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The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:
Elizabeth Segran: "Game developers have always been interested in how players might react to the characters and plots they created—but what if they could tell exactly how the player was feeling and tailor the game to their mood?" 
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Pascal Luban: "Gameplay for episodic games:Questions to answer and pitfalls to avoid" ...
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The Guardian: "Naomi Alderman imagines a future where we have created full artificial intelligence for video games. It may not be as entertaining as you think" ...
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Steven Melendez: "How escape room developers use tech, theater, and game design principles to make puzzles you can actually solve but can't break."
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Liz England: "A lot of developers (and some gamers) are kind of aware there’s this tool called “Twine” out there that makes web games, but don’t really know much about it. They don’t know why it’s popular and what it’s used for" ...
David Collet's curator insight,
September 1, 2015 1:02 AM
I am really enthusiastic about alternative career paths. This looks like it may assist someone trying to find a different way to 'test the waters' of publishing to an alternative stream. 
Jenny Wakefield's curator insight,
September 14, 2015 9:33 AM
I like this idea for creating interactive stories: Twine. The tool is available at http://twinery.org
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Kyle Orland: "Complex, gripping crime drama proves FMV games don't have to be awful."
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Maria Popova: "Great stories, like great life-stories, are woven of the same interplay between fertile ennui and surmountable frustration — so argues writer Peter Turchi in one especially rewarding section of the altogether stimulating A Muse and a Maze: Writing as Puzzle, Mystery, and Magic (public library | IndieBound)."
Dr. Pamela Rutledge's curator insight,
February 10, 2015 11:50 AM
One of the exciting gifts of the rising popularity of gaming and, by extension, game design is the increased visibility and appreciation of relationships among user experience, psychology and narrative. This creates a broader understanding of the need for psych theories, like Flow, in thinking about and designing media and technology (#mediapsych). As this excellent article illustrates, Flow, like narrative, is based on the fundamental push/pull of energy in every experience, the inherent conflict that moves life forward. Flow is a masterful model of how this balance translates into psychological engagement.
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The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:
Jeff Beer: "You're running through the streets of Paris. The year is 1789 and you've just killed a guy with your bare hands. The question is, do you care if the graffiti you just sprinted past is historically accurate? Ubisoft does."
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Tadhg Kelly: '"Game designer" sounds like a cool job, but often game designers actually do a much more ordinary job' ...
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Mark Wilson: "A brand-new platform. A tiny studio. A hard launch date with no opportunity for delays. Broken Rules cofounder Felix Bohatsch shares how the team pulled it off."
Matmi's curator insight,
January 17, 2013 7:13 AM
Some great lessons for those in game design. We have a bunch of incredibly talented designers and designers here at Matmi who are always looking to learn more and developer there skills so we are able to give our clients the best game possible - HK
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Kevin Ohannessian: "One of the most acclaimed games of the year is one of the most unusual--a game that has players discovering the unfinished world of a madly creative king. Creator Ian Dallas talks about making a game about creativity itself."
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Simon Hill: "Griefers, the people in games that deliberately try to annoy others, are a problem for gamers. So how do developers plan design a game knowing that a small group will actively try to undermine their work?"
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"I always ask my game design students: "Where in this game is there a moment where the player is faced with an interesting choice?". These are the moments that give a game depth because players will want to explore the possibilities of their decisions"...
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Pascal Luban: "A game based on “brands” as strong as The Walking Dead or Games of Thrones automatically generate a lot of interest from gamers and the media. However, it would be a mistake to assume that episodic games became successful only because of their affiliation with some of the most popular TV series."
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Pascal Luban: "Episodic games are not making the headlines yet but they are quietly carving out their place in the industry. As a reminder, those games are sold in episodes. Each of them costs a few dollars and offers between one and three hours of gameplay. Those games can only be found in digital form; players must download them and they cannot be purchased in retail stores."
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Jake Muncy: "Open-world games leave players to their own devices, free to explore what amounts to an enormous sandbox with no boundaries and few rules."
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Rhys Cooper: "The never-ending argument over what video games are designed for rages on. Should they just be fun, a piece of art, a fantastic story-telling experience or a combination of all three? Most would argue the latter, but for the moment I will focus on the narrative strategies in games and a particular bug-bear of mine" ...
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Adam Clare: "Want to design your own escape games? Here are tips on how to make your room escape game more fun and engaging. Including trends in real room escape games."
Daniel Calabuig's curator insight,
August 5, 2015 1:32 PM
Adam Clare: "Want to design your own escape games? Here are tips on how to make your room escape game more fun and engaging. Including trends in real room escape games."
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The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:
Tadhg Kelly: "VR's coming whether you like it or not. How best to make use if it?"
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Mary Lee Sauder: "If you’ve ever studied art, you may have heard the term “painterliness,” used to describe works of art that derive meaning from drawing attention to the fact that they are just paint on a canvas or clay molded by human hands."
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Christy Dena: "In this post I’ll describe my problem with (some) videogames, how I figured out the nature of the problem, and what it means."
Dr. Helen Teague's curator insight,
August 3, 2014 9:15 AM
Extremely interesting discussion by Christy Dena about pervasive games, the fictional world we create overlaps with the player’s world. Dena includes external links to important studies and resources. I did not know what QWOP meant until this post (QWOP is a 2008 ragdoll-based Flash game created by former Cut Copy bassist Bennett Foddy. Players control an athlete named "Qwop" using only the Q, W, O, and P keys)
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Tadhg Kelly: "Although it's not the first of its type (that honor belongs to Mob Wars) I've come to regard Zynga's Mafia Wars as a milestone moment in game design."
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Matthew Reynolds: "LEGO Lord of the Rings sees Traveller's Tales take on yet another movie franchise, but with a few twists, constructing an open world and using role-playing game elements to make an experience with more depth and scope. We chat with producer Nick Ricks about the challenges of recreating Middle-earth, how side-quests were approached and how film dialogue was used in-game" ...
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Frank Cifaldi: "Creating a living, breathing, believable city is one of the biggest challenges to developers of open world gaming, so we asked the creative director of the upcoming Assassin's Creed III to share his secrets with you."
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Jason Schreier: "Words bounce and move in certain directions, with certain cadences and beats. You can tell when the pulse isn't there"...
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Elizabeth Segran: "Game developers have always been interested in how players might react to the characters and plots they created—but what if they could tell exactly how the player was feeling and tailor the game to their mood?"
Elizabeth Segran: "Game developers have always been interested in how players might react to the characters and plots they created—but what if they could tell exactly how the player was feeling and tailor the game to their mood?"