Entries from December 2007

Game Innovation?

Date December 12, 2007

There’s something that I find funny about a list of ‘game innovations.’ Are we talking technical innovations or creative design innovations? And is there really a difference to begin with? Or should we even care about innovations? Case in discussion point: Top 10 Game Innovations 2007 by James Portnow on Next Generation. Right point 10, [...]

Required Reading List

Date December 9, 2007

Posted up an article page that lists (mostly) the books that I’ve used since my undergraduate years and to this day. Feel free to take a look and/or suggest more for the list! Required Reading

Games and Academics

Date December 8, 2007

For years as I was going through my undergraduate work at Emerson College, the weekly tradition of watching [adult swim] as my weekly fill of television would occasionally be tainted with a certain advertisement. A certain school with a ‘gaming degree program’ spot starts out with the question about why ‘you’ haven’t made your video [...]

Beginnings

Date December 2, 2007

The way I want to start out this blog is to explain why I am setting this up. The idea of making my first post as a meta-post is entirely fitting for both myself and this blog as I like my meta with meta and a side order of meta. When I left the educational [...]