Read about a presentation at the Game Developers Conference 2010 today entitled “Five ways games can make you cry.” You should read the whole article if interested, but a summary is listed below for your convenience, along with some thoughts.
Read more "How games can make you cry"All works of fiction entertain to some degree, so I would say that’s a given. If the audience learns anything about life or themselves, that’s bonus. But the Holy Grail of all fiction is immersion.
Read more "Immersion: the Holy Grail of video game design"This guy is the virtual Bernie Madoff. I suppose it was only a matter of time before this happened…What’s next: applying real criminal law to such virtual crimes? The best parts are the virtual bank run and the “ironically” segments toward the end of the excerpt.
Read more "Gamer steals from virtual world to pay real debts"There’s an interesting article on CNN.com about the 10 things you can learn about heroes from action movies. Below are the four that I feel are most true.
Read more "What action movies teach us about heroes"Here is an interesting article about how and why Star Trek and Star Wars attract different kinds of fans and why their fans act so differently, even though the works are both ‘sci-fi.’
Read more "Star Trek vs. Star Wars"I’m not referring to the content that is transmitted but the speed in which it is transmitted. As technology gets faster and faster, will there come a point when it begins to unravel what makes us human? Have we already reached this point?
Read more "Is technology eroding morality?"I just finished watching the film When Nietzsche Wept (based on the book of the same title). It’s an interesting story that mixes some historical figures and events with Nietzschean philosophy and Freudian psychology. Although the movie has its flaws, it’s worth watching if you’re interested in any of these topics.
Read more "When Nietzsche Wept"I recently watched a great documentary called Man on Wire. It is the story of a tightrope walker named Philippe Petit, whose dream, nay, obsession was to tightrope walk between the towers of the World Trade Center.
Read more "Man on Wire"TCKs face many potential challenges from finding themselves to choosing careers to battling depression. What if there was one simple way that could help you successfully navigate all of these? There is. Keeping a journal could change your life.
Read more "A journal could change your life"Sci-fi writers are better than other writers. Isaac Asimov was once accused of making this claim, which infuriated a great many writers.
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