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In studies across all age ranges, nocturnal sleep duration has been proven to be unaffected by midday napping. As a matter of fact, studies indicate that in a number of cases napping actually improves the ability to sleep at night. (via Cool Tools: Take a Nap! Change Your Life) The Science of Siesta
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The paper argues that cyberpunk culture embedded certain notions (“global cities”, cities as communication system, the importance of Los Angeles school of urban studies). It also highlights how urban planners can “understand the influence of a range of social theories on public understanding of planning issues“. (via Pasta&Vinegar » Blog Archive » Urban theories embedded…
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via Jesper Juul
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Not long after writing A Game Has Never Made You Cry I read Kendall Walton’s Mimesis as Make-Believe and began writing about game design as make-believe, the topic that forms the core of my latest book Imaginary Games. On Walton’s theory, all fiction is a kind of game – specifically a game of make-believe, related…
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Ian Bogost has drawn attention to the theoretical importance of the engine for game development. In many respects, the engine is the game – or rather, any given engine supports a wide array of games with fundamentally similar capabilities. The engine determines what a game can or cannot do, and the cost of developing the…
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The true prototype for a museum, for me, is simply a street, any street. […] We have to re-invent the street as museum; a collection of everyday objects in everyday use. – Yona Friedman (via underpaidgenius) this would be a design museum, I think.
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All that is needed is a strong critical discourse surrounding artgames to develop, and for artgame aggregators to become discerning. Such aggregators cannot afford to be bogged down with Braid and Portal – this road cannot lead to cultural esteem. They must instead find and discuss those games like Passage, The Graveyard, The Marriage, The…
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All that is needed is a strong critical discourse surrounding artgames to develop, and for artgame aggregators to become discerning. Such aggregators cannot afford to be bogged down with Braid and Portal – this road cannot lead to cultural esteem. They must instead find and discuss those games like Passage, The Graveyard, The Marriage, The…
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All that is needed is a strong critical discourse surrounding artgames to develop, and for artgame aggregators to become discerning. Such aggregators cannot afford to be bogged down with Braid and Portal – this road cannot lead to cultural esteem. They must instead find and discuss those games like Passage, The Graveyard, The Marriage, The…
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Show me the pixels. Akihabara is composed of a number of libraries that use HTML5 canvas tag and some standard hooks. Gamebox module is complete and compact enough for making games: it allows multiple grouped objects moving simultaneously, it helps with collisions, rendering and moving objects. It provides monospaced pixel-fonts rendering too. It handles keyboard,…