Games as Rhetoric

I finally got around to reading this post on Raph Koster’s blog. It’s powerful, thoughtful, and emotional. I’m not sure I have anything to add yet, but I wanted to refer people to his post because it captures a lot about the current independent games scene that I hadn’t recognized or put into words yet….

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Pumpkins 2012

Pumpkin carving with my wife and brother-in-law again this year! That’s my triforce on the left, Alleson’s tree on the right and our brother’s ghost in the middle. I feel like my carving quality is up a notch this year, but I’m still fond of my 2010 work.

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Crossing Paths with C-3PO

I love my school. I’ve had the pleasant occasion of meeting Anthony Daniels again! And this time I was asked to write a short report on our time with him. Photo by JD Hancock on Flickr. Used under Creative Commons Attribution license.

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The Collected Lessons of ETC Spring 2012

In preparation for a new project this Fall, I have been reading through the ETC project postmortems from Spring 2012 and looking for common themes that I can implement into my next effort to make it successful. This is my own summary lens on 14 postmortems. I believe the postmortems are internal to ETC so…

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