Lasy night, being up checking the web and writing about Bruce’s book at 2am meant that I barely woke up in time today to make it to our tour of the very cool stuff being done at Georgia Tech in the games, augmented reality, and interface areas. Boy, am I glad I woke up. Here, take a brief illustrated tour wih me — warning, a bunch of photos may make this slow to open.
Have single-player games ever existed?
(Visited 19485 times)I promise this wil be the last post on this subject in a while…!
This made me wonder, Raph, how you define a single player game?
A game that is not played in opposition to, or in parallel with, or collaboratively with, someone else.
But I suspect that won’t be sufficient, because you will also need to understand my definitions of “game”, “played,” and “parallel.”
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Shaping Games
(Visited 27751 times)Here I am on a plane to Atlanta, and I just finished reading Bruce Sterling’s book Shaping Things. My MP3 player is at home, and I didn’t bring any movies, and I don’t feel like reading, and the in-flight movie is over. So instead, I thought I’d jot down some notes on what I just read.
Gamespot interview up
(Visited 10156 times)Hello from lovely (I presume, since I haven’t seen any of it) Atlanta!
I did a Gamespot interview right after doing the Churchill Club thing. It’s now been posted, so I thought I would link to it before going to find some dinner.
Happy Valentine’s Day, Kristen!
(Visited 5810 times)I fly out for Atlanta this morning, which means that I had to be sneaky, and buy the roses and whatnot the day before, hide them in the car trunk, and then outwait her tonight so I could set them up on the desk after she went to bed. 🙂