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TGI Play: Day 3
Submitted by JoshFishburn on Wed, 06/25/2008 - 22:00.Agenda
- Playtest
- 3rd Game with Formal Constraint
- Intro to Conceptual Constraints (communicative games; games about stuff)
Ground Rules for Playtesting
TGI Play: Day 2
Submitted by JoshFishburn on Wed, 06/25/2008 - 20:18.Today we started with a short discussion of playtesting. Here are some quick points:
Creator of Mario on "design" and "idea"
Submitted by Rafael Fajardo on Mon, 11/05/2007 - 22:43.This was contributed to my by Devin Monnens. It's a link to an interview with the head of Nintendo, Iwata-san, where he discusses Miyamoto-san's definitions of "idea" and goals for "design". I'll include a snippet, but it's worth chasing the link. Shigeru Miyamoto created Donkey Kong, all of the Super Mario Titles, and all of the Legend of Zelda titles for Nintendo. Miyamoto-san has made some of the most important and the most fun videogames in history. When he speaks, game designers listen:
Values in games:
Submitted by Rafael Fajardo on Wed, 09/26/2007 - 21:44.Mary Flanagan
A method for discovering Issues around Values in Digital Games
[first report of another NSF funded project]
Edward Castronova keynote at DiGRA
Submitted by Rafael Fajardo on Wed, 09/26/2007 - 21:32.Liveblogging DiGRA keynote by Edward Castronova (EC)
sense mutual contempt between some members and keynote speaker from overheard snippets of conversations.
Liveblogging from Digital Games Research Association 2007, Tokyo
Submitted by Rafael Fajardo on Tue, 09/25/2007 - 05:59.Overall exhaustion has me moving more slowly than I'd like. I'm at the Digtial Games Research Association international conference in Tokyo, Japan. I'll be on a panel organized by Games for Change, where I'll be presenting some introductory information about P4 to an international audience of game researchers and creators. I'm attending sessions that will be of interest to our teaching partners in Denver, as well as to game development students in general. I'll try to transcribe notes that I've written on paper, and will then try to write new notes directly to the blog.
Gonzalo Frasca successfully defends his doctoral dissertation
Submitted by Rafael Fajardo on Fri, 08/31/2007 - 14:25.http://www.flickr.com/photos/supervaffel/sets/72157601703433031/
The link above takes you to a set of photos from the successful defense of Gonzalo Frasca's doctoral dissertation. Doctor Frasca is the creator of September 12th, found on his website http://www.newsgaming.com/ and is one of the earliest proponents for the use of videogames as a medium for expression and political speech. His masters thesis, Videogames of the Oppressed, is available on his website: http://www.ludology.org/articles/thesis/
Model Games For Health
Submitted by Rafael Fajardo on Thu, 06/28/2007 - 03:19.Game Title: Fatworld
Publisher: Persuasive Games, Ian Bogost
URL: http://www.persuasivegames.com/games/game.aspx?game=fatworld
Further reading: http://www.wired.com/gaming/gamingreviews/magazine/15-07/pl_games
