Articles Tagged “august”
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IGDA Perspectives, User Experience
Greetings IGDA Members! Last month we held our Second Annual IGDA Summit in Seattle. The event was incredible and featured a keynote by Kim Swift, a discussion with Ouya CEO, Julie Uhrman and a cast of amazing talks and discussions that came right from the hearts and minds of our very own IGDA Membership. The [...]
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IndieSpective: Whose Game Is It, Anyway?
It’s easy to fall in love with your own design. Programmers are especially vulnerable to this particular vanity. If we coded it, then it must be awesome. I mean, who else could think that displaying “Error number 52” was a good, descriptive way to tell the user that a problem had just occurred? When it [...]
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Game Design Aspect of the Month: Gameful Design
The community blog, Game Design Aspect of the Month (http://gamedesignaspect.blogspot.com), also known as GDAM, is currently on hiatus. If you are interested in contributing to GDAM, please contact Sande Chen by e-mail, Sande@alum.MIT.edu. In this article, game designer Chelsea Howe explains the difference between gameful design and gamification and the impact on user experience. This [...]
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A Call to Arms for Decent Men
Ernest Adams has written a column called The Designer’s Notebook for the Gamasutra developers’ webzine ever since it was founded 14 years ago. For the first time, they declined to publish a column that he submitted, so he is making it available here. Contains strong language. A Call to Arms for Decent Men Normally I write [...]
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IGDA Perspectives, Censorship
August 2011 – IGDA Perspectives Newsletter – Table of Contents – Censorship Hello! Welcome to the August issue of the IGDA Perspectives Newsletter. Freedom Isn’t Free, Jeff Sloan Snow White vs. the Puritans: A Video Game Developer Takes on the Supreme Court, Daniel Greenberg Cultural Sensitivities and Game Censorship in International Markets, Candide Kirk Soldier [...]
