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What Happens When You Get Rid Of Managers?
stoweboyd: I read a fascinating interview of Ryan Carson, the CEO of Treehouse, by Adam Bryant. About a year ago, when the company had reached about 50 people in size, Carson decided that the company was getting too politicized and not acting like a start-up anymore. So he and his co-founder realized that this is…
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Thus, art in the broadest sense of the word can use play and games as aesthetic weapons to undermine and overcome the restrictions of mainstream policies and confront them with alternative forms of expression. Astrid Ensslin. Literary Gaming. 2014. (via andreblyth)
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Virtual Reality Arms – Control VR & Oculus LAN Party tech demo is a dudebro picnic (by Node) (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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“It’s an unacceptable state of affairs where a studio can have a bona fide hit and then need to lay people off—something that increasingly appears to be the status quo,” said the employee of a major publisher. Why Game Developers Keep Getting Laid Off
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A prototype house for Cité Soleil. To make it, Romero cut apart a soda can and crinkled it to resemble corrugated metal. “The other game I’m working on is called Cité Soleil. It’s about life in a slum of Port au Prince, Haiti. By American standards, Port au Prince is a slum, so this is…
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In 2008, she began a design exercise that expanded into a series called “The Mechanic Is the Message” — analog (not video) games that use game mechanics, boards, pieces, and rules to help a player think through hard problems. Her game “The New World” was an attempt to explain U.S. slavery, and the experiences of…
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Being connected to everyone, all the time, is a new human experience; we’re just not equipped to cope with it yet. Jacob Burak, Can we break free from the fear of missing out? Great quote, although I disagree with a lot of the Sherry Turkle and Robin Dunbar psychobabble. Being connected online does not cheapen…
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It’s important to know that NBC is owned by General Electric (which means that interviews with people who live near a nuclear plant undoubtedly would be … but then again, such a story wouldn’t even occur to anyone), that CBS is owned by Westinghouse, and ABC by Disney, that TF1 belongs to Bouygues, and that…
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Building Creativity
ourrisd: The new and improved Rigamajig by Assistant Professor of Industrial Design Cas Holman – a 263-piece building kit for kids – officially launched at the end of May. Holman designed the kit to bolster creativity, teamwork and engineering skills among elementary school students. “Most kids don’t get to build their own tree houses and forts…