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11 Microlog entries tagged with ‘videogames’
The 50 Greatest Video Game Characters of All Time
My personal favourite will always be ‘Skeleton - Mrs Benoit’ in Deadliest of the WWE. I daren’t play it with the lights off. Sports & Games ·
The Game Design of Everyday Things: Everyday Gaming
Interesting thoughts from Tom Armitage. But to add my own: there’s a fine line between “designing games to fit into the fabric of everyday lives”, and having those games become a chore, making me feel guilty for not playing (I’m looking at you, Animal Crossing). Sports & Games ·
Super Play Archive
Only the first six issues; hopefully the rest will be added soon. This was a bloody great magazine, even for someone like me who wasn’t/isn’t a gamer per se. Sports & Games ·
Arm Joe
A 2D fighting game based on Les Misérables. I’m not kidding. Sports & Games ·
This Gaming Life free to read online
Jim Rossignol’s book on gaming culture available in full online. Shame it’s not downloadable as an e-book. Sports & Games ·
What I Mean When I Talk About Games Literacy
Understanding games as stories and systems, the latter with limitations that must be respected by the former. Or something like that. Lots to think about. See also: Emmet’s frustrations with conventions in game design. Sports & Games ·
Roger Ebert re-enters the ‘games as art’ debate
This isn’t even really a debate: anything can be art in the right context or circumstances. Ebert should know better. Arts & Culture ·
Everything I Learned About Game Design I Learned From Disneyland
People can scoff about theme parks all they want, but there’s nothing like the attention to detail that imagineers bestow upon every element of the Disney experience. That’s the key to the whole shebang. Sports & Games ·
The 50 most intriguing games of 2010
New games for the Wii are conspicuous by their absence. Nintendo, what are you doing? Sound & Screen ·
Charlie Brooker: Why I love video games
The man really does love his videogames. But sadly not the Wii, which has its place for casual-but-interested gamers such as myself. Sound & Screen ·
‘These videogames are not art. They are extreme pornography’
O RLY? Actually this might be one of the few instances where the comments section is better than the article itself — which needless to say is hideously ill-informed. Arts & Culture ·
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