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Spring Break

I’ve been silent. I’m on break. Until I get back, you might consider checking out Upgrade Complete by Armor Games. While it claims to comment on the backward-ness of game achievements and grinding, it unwittingly makes for a rather interesting study. In Upgrade Complete, a sci-fi SCHMUP, players destroy alien ships for points which can be [ READ MORE ]

Presentation Slides

  • February 18th, 2010
  • Posted in News

“Slides” from my most recent presentation can be found here. I embedded videos of some of my work in it so this version is in a quicktime movie format (make sure to right click and save as). The movie is set to pause on slides, so simply press play again to advance. [ READ MORE ]

Hinges (Complete and on Kongregate)

  • February 13th, 2010
  • Posted in News

I’ve finished polishing my game Hinges and have released it on Kongregate! Enjoy! [ READ MORE ]

New Presentation Slides

Presentation Slides from my most recent run through are up. [ READ MORE ]

Study-a-Day : Update

Starting today, I’ll be doing an interactive study a day. (Click for full screen). They will be the visual and interactive expression of various thoughts and ideas I have while I digest reading material. In addition there will be a brief snip about mental hiccup(s) they come from. NOTE: There is a bug in Google Chrome [ READ MORE ]

The Thought In Form

“Interaction Design’s Early Formal Education & Beyond”, a recent article by David Malouf, touches on an issue almost central to my thesis; the education of designers, specifically designers of interaction. While I focus on the issues screen designers face when studying interactivity, he address views about interaction design that hold “…the belief in the separation between [ READ MORE ]

InterACTIVE -> InterACTION

  • January 11th, 2010
  • Posted in News

Ironically enough, after spending half a quarter in Studio 1 being schooled in the historically contingent definition of interactive design and arguing that it’s most pertinent quality (interaction with screens) is currently best situated within interaction design, a couple little birds have informed me that interactive program here at SCAD will be subsumed, in some way, [ READ MORE ]

In Progress Presentation

  • November 17th, 2009
  • Posted in News

A pdf of the slides from my end of quarter presentation can be found here. Sans direct references, I was trying to sum up a lot of things very quickly while keeping an abstract topic grounded and accessible. Sometimes McCullough quotes that help crystallize things for me aren’t so useful for others = / [ READ MORE ]

Games Ahead

  • November 4th, 2009
  • Posted in News

Seeing as how a tool-like interactive artifact that offers unique functionality (at an appropriate price) will be used regardless of the quality of the interaction with it, while a game without a satisfying interaction could very well be ditched in a heartbeat, it’s not a stretch to think that game design – a discipline focused [ READ MORE ]

Consolidating Graduate Work

  • September 16th, 2009
  • Posted in News

As a first step towards my review and thesis approval I’ve begun consolidating the work I’ve done here at SCAD since fall 2008. It can be accessed here. [ READ MORE ]