Cultural Technology
Samuel, via Potts and Murphie, wonders where culture ends and technology begins. I think today, certainly in the first world, to think one is separate from the other has all the hallmarks of a myth of... Read More
Games, Stories, It’s a Mess
Abby thinks games maybe are like stories and argues that "the user is always the protagonist". I'd agree with that 100% and then ask how many stories have you read/watched where you can even make t... Read More
More Richness
Though the thing to take away is the long tail point, what lies in the tail is greater than what lies at the big end, so for online stuff something important is that while it might seem obvious that t... Read More
The Internet of Things
Courtesy of Zoe the internet of everything , which is a riff off the current idea of an internet of things.... Read More
Is It a Game?
Just as an interactive narrative that has a small moment of game play in it probably doesn't make it a game. ... If people talk about it in terms of how you play it, and what you need to do in room X... Read More
Losing, Winning
Good questions open ended answers (it's a fool's paradise to think there are yes no answers to many of these questions). Play is not the same as a game, a game is, basically, competitive play and it... Read More
Last Week.
I rank other people's comments and those who consistently seem to be highly rated by others will be elevated in terms of authority in, and by, the system (this is essentially a slashdot system as th... Read More