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I’M BACK
from America with a whole heap of development advice and ideas, and frogs. Mainly frogs. A Balinese frog sculpture at an "exotic" themed resort. It was curious to be in…
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Pop Culture is a cancer and needs fixing
When the Star Wars trilogy was complete George Lucas flew the writer Joseph Campbell over to Skywalker Ranch for a private viewing of all three in a row. Campbell was…
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Ever More Paranoid, Ever More Critical
Game Design In this episode – more paranoia. The swelling continues to the point where my head feels giddy. I sketched out a 3D model of an area the size…
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Paranoid Critical
I haven’t said much about theme parks recently, even though that’s where all the pain is taking place. It seems time for a Pain Bulletin. A really long one, sorry.…
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Further lessons from magical kingdoms
In which we draw some technical conclusions. Sanity Clause. Before going deeper it’s worth a sanity check, in that the finances of our test subjects are beyond our reckoning. The…
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Narrative, Media Art and Donald Duck
In which I go looking in Halloween USA for the pumpkin spice of contemporary media art, and find that interaction design is better done with personalities than push-buttons. I’m in…