Mall Rats, Vidiots and Addicts: Anti Video Game Propaganda From The 80s – Retro Bitch https://retrobitch.wordpress.com/2019/01/16/mall-rats-vidiots-and-addicts-anti-video-game-propaganda-from-the-80s/

Designing the game console of the future (in 1997) - Polygon https://www.polygon.com/features/2019/1/28/18146043/the-game-console-of-the-future-1997-nintendo-power

In case anybody wants to implement their own homebrew NeoGeo games: http://www.hardmvs.fr/manuals/NeoGeoProgrammersGuide.pdf

Nearly half of game developers want to unionize https://www.engadget.com/2019/01/24/nearly-half-of-game-developers-want-to-unionize/

Yahoo! Games Failure: How To Checkmate Yourself https://tedium.co/2017/07/27/yahoo-games-failure-classicgames/

A thing I’ve learned: if you’re submitting a game to steam & you’re not sure if it should count as ‘mature content’, err on the side of ‘no’, because if you describe the content & they don’t think it’s mature enough they’ll assume there’s unmentioned/hidden nudity & won’t let you release it

I’m currently streaming the last push on developing Manna for our Malices, the game I’ve been working on for 1.5 years: https://www.twitch.tv/enkiv2

Band name of the day: the wonderful game of vomit

I guess it was only a matter of time until Netflix got into the red-hot FMV Game market.

How BioWare’s ‘Baldur’s Gate’ Saved the Computer RPG - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/2018/12/21/18150363/baldurs-gate-bioware-1998-video-games

Video games are political. Here’s how they can be progressive | Games | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/games/2018/aug/13/video-games-are-political-heres-how-they-can-be-progressive

It’s Time For Games To Own Their Politics https://kotaku.com/it-s-time-for-games-to-own-their-politics-1827320727

Cragne Manor, an 84-room horror “exquisite corpse” text adventure that’s a tribute to the classic game Anchorhead / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2018/12/09/massively-multi-developer.html

GitHub - CardsAgainstCryptography/CAC: A party game for nerdy cryptographers. Shamelessly based on Cards Against Humanity. https://github.com/CardsAgainstCryptography/CAC

Video Games In East Germany: The Stasi Played Along | ZEIT ONLINE https://www.zeit.de/digital/games/2018-11/computer-games-gdr-stasi-surveillance-gamer-crowd

The Credit Card Daredevils Who Risk It All for the Points Game - MEL Magazine https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-credit-daredevils-who-risk-it-all-for-the-points-game

Too Many Requests https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2lvjgt/in_games_and_books_there_are_always_adventurers/

Simulating a Xerox Alto with the ContrAlto simulator: games and Smalltalk http://www.righto.com/2016/10/simulating-xerox-alto-with-contralto.html

Specification gaming examples in AI - master list https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vRPiprOaC3HsCf5Tuum8bRfzYUiKLRqJmbOoC-32JorNdfyTiRRsR7Ea5eWtvsWzuxo8bjOxCG84dAg/pubhtml

Police Training Simulator History: A Parallel Path With Gaming https://tedium.co/2018/10/23/police-training-simulator-history/

INTERFACE LOVE. – Researching UI in Games, Cinema and anything else thats interesting. https://ilikeinterfaces.com/

twitch plays the glass bead game

Rockstar developers speak out about “100-hour weeks” comment | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/10/red-dead-redemption-2-devs-say-quoted-100-hour-weeks-arent-the-norm/

Bad idea of the day: A video game adaptation of Lethem’s Gun With Occasional Music in the style of the Monkey Island series, with a mechanic involving mixing custom blends of forgetol/regretol/etc & replacing people’s stashes with them.

Preliminary Poetics of Procedural Generation in Games by @ikarth http://www.digra.org/wp-content/uploads/digital-library/DIGRA_2018_paper_166.pdf

The Internet’s keepers? “Some call us hoarders”I like to say we’re archivists” | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/10/the-internets-keepers-some-call-us-hoarders-i-like-to-say-were-archivists/

Hot take: only buy video games made by personal friends.

Underrun – Making Of
I participated in this year’s js13kGames, a JavaScript game development competition with a file size limit of 13kb, including code, assets and everything else. My entry was Underrun, a twin stick shooter using WebGL.

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VCR Board Games: Only One Way This Will End https://tedium.co/2018/09/13/vcr-board-games-history/

Sergei Skripal and the Russian disinformation game - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45454142

Well that was disappointing. Was all set to run my Savage World game on Roll20 and 3 of the 5 players had to cancel.

Valve: ‘It Really Does Seem Bad Games Are Made by Bad People’ - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9kmej7/valve-it-really-does-seem-bad-games-are-made-by-bad-people

The Ripper: The disturbing Visceral Games project that EA canceled - Polygon https://www.polygon.com/2018/8/24/17770668/jack-the-ripper-visceral-games-electronic-arts-canceled

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 )

a party game where people take turns making wishes and being the djinns

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.

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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