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[Michael] Clune is out for something slightly different. “Gamelife” uses his memories of playing games as a lens through which to tell a literary coming-of-age story—a bildungsroman put forth in units of screen time. Tightly focussed on that evanescent period between the age of seven and early adolescence, the book’s chapters are each devoted to…
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progress report
I’m thinking of scrapping the visual work I’ve created and starting over with much smaller and much more gestural figure drawings. here are experiments at two different scales. I am able to lose myself in the conversation with Paper.app. through these scribbles I can convey more emotion than I can algorithmically.
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CFP: Morality Play
wordsonplay: Call for PapersGames and CultureGuest editors: Malcolm Ryan, Rowan Tulloch and Paul Formosa Morality PlayThe Design of Games for Ethical Engagement Questions of morality are a pervasive topic for media and the arts. Across every medium we see artists engaging audiences with challenging moral questions concerning topics such as war, crime, corruption, fidelity and…
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CFP: Morality Play
wordsonplay: Call for PapersGames and CultureGuest editors: Malcolm Ryan, Rowan Tulloch and Paul Formosa Morality PlayThe Design of Games for Ethical Engagement Questions of morality are a pervasive topic for media and the arts. Across every medium we see artists engaging audiences with challenging moral questions concerning topics such as war, crime, corruption, fidelity and…
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companies and organizations want marginalized creators to contribute to their events, but with little to no compensation for the work. The most egregious offender of this GDC, which is for-profit yet has the most extensive process for extracting labor for talks given for one of their passes, which gets most of its value from the…
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companies and organizations want marginalized creators to contribute to their events, but with little to no compensation for the work. The most egregious offender of this GDC, which is for-profit yet has the most extensive process for extracting labor for talks given for one of their passes, which gets most of its value from the…
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Clone Spotting: How Counterfeits Hurt the Open Source Movement | Make:
Clone Spotting: How Counterfeits Hurt the Open Source Movement | Make: “A few months ago a super-user friend of ours, “Grumpy Mike,” spotted what he thought might be a clone on the Arduino.cc forum. He was right. He had been helping a user with their project, but the board wasn’t responding as it should. After…
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stilleatingoranges: Critics panned it. A pedestrian cable drama sneered at it. Worse, its creator disowned it–loudly. And none of the foregoing, although ominous, is indicative of its quality. The film is Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium, a children’s picture unfairly reviled in 2007 and forgotten afterward. Between slick credits sequences animated by William Joyce, it weaves…
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stilleatingoranges: Critics panned it. A pedestrian cable drama sneered at it. Worse, its creator disowned it–loudly. And none of the foregoing, although ominous, is indicative of its quality. The film is Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium, a children’s picture unfairly reviled in 2007 and forgotten afterward. Between slick credits sequences animated by William Joyce, it weaves…
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mfortki: ENgendering Gender Changers Connections for Disconnections from Queer Technology ENgenderingGenderChangers is a “solution” to Gender Adaptersʼ male/female binary, offering a wider array of gender adapters for the ever increasing complexity and demands of the Information Technology workforce. By expanding serial adapters beyond male and female configurations, ENgenderingGenderChangers allow for new and unforeseen serial connections to…