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Wil Shipley on John Carmack’s Code

Posted on 12/16/2013 by kunzelman

Carmack’s code at the time was kind of amazing. In the most complimentary way possible, I call Carmack a “coding insect.” Like how a bee knows how to build a hive, Carmack codes with a complete picture in his head … Continue reading →

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Memory Insufficient #8

Posted on 12/13/2013 by kunzelman

Memory Insufficient #8 is out. I’m being incredibly serious when I say that every time an issue of this zine comes out, I immediately open it and read through it in one sitting. There are very few places where such … Continue reading →

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An Ad for A Game Design School

Posted on 12/11/2013 by kunzelman

This was pushed to me via Facebook sponsored post in my stream. Posted without comment.

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Daniel Joseph on Grand Theft Auto V

Posted on 12/06/2013 by kunzelman

While the creators at Rockstar might not have intended it or really cared to think about it, the characters they created were logical extensions of a hellscape, a world surrounded on all sites by invisible walls, clockwork traffic patterns simultaneously … Continue reading →

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On Legendary

Posted on 12/05/2013 by kunzelman

1. Legendary is a first person shooter where you play as Deckard, a thief who looks a lot of Crispin Glover. In the opening of the game, Deckard breaks into a museum, touches Pandora’s Box (yes, that one), and unleashes some … Continue reading →

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Lyotard on the Avant-Garde

Posted on 12/04/2013 by kunzelman

Yet there is a kind of collusion between capital and the avant-garde. The force of scepticism and even of destruction that capitalism has brought into play, and that Marx never ceased analyzing and identifying, in some way encourages among artists … Continue reading →

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State of Decay – The First Two Deaths

Posted on 12/03/2013 by kunzelman

Marcus drove his car up to the abandoned church slowly. He was looking for a friend who needed help hunting a Feral. He had never seen a Feral before. There was something in the doorway of the church. Marcus didn’t … Continue reading →

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Call of Duty: Ghosts – A Hill

Posted on 11/29/2013 by kunzelman

In Call of Duty: Ghosts there is a multiplayer map called Prison Break, and I guess that there’s some reason that it is called that, though I can’t tell you what it might be. The top-down view doesn’t do the map justice, … Continue reading →

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McKenzie Wark on the Ludic Century

Posted on 11/27/2013 by kunzelman

The twenty-first century – the ludic century – is animated in part by just that fantasy: that the feedback loop can be closed, and action can be modified in realtime depending on data about its immediate effects. Of course in … Continue reading →

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The Fake Gamer t-shirt

Posted on 11/26/2013 by kunzelman

  There’s been an outbreak of a syndrome–fake gamers multiply by the day. They’ve never played A Link To The Past. They can’t hadouken. They don’t know what grue is; they don’t know to be afraid.  I’ve made a shirt to … Continue reading →

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