revisiting

physical gaming environments get more interesting

video game essay recommended by shirky - should read

Nokia Games Summit - nokia to focus on location based games

aha! some inventiveness in the games world. a "hotter" / "colder" type game for mobile maps would be a neat extension of this...

toby does a sterling job of pulling together a good cast and an event that feels timely and right

good piece by tom armitage. like the idea that games are full of social objects - experiences and incidents in games that we create meanings from - and that these should be exportable to the wider net, or wherever we want to put it.

Top 25 social games on Facebook. For reference.

"Every time I sit down with a finely crafted title such as Tetris or Super Mario Brothers, I catch hints of a concise and clearly defined structure behind the gameplay. It is my belief that a highly mechanical and predictable heart, built on the foundatio

shannon on social gaming...

she argues: ambiguous game content stimulates massively collaborative game play that allows for a greater share of leadership and meaningful participation in large-scale player groups. i'm doubtful.

can it?

4 concepts for game design. all seems a tad dry.

Great example of a performance space in gaming. Players show off their Quake skills by completing the game as quickly as possible and publishing their movie files on the site

Community website for rockstar games (incl GTA). Introduces 'social' metrics for gamplay: leader boards, stats and even mp3 sharing.

Conflict is often seen as the essence of gaming. However, this article puts the emphasis on co-operation and explains how player co-operation is a vital part of MMOGs.

quick review of byron's review which needs to be read. I'm hoping that they'll be some clear headed evidence about video gaming; some balance is needed to the knee jerk liberal response on the subject.

it doesn't surprise me that people have these views that Brenda uncovers. there's a knee jerk reaction to kids and screen based media = negative that cuts to the heart of our relationship with technology.

sheesh > ARGs just demand so much from you [a good filter maybe but always a bit too high?]. They need to devise different levels of involvement.

game to categorise things which i've only just stumbled upon...

"Geeks like algorithms. We like sets of rules that guide future behavior. But people, normal people, consistently act outside rule sets. People are messy and unpredictable, until you have something like the Dungeons & Dragons character sheet. Once you’v

which only play in myspace profiles but you can embed 'em. be nice if you could also display dynamic scores amongst friends and wider net. that'd be cool. it potentially opens up simple game genres to more complex narratives too...