Nicklas, Ricky, Brandon, and others play a game on Standoff. Nicklas is already eliminated, Ricky shoots the sky, and Brandon shoots himself. (Photo by tigershungry). Time to teach another one of my favorite folk/playground games! Standoff is a simple … Continue reading
Thanks to my friend Mike, I’ve recently been doing a lot of thinking about the classic card game Bridge. As I learn more about the game, I’ve become increasingly intrigued. Speaking as a game designer and researcher, I find Bridge … Continue reading
Thanks to a recommendation from my friend Mike, I recently finished reading The Master of Go (1951) by Yasunari Kawabata, a famous Japanese author and Nobel laureate. The book, though semi-fictional (some of the names and details have been changed), … Continue reading
(Post-game discussion – in the dark, of course! Photos by Bryan Ma.) Over the past few months, I’ve been working on a new game for Move controllers. It’s a “horror-slapstick” installation game called Beacons of Hope. The game is … Continue reading
>FrameEditor used for placing frames and defining their content. BodyEditor used for placing Collision Objects Level, loaded in the app Slightly overworked. We’ve started heading towards level design. For designing and implementing levels we’re using two little home-made tools, along … Continue reading
> No More Sweden is over. It was cool to meet up again with everybody. Also I met many nice people. Some were even from overseas. (From Toronto and from Phoenix) Here’s a snapshot from an unfinished game, I made … Continue reading
> Here is a part of a concept I am currently working on. It’s a pdf. Let me know what you think of it.
>I wanted to write an email to Jonathan Blow. The email would have been phrased something like this:“Hi Jonathan, I wanted to thank you for inspiring me. I first saw your talk in 2008 in Germany and the talk was … Continue reading
> Ian Bogost, author of the book Persuasive Games has written an article, in which he mentions Where Is My Heart?. His article discusses a concept, which he calls Proceduralism. How I understand it, the term Procuduralism, as Ian defines … Continue reading
> When I design gameplay rules I often use comic strips to capture the essence of the rule. By ‘essence’ I mean, the important element of the rule. For example this comic strip shows the rule of metamorphosis. When the … Continue reading