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Tools don’t stifle art! 14 Aug 2013 | 12:22 am
Luke McMillan has a nice article on Gamasutra entitled “An Intro to RLD,” which is about using math to assess the difficulty of jumping puzzles (and by extension, other parts of the content ramp in yo...
Ways To Be Right 7 Aug 2013 | 01:28 am
In response to http://ellaguro.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/the-talk-of-magicians.html: You can choose an art style that is broadly accessible, or not. You can have training in your new mechanics, or not....
Dishonest opponents 8 Jul 2013 | 11:16 pm
Another question from Quora. At issue was whether a game can be successful if it relies on players being honest about what they think. The example given was “what number am I thinking of?” If the play...
Social games vs gambling 3 Jul 2013 | 09:42 pm
A lot of people are still looking down their noses at social games, particularly now that Facebook is no longer the hot new games platform. This ignores the fact that there are millions of people happ...
Programming languages for aspiring designers 2 Jul 2013 | 01:07 am
I answered a whole lot of questions on Quora in the last few days, and thought I would share some of them here on the blog over the next little while, since I have been pretty quiet. The question on ...
New Theory of Fun cover 20 Jun 2013 | 10:26 pm
Here’s the cover for the revised edition of Theory of Fun! Yeah, a lot like the old one We are still shooting for October. We’re in the edit process now, and there are very few changes thus far!
Books about gamer culture 6 Jun 2013 | 09:49 pm
In the wake of Indie Game: The Movie , I was asked on Quora about other works that are descriptive of gamer culture, suitable for someone who doesn’t play games, isn’t trying to learn how to make them...
Theory of Fun status 30 May 2013 | 06:11 am
I have finished revising all of the text in the book, and sent off the manuscript to O’Reilly, a few days ahead of deadline. How much has changed? Well, I would guess that half the pages in the book ...
The Sunday Poem: Descending to the Airport at Night 19 May 2013 | 06:14 am
It has been a very long time since I posted a Sunday Poem. I am about to get on another airplane in the morning, so I am posting it a day early. This one’s bones came to me on a return flight from up...
On personal games 9 May 2013 | 11:45 pm
I don’t have any tales of games saving me from depression. I mean, I did go through a period where I was depressed. I dropped out of high school while living overseas and basically just didn’t go any...
