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#AltGames #AltGames #AltGames – Fireside by Game Jolt
#AltGames #AltGames #AltGames – Fireside by Game Jolt in order to help the effort: altgames (#AltGames) are an important (re)assertion and (re)affirmation of an inclusive aesthetics for videogames. It has no choice but to identify as an alternative aesthetics as its practitioners are intersectionally and redundantly marginalized by mainstream ones. An important link is the…
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Most videogames fail.
mikebithell: Make your game for mobile.Make your game for console.Make your game for anything but PC.Make your game for PC first.Make your game free to play.Make your game $60.Make your game $20.Make your game shareware.Make your game on facebook.Make your game appeal to youtubers.Make your game into a gif on twitter.Make your game about a…
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rubberninjers: coastrobbo: theoneandonlysputnick: Cards Against Humanity’s booth at Pax was literally made of cardboard. They were also handing out free condoms to promote their new game “Clusterfuck”. Which is a game about having sex with your friends. Cards Against Humanity is one of the most satirical existential commentary on the human concept of comedy I’ve…
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Google Offers Cheap Storage for Certain Kinds of Data
Google Offers Cheap Storage for Certain Kinds of Data stoweboyd: Google’s long game, in other words, is positioning itself as the cloud computing company for all kinds of data analysis, something that it at the heart of its search engine business. “It’s not about storage, it’s about what you’ll do with analytics,” said Tom Kershaw,…
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vixyish: ursulavernon: A friend requested I make this, and so here it is, and I offer it to anyone who needs it, with all the authority vested in me by whoever vests these things. Print it out if you need to. The best art advice ever given to me—ever, ever—was “Don’t be afraid to make…
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None of my work has met my own standards. William Faulkner (via theparisreview)
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kateoplis: Monir Farmanfarmaian has become the first Iranian artist to have a solo exhibition at the Guggenheim, at the age of 92.
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One example this week is the reaction to an article by Ian Bogost at the Atlantic. Bogost asks a perfectly intellectual question about the direction of the gaming medium, about whether the focus on characters at the expense of expressive systems was a bad choice. His is a question analogous to any that a literary…
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