Becker Video Game Design

Article explains the influence of the Nintendo series

"blocks that players can move around and touch to one another to solve puzzles or create patterns"

Novel, a virtual world that simulates the job search process; job seekers can determine a good workplace environment through exploring virtual alternatives

Interest in emulators for playing old games and the processing power required

"You have access to the content as long as you are a subscriber but when you are no longer a member, the content then disappears." beta in October, launch around end of 2011

over 30 hours "attempt to create an entire game from scratch"

Research shows that violent video games increase aggressive behavior and decrease prosocial behavior, but could relaxing video games have the opposite effects? In two experiments, participants were randomly assigned to play a relaxing, neutral, or prosocial video game for 20 min.

A 10-year old tinkering with the device's clock exposed security holes

Lessons for business from video game design, emphasis on attention to progress, big and small

on the difficulties of playing games on the PC, design flaws or ignorance of how players actually use the platform?

game review

A discussion with Drew Davidson, author of Well Played, on "the participatory future of content creation" and game design will be archived here.

"a Journal on Video Games, Value and Meaning"

"this book is full of in-depth close readings of video games that parse out the various meanings to be found in the experience of playing a game. Contributors analyze sequences in a game in detail in order to illustrate and interpret how the various components of a game can come together to create fulfilling a playing experience unique to this medium. "

A project run by the National Library of Finland and Microtask crowdsources error correction by encouraging visitors to play online games via Facebook

"a pay-what-you-want [game] sale that lets consumers decide how much money to give to developers and how much to donate to charities"

story of a game developing in the 1990s and the difficulty of getting a legal copy or the source code today