Project Horseshoe

Project HorseshoeAs you are probably aware, the Project Horseshoe reports have been released online. One that caught my interest was the Game Designer’s Bookshelf which addresses the problem of the lack of a good catalogue of books for game designers to learn from.

Apparently a website is in the works, although it is not live at the time of writing. I look forward to seeing how this goes.

Published in: on February 16, 2009 at 3:11 am Comments (2)

Connecting the brainysphere.

Blogging can be a very fragmented conversation. I just wanted to make a brief mention of two efforts to connect the dots on the brainysphere:

It is good to see efforts to bring the conversation together like this. Thankyou Micahel and Corvus.

Published in: on February 2, 2009 at 9:19 am Leave a Comment

On moral detachment

I’ve been confronted recently with my moral detachment when playing video games. I’ve recently enjoyed playing Fallout 3 and I have tried to explain my reasons to my housemate, who is not a gamer. She was interested enough to watch me play for a minute, but was turned off at the first slow-motion decapitation (which seem to happen pretty often, come to think of it).

Fallout 3 screenshot
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