Looks like Understanding Games: Episode 3 is up at Kongregate now. This one is about how players build mental models: hypothesizing, experimenting, and getting feedback from the game as to whether they are playing correctly.
I mentioned in my discussion of Jon Blow’s Nuances of Design session that to my mind, Rod Humble’s The Marriage was clearly a game that was intended, and succeeded, at being art. Well, now you can download it here, and come to your own conclusions.
Yesterday I blogged about this study that has been reported in the press as “racing games can make you drive recklessly in real life.” While that does seem to be a bit of a sensationalistic headline for the actual study, and while the study also seems to have some obvious limitations, I am nonetheless a bit surprised at the reaction among the gaming population.
Basically, I think that sometimes in our zeal to defend our favorite medium, we unwittingly rob it of its power.
Spent the last few days sick, so here’s just some pointers to articles that struck me as interesting:
No words this week — just music. This is called “This Don’t Groove.” It got that name because when I was first messing around with the riff, I was told that it was kinda square. 🙂 I think this dates to… oh, maybe 1998 or ’99?
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