game designer, programmer, educator, and conceptual artist from new york city
Yesterday a college student wrote me asking for advice on how to do what I do. It has been a few years since anyone has asked me this, and once I started writing I found it hard to stop. I think I probably wrote a bit too much to them, so I figured I’d put the meat of my reply online in the hopes…
Andrew Webster over at The Verge interviewed Rami Ismail, Asher Vollmer, and I about Pokemon Go. It's a great piece and the thoughts from Asher and Rami are very good. You should read the piece.
Speedcloning.
This morning I was having a conversation with a few smart indie friends and we ended up somehow diving into the murky waters of clones. What it made clear is that ‘Cloning’ means a lot of things to a lot of people — what exactly is a clone? Where is the line between cloning and inspiration? Why is it that some…
First, A medium-length disclaimer:
It’s tough to write about the IGF critically in the current internet climate — actually, to be honest, it’s tough to write about anything critically in the current internet climate without accidentally devolving the conversation into a…
Doug Wilson (@doougle) has been asking me to write this up for months now so I figured I’d take a stab at it.
My wife Amy and I totally love Netrunner, enough so that we bought all the cards up…