Now with a slightly Square look

If you're viewing this post from the actual blog, you've probably already noticed that the page has a new look. I've moved over to squarespace which has been fantastic in terms of set up. However, I've been a little slow to post because it doesn't have the awesome drafting system that WordPress does. That said, the format and content control here is great. At any rate, this blog post is actually rather delinquent since among other things I haven't actually blogged about my dissertation since that one post with the wordle. Past the jump you'll find a little about the diss including the figure for the model of raid leadership tasks I've developed, and some other odds and ends.

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Game narrative jam part 2 – A few extra pieces

Life gets in the way, especially when it involves things like graduation, conference planning, and dissertation writing. This post slipped from being a couple of  few weeks late to being more like a month late, but I'm going to leave the part that was written previously as is so I can at least get it posted.

We didn't even get into metanarrative or transmedia narrative, maybe next time. Image borrowed from and linked to kotaku.com. Prior to the work flow hurricane which is the AERA conference, I relayed the majority of ideas we played around with in a game narrative jam a couple weeks ago in this post. I'd promised this follow up post sooner, but you know how it goes with the backlog and what not. In this post I'll relay some odds and ends around played narrative conflict in games without a big narrative, some awesome ideas Laura and Ian are tossing around for a library science game, and offer a few thoughts for anyone interested in doing this sort of thing in the privacy of your own classroom, office, or home (for the power geeks among you). Find all this and . . . actually just all of that after the jump.

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Chapter 4, it's happening

Some attribution: http://www.wordle.net/ Images of Wordles are licensed Creative Commons License .

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Shamus Young handles the issue brilliantly

Since I get The Escapist in my feed reader, I always have the opportunity to brighten my day with Shamus Young's Stolen Pixels. He recently started a hilarious series in the aftermath of Ebert's "games will never be art" piece starring Max Payne. Obviously, this is an issue I'm close to having blogged about it here previously. Strip #191 featuring "Big Pete" Molyneux is particularly awesome. If you'd rather start with part 1 of the series, click here first.

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impressionist blog: AERA

exhausted blogging on the couch

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