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Understanding Games: Episode 2

March 14th, 2007 (Visited 3989 times) Tags:

One of the things that some folks said about A Theory of Fun is that they wished it were in game form — that way it would be like Understanding Comics. Well, here comes Understanding Games: Episode 1 and Episode 2, hosted over at Kongregate. Badass.

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Memento Diem - » Understanding Games 1 & 2 wrote on March 15th, 2007 at 1:40 am:

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Se7en Samurai wrote on March 16th, 2007 at 7:58 pm:

[...] enough. I always figured A Theory of Fun would be way too dry for me, so this should be right up my alley.Episode #1 *download swfEpisode #2 *download [...]

Don't say CRUD say FUC'D. wrote on March 18th, 2007 at 8:11 pm:

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Gameology | News, Commentary and Resources for the Game Studies Community wrote on March 26th, 2007 at 11:40 pm:

Theory of Fun for Game Design is also a clear predecessor in its approach if not its specific ideas. “Understanding Games” has been making the rounds on digg and even BoingBoing, so what’s the big deal? Raph calls it “badass”, but I’m not so sure. I don’t claim to be a comics scholar myself, but my friends who are sometimes complain about McCloud’s “scholarship.” On the one hand, they say, it’s great that serious thinking about comics is reaching a

Understanding Games « All in the Game wrote on March 27th, 2007 at 9:05 am:

[...] by anttiki on March 27th, 2007 Through Raph Koster: German Pixelate have developed a series of flash games (or animations with game cut-scenes ) [...]

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Ian Bogost said on March 14th, 2007 at 6:23 pm:
Just think how much more badass it would be if it actually did something when the “press space to skip text” on Safari. Off to Firefox. I thought Flash was supposed to be all cross-platform/browser and stuff.
Raph said on March 14th, 2007 at 6:36 pm:

Does it have focus? And are you running Flash 9 like it asked? I didn’t have any issues…
Ian Bogost said on March 14th, 2007 at 7:54 pm:
I got it running in Firefox. Safari just sucks. I don’t know why I use it.

It’s a cool little “game” thing, although a bit tedious at times. Then again, I’m not one to point fingers in that regard.
Jim Greer said on March 15th, 2007 at 7:25 am:
Thanks Raph! Pixelate mentioned to me in chat that “A Theory of Fun” was an influence.

By the way, UG2 is doing pretty decently on Digg:

http://digg.com/playable_web_games/Understanding_Games_Episode_2_Playable_Flash_Game_Design_Tutorial
chocorisu said on March 15th, 2007 at 8:24 am:
Charming! It’s a bit linear though… :o9
Morgan Ramsay said on March 15th, 2007 at 2:02 pm:
So when are you going to publish Andean Bird on Kongregate?