Raph's Website: Narrative is not a game mechanic

Aside from the main argument, the article shows a decent method for how to analyze what the player is asked to do and what the game gives back in return.

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Hollywood appears to have peaked. If it were an ordinary industry (film cameras, say, or typewriters), it could look forward to a couple decades of peaceful decline. But this is not an ordinary industry. The people who run it are so mean and so politically connected that they could do a lot of damage to civil liberties and the world economy on the way down. It would therefore be a good thing if competitors hastened their demise.
YCRFS 9: Kill Hollywood

Interactive Still Life by Scott Garner

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Most inventors and engineers I’ve met are like me … they live in their heads. They’re almost like artists. In fact, the very best of them are artists. And artists work best alone …. I’m going to give you some advice that might be hard to take. That advice is: Work alone… Not on a committee. Not on a team.
Woz (quoted in the article The Rise of the New Groupthink)

1969 Saul Bass’ Bell System Pitch

vimeobuzz:

PBS Off Book: The Evolution of Music Online

Featuring Blake Whitman

(this post was reblogged from vimeobuzz)

The Four Lenses of Game Making

Gamasutra's Best Of 2011: Top 5 Social Games

The Sims Social is on that list, and I did some work on it!

(Source: chiguire)

(this post was reblogged from chiguire)
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The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
Albert Einstein