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Game talk
This is the catch-all category for stuff about games and game design. It easily makes up the vast majority of the site’s content. If you are looking for something specific, I highly recommend looking into the tags used on the site instead. They can narrow down the hunt immensely.
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www.sicher.org: The Game Content Dodge
Over at www.sicher.org there’s a post discussing the “next next gen” issue that ends with a challenge and an interesting speculation.
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Second Life on the cover of Business Week
I guess our hobby is mainstream now. My Virtual Life article, discussion at TerraNova. The article also features an assortment of extra goodies, such as a slideshow of the evolution of online worlds.
Image of the cover:
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The next next gen
So here we are, in the next gen land of 75+ person teams and $30 million dollar budgets. What do I see when I look out across the future landscape?
I see an inflection point.
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Game Rules as Art
It was sitting with Rod Humble in an office chatting about how to make crafting in EQII cooler that I first outlined the notion of a game grammar.
Now Rod has an Escapist article about how game rules are at the core of the game art form. It’s worth reading.