Aliens and stuff

Edit: There's a better version of this text on one of my other blogs, so I removed this older edition.

Today

Five Tactics for Designing Games While Depressed

Epic choices and the lack thereof

Dracula, Frankenstein, and the T-virus: Resident Evil's Victorian roots

Replay as meditation

The Psychology of Games: Procedural Justice And Nerfing

gdc 2011: friday

Simulacra or Simulation [What Games Are Not]

Project M-etagame Brawl Development

GDC 2011: Rohrer Wins Game Design Challenge With Unique Minecraft Mod

Design Diversions: Dialogue - Recipe for Sociopathy

Today

on the value of academic blogging


Why aliens are hell and zombies are heaven

Alex Reid on Blogging

Is happiness boring?

Class sex toy demonstration causes controversy

SWIFT-avtalet: Granskning är omöjlig

Drama as Ecological Form

nulla scientia probat suum subjectum esse

Det artificiella perspektivet

Om bokens vedersakare och textlivets hastigheter

Farliga medborgare

Arbetarrörelsens framtid
...fackföreningsrörelse i kris

Muslim student sues FBI over GPS tracking device placed on his car without a warrant

Banksy bails out Russian graffiti artists

http://christopherkullenberg.se/?p=2109

Försvara yttrandefriheten – avkriminalisera den tecknade barnporren!

Today in games

Symbiosis
Masquerading avatar autonomy as player actions

Casual and social gamers

Money for art

Controlling the Rapids: Comparisons between Real-World and On-Screen Fun

Seeing Like A State: Why Strategy Games Make Us Think and Behave Like Brutal Psychopaths

Queer Characters: Hespith & Branka

Minecraft: The Story of Mojang

Internet today

GAMES


Before LIMBO


'Dragon Age' Lets Me Celebrate Girl Power (And Doesn't Make Me Self-Conscious)


Seven Ways a Video Game Can Be Moral


Clint hocking on dynamics


Playing Games Simply for the experience


GDC 2011: Time To Ditch The Term 'Gamification'?


There is a lot to say about the term “gamification”


Announcing Transmedia, Hollywood 2: Visual Culture and Design

OTHER


Vardagens tragik


Respons istället för politisk påverkan - Judith Butlers ickevåld II


Blade Runner Sequel (or Prequel) in Development Now


Akoha-- A Direct Action Game?


Pakistan’s first science fiction film is post apocalyptic


Evolutionary Psychology Bingo

Barnporrhysterin visar sitt fula ansikte


A speech from Carl Sagan that will make you cry


On slut-shaming, deleting comments, and respectful discourse


Staying alive in a broken reality


Women's stories, oscars and movies