Stuff that I have written.
Once upon a time there were
One hundred kings all in a castle.
Each one had his own bedroom
And thrones with golden tassles.
They had red robes and silver crowns,
Big halls with walls of stone!
But when they ate their dinners,
They ate them all alone.
In the last few days, I’ve seen this huge huge spike in the web traffic for the book’s website. I have no idea why. Glancing at the logs, I see that a lot of it seems to be driven by downloads of presentations such as the keynote I gave at Training Fall 2005.
This got me curious as to whether this was driven by academic traffic, since that group was trainers and educators. Are you using A Theory of Fun as a text?
The land is under the sky
And the ocean is under the sky
But the land is also under the ocean.
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A Theory of Fun made Next Generation’s list of “50 Books For Everyone In the Game Industry” written by Ernest Adams. It’s quite a good list — I think I have read 2/3rds of it.
This article exploring the connection between Spore and “Power of Ten” thinking and other cultural issues appeared yesterday. I chatted with Steven at some length for the article, and also went through two incredibly detailed fact-checking calls. (I’ve noticed that when I appear in Harper’s, NYT, New Yorker, I get these massive fact-checking calls about small things; when I am in gaming mags, I never get a call at all, including about big things).
Along the way, Steven (whom I haven’t managed to break from the habit of calling me Ralph) calls A Theory of Fun “one of the best books to date about games and culture.” Now if only he’d give me some of his spare New York Times bestseller slots — not like he’s short of them…!
