February 5th 2008
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Game Design
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Ingenious (play online) is an abstract strategy board game designed by Reiner Knizia, in which players place conjoined hexagonal tiles on a board, scoring one point for each similarly colored hexagon which emanate from the five available faces of each half of the played tile. Each player keeps score on ...
Still not "it," but closer, maybe.
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I’m interested in games as a mediating device, both between the players themselves and between the players and their environment. My thesis will be a multiplayer pervasive game which draws parallels between the social systems of the real world and the formal systems encapsulated in ...
January 28th 2008
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Socialbomb,
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Since we've been throwing it around recently without proper coinage, I'm hereby defining the term social area network (SAN): a communications network which extends outwards from the body to the limits of possible social interaction (ie, the range within which interaction between people is practical). This may vary by culture, ...
January 18th 2008
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Whenever I have a looming creative deadline (and by creative deadline, I mean one of those "have a brilliant idea by 2:34pm on Wednesday" kind of deadlines), I've discovered a certain pattern I fall into. First I'll think about it casually, read through my existing lists of project ideas to ...
Jamie asked us to give him some feedback in the form of a Young Hae Chang / Heavy Industries text piece. Mine is over here.
Much more stuff from finals and the show coming soon!
The Sparrow is a fairly straightforward play about a high school girl returning to the town where she was born. But this odd girl is a reminder of a bleak past - ten years earlier, Emily was the only survivor of a horrible bus accident which killed all the children ...
Breathing City is a multimedia installation, depicting an unnamed public square in an urban setting on four monitors, each one running through the same camera-controlled movements at different times of day. The video loops are offset a few seconds, and there was also a fifth monitor which showed several other ...
November 26th 2007
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Here's my initial proposal. I've got a couple more brewing, but this is the front-runner, and encompasses most of what I've been thinking about.
Super Hero Game
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I'm interested in games as a mediating device, both between the players themselves and between the players and their environment. My thesis will be a ...
November 18th 2007
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Big Games
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Spoiler Alert! This post contains some narrative spoilers for Portal. Play it and come back. I'll wait.
Spoiler Alert v.2! This post contains some spoilers for the 2-player ARG I'm working on. If you're playing, or think you might play, don't read it!
Since I don't think I've properly explained this, I ...
Because of Booty Dialer work, I haven't had time to really flesh out the Echo and Narcissus project I had in mind, but I did begin playing with Lumenvox, the voice-recognition engine that we've got installed on the ITP Asterisk server. It's a pretty robust system, as long as you ...