emulator-that-redefined-retro-gaming
POLYBIUS - The Video Game That Doesn‘t Exist - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7X6Yeydgyg&t=0s
How disreputable rehabs game Google to profit off patients - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/7/16257412/rehabs-near-me-google-search-scam-florida-treatment-centers
Wagner, Incest, and “Game of Thrones” | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/wagner-incest-and-game-of-thrones?curator=MusicREDEF
The Devo De-Evolution Of Golfer Chi Chi Rodriguez | Only A Game http://www.wbur.org/onlyagame/2017/08/25/golf-music-casale-mothersbaugh
MAME devs are cracking open arcade chips to get around DRM | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/07/mame-devs-are-cracking-open-arcade-chips-to-get-around-drm/
Inside the Gaming Library at Gitmo, America‘s Controversial Military Prison - Waypoint https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/a3d9jg/inside-the-gaming-library-at-gitmo-americas-most-controversial-military-prison?utm_medium=email&utm_source=digg
5 Gaming Tools to Help Your Writing | Tor/Forge Blog http://www.torforgeblog.com/2017/07/10/5-gaming-tools-to-help-your-writing/?utm_source=exacttarget&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_term=na-haspilarticle&utm_content=na-readblog-blogpost&utm_campaign=torjuly17newsletter&et=35866-n19595941