February 2012
38 posts
“Not every player needs to enjoy every kind of game. Nor does every player need...”
– Kate Cox
“What you are really doing with a game is orchestrating an experience, and...”
– Dan Pinchbeck
“Slowly trekking across a deserted lump of rock off the coast of Scotland is not...”
– Daniel Nye Griffith
Games for 2012: Dear Esther, Art and Indie Inward Investment - Forbes
“It’s impressive Dear Esther doesn’t need puzzles or mechanics to...”
– Keza MacDonald
Dear Esther Review - PC Review at IGN
“Dear Esther is a poem, meant to be played. Or it’s a painting, waiting to be...”
– Jordan Ekeroth
WatchPrayer mechanic
“In a market saturated with shooters with very little substance, originality and...”
– ‘Yadda’
“It’s not just telling you the bullet points that they gave me, it’s...”
– John Davison, Gamespot
http://www.industrygamers.com/news/john-davison-part-ii-on-the-brink-of-a-console-shift/
“It never gets old because it speaks to the inexhaustible experience of growing...”
– Tevis Thompson
“Modern Zeldas do not offer worlds. They offer elaborate contraptions reskinned...”
– Tevis Thompson
“It manages to capture that feeling you have when you’re forced to go for a...”
– Phill Cameron
“build small, iterate and expand as you develop the concept”
– Richard Perrin, Rambling about process
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WatchHouse of Detention (by ScanLAB)
“No longer is the artist confined to familiar configurations. The artist can...”
– artnet® Magazine - Features - The Matrix of Sensations by Donald Kuspit
“Where do you want to go today?”
– “Compared with Facebook’s highly deterministic universe, even Microsoft’s unimaginative slogan from the 1990s — “Where do you want to go today?” — sounds excitingly subversive. Who asks that silly question in the age of Facebook?”
-Evgeny Morozov
“Computer games are no mere extensions of traditional games but, with their core...”
– Michael Liebe, “There is no magic circle : on the difference between computer games and traditional games” ( PDF ) ( via Chris DeLeon )
“Computer game programs accordingly define what one can do, and consequentially...”
– Michael Liebe, “There is no magic circle : on the difference between computer games and traditional games” ( PDF ) ( via Chris DeLeon )
“Although there are a lot more rules in computer games through the complex...”
– Michael Liebe, “There is no magic circle : on the difference between computer games and traditional games” ( PDF ) ( via Chris DeLeon )
“There is an important difference between the approach to games by Huizinga or...”
– Michael Liebe, “There is no magic circle : on the difference between computer games and traditional games” ( PDF ) ( via Chris DeLeon )
WatchFlight of the Fireflies – Trailer (by Woolly Robot)
January 2012
21 posts
“Is there a new kind of film? That’s what I’m trying to figure out. I’m trying to...”
– director Steven Soderbergh not finding the medium he wants
“Instead of seeing feedback as rewards for problem-solving, I think we should see...”
– Thomas Grip, Narrative not a game mechanic?
“When we expand the meaning-making conventions that make up human culture, we...”
– Janet H. Murray
“Mainstream games ask for and receive a very high level of time commitment, which...”
– Wes “Window Cleaner” Wilson in an interview on gamescenes
“People are becoming infused with technology, merging with it, if not physically...”
– Mikael Vesavuori, interviewed on Art21 Blog
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