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#GameAWeek (Month) Challenge: sHMUP bLUFF
I’m reviewing Sploder for Graphite. It’s a web-based game-making tool meant for kids and classrooms. Everything is driven through the web interface and there’s no programming involved. There’s also...
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#GameAWeek Challenge: Button Quest
Back in June/July, before sHMUP bLUFF, I worked on Button Quest, a game using Flowlab with Sandra Danilovic. Part of the challenge was to learn the web-based game maker well enough to review for...
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#GameAWeek Challenge: Sploder Trifecta – sHMUP bLUFF, Friends Ignore You, and...
Sploder is nominally a web-based game-making tool, but, actually, it’s more a collection of tools that make different yet somehow all sort of same-ish platform games. I think either different...
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#GameAWeek Challenge: DiGRA Edition! Six Degrees of Tweetsperation
During this year’s Digital Games Research Association meeting at Salt Lake City in early August, Dennis Ramirez and I got together to collaborate on a Twitter game for the conference! It’s a play on...
View Article#GameAWeek NASAGA edition: Curate! or Stuff Matters! or some other title here…
This past week I was at the North American Simulations and Games Association (NASAGA) conference for the first time. The stories are true; it’s unlike any other conference. There’s a purity and...
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WIP Coastal Run game using Twine #gameawhenever
Pepperdine University Coastal Run/Walk Game test Not final at all but a test to see if I could recreate the awesome Three Fourths Home mechanic of having to continually hold a key down to progress in...
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Playing the Witcher 3 again
So, I got a new graphics card (970 GTX) to play through the Witcher 3 again with higher graphics qualities… But upon installing it, I was reminded that I could import my save game from The Witcher 2:...
View ArticleANNOUNCING 1st issue of Esoteric Gaming!
I am extremely pleased to announce the first collection of stories for Esoteric Gaming, a new website/book project that features accounts of diverse and niche player practice. This is not an academic...
View ArticleTwo awesome things with the Pacific Science Center!
Pacific Science Center is hosting a month-long theme around play, featuring numerous events around play and learning including the current Sherlock Holmes exhibit! I’m involved with two things: First,...
View ArticleThoughts on WoW Classic
Not that anyone’s asked, and, note! a major disclaimer: I haven’t played WoW Classic yet. But I’m finding myself having a lot of thoughts germinating now that WoW Classic has come out, and I thought I...
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