From the monthly archives: November 2004

Tragic

By On 18/11/2004 ·

As my illustruous office-mate has suggested spammer abuse of open comment systems on blogs represents a Tragedy of the Comments. Now, there’s a paper wanting to be written…

[But of course somebody already did]

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A circle within a circle

By On 15/11/2004 ·

Quite a bit of confusion stems, I’m beginning to think, from the fact that when debating games it is easy to be unclear about one’s level of analysis. Three levels tend to be intermingled:

A) The Core Game
This is the more or less hypothetical ideal game defined by what Salen & Zimmerman call [...]

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The grind

By On 15/11/2004 ·

DIGRA abstract deadline is approaching. Keyboard a-blazing and coffee a-steaming. Vancouver looks charming.

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They rigged the game

By On 14/11/2004 ·

Today, photographer Michael Forsmark allegedly videotaped one of the Danish princes (the younger one) driving recklessly (and way too fast) with his two sons in the car. Forsmark reported this incident to the police who have been quick to comment that even if the accusations are true the prince may [...]

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Better safe than circle

By On 09/11/2004 ·

Okay, here’s a little thought. Computer games differ from casually played analogue games in the sense that in the former case the computer processes the game rules while in the latter the processing is performed by human brains and negotiated through language etc. (as I believe Jesper has said somewhere).
This [...]

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