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Game Design

• Books on game design, creativity & marketing
  Read these books!
• Video: “The Powerful Link Between Creativity And Play”
  Fantastic examples of creativity, human-centered design, rapid prototyping and iterative development.
• Game Design 101 Rant: Over-Reliance On Documentation
  Please don’t write 100+ page design documents.
• Gameplay lessons learned from camp
  What a strange boyscout camp experience from childhood taught me about motivation, emergent player behavior and virtual currency.
• Playing A Singleplayer Game… Massively
  Thoughts on games that allow you to share the same singleplayer experience amongst several players. It’s difficult to explain.
• Designing games for exhibitions or events
  Some cinema directors invited me to a symposium to talk about gaming. This is what I told them.

Other Stuff

• Children of Men is totally like Half-Life
  Like, whoa.
• Idea: shower karaoke
  This is only the best game idea ever.
• Kinetic Typography In Games
  A fancy term for “moving text”. Mostly in opening and credit sequences.  
• Interactive Journalism
  About the sheer inability of game journalists to do any research at all, unless it’s an ARG.
• Curlz and Comic Sans: just say no
  Poor typography in UI can be very distracting 
• Gaming is forever doomed: a rebuttal
  Can games ever reach a cultural impact on par with other media like books or film?