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Back to Denki and it seems that the key rule about coming up with new game ideas here is to just run with them right away. “Immediacy is about proving something as quickly as possible, by any means possible,” says Penn, “you can do it through pictures, play acting, animation, video, anything it takes to…

Of the two powerful instincts which exist in all human beings and which can be used in teaching, says Gilbert Highet, one is the love of play. ”The best Renaissance teachers, instead of beating their pupils, spurred them on by a number of appeals to the play-principle. They made games out of the chore of…

In many ways, Denki seems to be the spiritual successor to DMA Design, another Dundee-based developer, formed by Lemmings creator Dave Jones in the late-eighties. There, a similar approach to game development thrived – the idea of games as toys, with interface and interaction at the summit of the design process, rather than visuals or…

It’s that lack of differentiation in experience and jobs that Garriott misses. “There aren’t really people that own a shop in town square and that’s what they do, and they have a friend who’s a fishermen, and that’s what he does,” he explained. “With Ultima Online, what was so cool about it is that there…