Meaningful Play 2012 Day #1 Recap
Meaningful Play 2012の１日目終了でござる。様々、非常に面白いゲーム研究者出会った。それぞれの皆さまは、ゲームの分析方法・観点とかは極めて多様である。自分の発表もう終了でござる。それを通して、自分の実験的なゲーム分析方法は正しくやっているのがわかった。（写...
Made it to Michigan for Meaningful Play 2012
やっと着きました。一番うれしい点は、Burger Kingが近くにある。おやすみ。 Made it to my hotel safely, 25 hours after I left the house. I am jazzed that there is a real...
Meaningful Play 2012 1st Keynote Speaker--Donald Brinkman
Donald Brinkman of Microsoft's games and learning R&D and his phenomenal mention of Rainbow-puking Pandas at his keynote presentation to...
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...
The Illusion of Choice in Games
Espen Aarseth on Quest Games: "Successful productions of this type, whether we call them stories, games, or story-game hybrids, must find...
I believe I am an astute reader, but...
Alright, I'm not yet finished reading the entirety of the article entitled "A Narrative Theory of Games" by Games Studies fixture Espen...
"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...
One Anime Opening Crawl to Rule them All
DAICON was a series of sci-fi and animation conventions held in Osaka in the 80s. Here's the phenomenally weird opening of DAICON IV,...
