Video Games Live tomorrow

 Posted by (Visited 5752 times)  Game talk, Music
Sep 202006
 

Unless these allergies that have knocked me flat keep me still flat tomorrow, the whole family will be at the Video Games Live concert at the Hollywood Bowl tomorrow. There are even tickets left. I’ll be doing the Meet and Greet thing too, though I will probably miss out on meeting all the gameplayin’ celebs in Hollywood at the afterparty because I have to get the kids back home to get at least some sleep on a school night. It’ll be a late night as it is, but they’ve been pestering me about the show ever since they saw the classic game montage. (Note: YouTube seems to be down right now, but when it’s up, the first movie on that page should work).

In the newbie’s shoes

 Posted by (Visited 12069 times)  Game talk
Sep 192006
 

I think one of the hardest tricks in the world of game design is to put yourself in the shoes of the player. It’s particularly hard when we’re designing games for an audience that isn’t like us — and the audience that is usually least like us is the newbie.

There’s a blog of relatively recent vintage called, appropriately enough, Newbie, that illustrates this. It’s the experiences of a 46-year-old named Tom Miller who is not a gamer. He has trouble with puzzle games, and The Sims 2 utterly defeats him.

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Harper’s Forum posted

 Posted by (Visited 5349 times)  Game talk
Sep 192006
 

But not by Harper’s but instead some random blog that appears to make a career out of scanning and OCR’ing articles out of magazines. How odd. In any case, it’s over here.

(For those who do not recall, this is a roundtable discussion on the topic of games and education that I participated in a while back).

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