Game design book stuff
I just got my contributor’s copy of The Game Design Reader : A Rules of Play Anthology, by Eric Zimmerman and Katie Salen; I also just got Game Development Essentials : An Introduction.
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I got my Japanese copies of A Theory of Fun
And they are very nicely done indeed. Different, to be sure: as you saw before, the cover is red (going for a color per country, I think) but that’s actually the slipcover. Turns out you can remove that and get the cover proper, which is stark white.They also split some of the cartoons across pages, which is sort of odd, but in most cases it works without losing anything into the binding.
As with the other translated editions, there’s text here and there that I have no idea what it is. In this case, aside from Masaya Matsuura’s foreword (which he has told me he’ll supply an English version of sometime soon), there’s also text at each new chapter, under the chapter title. I don’t know whether they put extra commentary there, whether it’s maybe something Masaya wrote, or whether it’s just the first paragraph from the actual chapter, or what…
Masaya’s foreword has photos in it of us together, which is very cool. My favorite bit, though, is that the angel penguin is on the spine. 🙂
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Briefly noted: Planarity
Planarity is a very cool game. Your objective: to untangle the network so that no lines cross (e.g., create a planar graph).
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Anda’s Game
I have tacked up on my wall in my office an autographed copy of “Anda’s Game,” the story by Cory Doctorow that was originally serialized on Salon.
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Monthly Report, December 2005
Time for another monthly report, my way of letting you know how the site is going!
We’re up on visits since last month, with around 1700 visitors a day or so. There were 12000 unique visitors, same as last month. A lot more visits, perhaps reflecting the increase in comment activity. Up by over 25%. The biggest day was actually December 1st, so maybe the blog is getting more boring?
Only 97 people listened to the mp3s I put up. *sigh*
And they are very nicely done indeed. Different, to be sure: as you saw before, the cover is red (going for a color per country, I think) but that’s actually the slipcover. Turns out you can remove that and get the cover proper, which is stark white.