The Indie MEGABOOTH at PAX East 2013.

For all the hand-wringing about the indie games bubble, concerns of an over-saturated marketplace, and fears that soon it will be impossible to make any kind of headway as an indie developer, the path forward has already been charted. It …

Together We Are Mega: The Collaborative Future of Indie Game Development Read more »

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It’s the sci-fi writers’ fault, you know. After tantalizing us with glimpses of a glorious future replete with personal datapads (check), instantaneous communication (check) and a worldwide repository of the sum total of all human knowledge (check), we’ve still yet …

Is This Thing On: Creating Musical Conversation with SoundSelf Read more »

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Gamification badges: Innocent fun, or devious distraction?

“And what will that world be like? Well, I think it’ll be like this: You’ll get up in the morning to brush your teeth, and the toothbrush can sense that you’re brushing your teeth, and so, hey, good job for …

Monsters in the Sky: Facing Jesse Schell’s Nightmare of Over-Gamification Read more »

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