• I loved this game.  It exemplifies for me the strip-bare-and-put-back-with-deliberation-only-what-is-essential-to-the-experience principle.  In [...]

  Sword and Sworcery

  October 29, 2011
• I favor minimalist designs.  Strip everything out and put it back in only very deliberatively with a clearly defined purpose and rationale.  Be [...]

  Down to zero: being deliberate with buzzers and bells

  October 26, 2011
• Roughly speaking, video games were first introduced commercially during the waning reign of arcade games, chief among them pinball.  Smacking a [...]

  Lessons from the Pinball Wizard

  October 24, 2011
• Returning again to the FoldIt game. Here’s the computational problem: finding the solution is really really hard. Okay, more precisely, there [...]

  FoldIt II: Human and machine heuristics, veering off the beaten path

  October 10, 2011

• The tagline of this blog, ‘game design: integrating mind and machine’ is admittedly a bit pompous and vainglorious.  It conjures images of [...]

  Integrating mind and machine. . . not really sci fi

  September 29, 2011
• Okay, I have to say from the outset, I haven’t actually played this game.  My doctoral thesis involved folding proteins.  Literally.  I’d [...]

  FoldIt (part I): From trauma to awe, an (ex-) graduate student’s perspective

  September 26, 2011
• At the August Serious Games conference, educationally oriented games hogged the spotlight, whether teaching kids math, training sailors safety [...]

  Edugaming: knowledge transfer or knowledge generation?

  September 25, 2011