DiGRA Conference Announcement
DiGRA JAPAN (Digital Games Research Association) has announced their annual conference (March 4th~5th, 2013). This year it will be held...
Conference on the Apocalypse
Holy crap. I just received a conference alert for a conference about the Apocalypse. Anything re: the End of the World is welcome,...
Meaningful Play 2012 Day #2 Recap: We Are Game Studies
http://flickr.com/meaningfullyplay Meaningful Play 2012の参加者や発表者の写真でござる。われわれは最後らへんにある。 The Flickr account of the presenters and attendees...
Meaningful Play 2012 Student Game: "Don't Kill the Cow"
学生製作、道徳的「Don't Kill the Cow!」(牛を殺すな)というゲームである。目的はそのままである。ただ、7分間で牛を殺せず。だが、ちゃんと牛を無視したら、妹がなくなる。プレーヤーにとって、どちらのほうが大事: 条件を満たすことか妹を救うことか？...
Can Academics use Cheat Codes to facilitate their Research?
Professor Aarseth on the use of cheating in games (for the purposes of conducting research): "It is with great and increasing regret that...
"Protect Mode"
I am currently revising my submission for Meaningful Play. It seems I'm in Protect Mode: I'm trying to make revisions based on peer...
Need to do it all. Can't do it all.
My brain has been hurting a lot recently for a variety of reasons. Today I believe it hurts because I have an unshakable urge to want to...
Paper Accepted!
Looks like I'll be heading to Michigan in October for the Meaningful Play 2012 conference on serious games (http://meaningfulplay.msu.edu...
A Guitar happened to be there
Everyday at around lunch I take a 30-minute guitar break in the side/meeting/break room attached to our lab. Thank the gods, the old and...
Mathematical Rigor out of Byzantine Ways
According to Khan Academy's wonderful video tutorials on Linear Algebra: "If anything, in linear algebra, the gods of linear algebra are...
