Game Developer Magazine has announced the nominees for the annual Front Line Awards, and A Theory of Fun for Game Design is among the book nominees. This is a very nice honor, particularly given the highly practical and useful books that are the other nominations.
I leave Locus Online to read the obit of an SF writer I had never heard of, and see Chris Whitley’s name at the bottom of the list of obituaries.
He was only 45, and he died of lung cancer, and somehow, it’s exactly the right bluesy ending to another great bluesman, albeit one that most people don’t remember, or only know because of “Big Sky Country” playing in the background of a Chevy commercial.
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“So you have these four basic types that occupy the environment: the Achiever, the Explorer, the Socializer and the Killer.”
Nick Fortugno, the 30-year-old teacher, turned away from the whiteboard and faced the 14 undergraduate and master’s-level students in his Thursday seminar. “Killers act like predators, and like any ecosystem, if you increase the number of killers and facilitate them, you decrease the number of achievers and socializers.”
I’m sure that right about now, RIchard chimes in wondering why nobody uses his newer model, found in his book…
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The Rituals of Alea and A Game Design Grammar. Just noting them, really. I think chance and randomness are incredibly important in games, but that they only do more than teach probability when they exist within a larger context; and that there’s alot of folks out there using the grammar metaphor right now and we need to pin down what we mean a bit better. 🙂
