From the monthly archives: December 2005

Sydney-bound (apartment for rent)

By On 17/12/2005 ·

All signs indicate that I’ll be spending February and March of 2006 as a visiting research fellow at Macquarie University, Sydney. I’ll be associated with a group of game research-oriented people there. Among other things I’m excited to learn more about a project they’re doing on multiplayer game-play analysis (central to Anders Tychsen [...]

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Reluctantly interactive stacking game a success with parents’ groups

By On 15/12/2005 ·

Take-Two’s "Stacker" wins the acclaim of parents’ groups: "A demo version of Stacker was unveiled at the Tokyo Game Show in September and garnered praise from parents’ groups who lauded its unstimulating visuals, utter lack of storyline, and non-immersive game play."

Developers promise that "We’re confident that the new ‘reluctantly interactive’ content engine we designed [...]

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