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- A Teacher's Primer
Response to the Canadian Teacher's Federation calling for a ban of Rockstar's Bully. - Ludonarrative Dissonance in Bioshock
My criticism (not a review) of Irrational's game Bioshock. - On Authorship in Games
An examination of the nature of authorship in an interactive medium. - Convergence 'No longer a theory'
More on convergence as hollywood filmmakers start their own game studios. - Hollywood’s Bloody Ballet – What Game Design Can Learn From 300
On the myth of game/film convergence. - I Stand Corrected - partly
On the importance of game criticism (as opposed to reviews) and why we need it.
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DesignMaterials
- AGWC 2005 Mapping Chaos
- FNC 2007 The Game Designer's Toolbox
- FPLAY 2006 The Last 3d Revolution
- GDC 2004 The Interesting Thing About Bishops
- GDC 2005 Deconstructing Sam
- GDC 2005 Game Design Challenge: Emily Dickenson
- GDC 2006 Designing to Promote Intentional Play
- GDC 2007 Exploration - from Systems to Spaces to Self
- GDC 2008 Game Designer's rant
- GDC 2008 i-fi: Immersive Fidelity in Games
- GDC 2009 Five Stars and the Truth
- GDC 2009 GDW Exercise: Family Dynamics
- GDC 2009 Improvisation
- GDExpo 2009 Generations
- IGDA 2004 Ethical Decision Making in Games
- KGC 2005 Topology of Chaos
- MiGS 2004 Level Design
- MiGS 2005 Next! The Game Designers Generation
Interesting Places
- Applied Game Design - Brenda Brathwaite
- Brainy Gamer - Michael Abbott
- Christian Allen
- Design Cave - Jonathan Morin
- Design Rampage - Manveer Heir
- Designer Notes - Soren Johnson
- Fullbright - Steve Gaynor
- Game Girl Advance - Jane Pinckard
- Game Tycoon - David Edery
- GameSetWatch
- Grand Text Auto
- Insult Swordfighting - Mitch Krpata
- Intelligent Artifice - Jurie Horneman
- Kim Pallister
- Pentadact - Tom Francis
- Plush Apocalypse - Borut Pfeifer
- Reality Panic
- Robin Hunicke
- roBurky
- Rock Paper Shotgun
- Sexy Videogame Land - Leigh Alexander
- SLRC - Ben Abraham
- The Brainy Gamer - Michael Abbott
- The Escapist
- The Ludologist
- Too Much Imagination - Ben Mattes
- Versus CluClu Land - Iroquois Pliskin
- We Make Holes in Teeth - Pat Redding
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