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Author Archives: kunzelman
Robert Yang on Ludonarrative Dissonance
I have several interesting posts (to me) that I want to write this week, but I came home from Gameloop 2013 (which I will write about at some later period) with a serious case of airplane flu. Hopefully this isn’t … Continue reading
Ann Hirsch’s “Scandalishious”
This is the first thirty minutes of Ann Hirsch performance. She lived the life of a youtube “camwhore” (her words) for a significant amount of time, and I think this is the culmination of that work as a performance for … Continue reading
Posted in General Features
Tagged ann hirsch, art, performance
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Pettman on Marder’s Plant-Thinking
This is one of the central claims of Plant-Thinking, and yet I had difficulty squaring it with my own (admittedly inexpert) knowledge of “actual” plants. No doubt vegetal life is in many ways “unity in flux.” But does that mean it … Continue reading
In Watermelon Sugar and Game Design
I’ve been trying to figure out how to write this post for a while. Several weeks ago I tweeted that everyone who makes games should read Richard Brautigan’s In Watermelon Sugar. Sam Crisp read it and flat-out asked me why I … Continue reading
Sway Talks About Riff Raff
If you’re up on your Critical Riff Raff Studies, you know that there is a now-infamous interview where a Hot 97 producer took Riff to task about embodying hip hop stereotypes as a white man. I wrote a bit about … Continue reading
Parisi on Incomputable Algorithms
Incomputable algorithms are not exceptional probabilities, marking, for instance, the moment at which programming breaks down. On the contrary, incomputable probabilities are known probabilities that point toward a new conception of rule. The latter is exposed to a certain indeterminate … Continue reading
Posted in Quote Time, Theory
Tagged contagious architecture, luciana parisia, nonhumans, theory
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Released: Laika
For some reason I believed that I had made a post about this already, but apparently I haven’t. A few weeks ago, deep in the development of Way Too Scary Game, I took an afternoon to make a Laika. It comes … Continue reading
Posted in A Game I Made, Video Games
Tagged design, ethics, laika, video games
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A Still From Every Audience Reaction Shot In Paola Antonelli’s TEDSalon NY2013 Talk “Why I Brought Pac-Man To MoMA”
Posted in Theory, Video Games
Tagged art, TEDtalk, video games
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Three Stills From The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
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Tagged nonhumans, the fast and the furious, tokyo drift
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this cage is worms 