Wired has a great interview with Alex Rigopulos, the CEO of Harmonix, probably my favorite game studio at current (since I’m a huge fan of all things rhythm game related). Aside from all of the interesting discussions on downloadable content and marketing niche games, the small snippet on motivation caught my eye:

My feeling is [...]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to those who celebrate.
May your days be full of chear and your stockings be full of games.
Oh, and be thankful you’re not spending Christmas on Chiron Beta Prime

I’ve moved both Jeff On Games and FuzzyBinary to new servers, as well as upgraded Wordpress for both this blog and the ScholarBlog.  If you’re seeing this, it means the server transfer and upgrade went swimmingly.

There may not be a Game Design Challenge today (that was quick eh?) mostly in reverence of Mother’s Day. I spend about 9 hours on the road this weekend and a bunch of time with my family, so there was little time to think of a game design challenge for you all.
That said, I [...]

So Raph was true to his word and added me to his blogroll as well as mentioned me in the main body of one of his posts. Now I’m actually going to have to watch my bandwidth and make sure I don’t go over. Hopefully I’ll be alright. Anyway, wanted to quickly apologize to Raph [...]

Today was a pretty interesting day at GDC, enough so that I felt it deserved a blog post. I’ve actually got a 4 part post in the works concerning story in games, but I won’t start posting it until after GDC (if I ever finish it. At least I know the first part will get [...]

I’ve just added Spam Karma 2 in order to prevent the spam I’ve been getting since removing the captcha plugin.  If you have any problems posting, please let me know and I’ll start adjusting the settings a bit.

I will be upgrading wordpress today. Expect some down time until I work out all the kinks.

It’s apology time!
Darius in the past and Craig more recently have commented about my lack of posts; that I should “by more bloggy” to use Darius’s words. There are a few reasons I haven’t been more bloggy, and I’d like to illuminate them for you.
First, I’ve been extremely busy. Crunch will do that [...]

I’ve been re-reading a book I read for my thesis, If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino, and I’ve found some of the passages that never made it into the thesis, but heavily influenced my current assertion that when playing a game, you are not playing yourself, but a character based in [...]