• A long-standing distinction in psychology, particularly within education, is that between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation.  Extrinsic [...]

  Intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivation: Is there really a difference?

  November 20, 2011
• Who says advertising never contributed anything of worth to humanity? After playing this game, I went out and bought a pack of Trident vitality [...]

  Falling Stars. . . by Trident

  November 6, 2011
• 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