I recently picked up the Xbox Live Vision Gold Pack, which comes with a camera and a year’s subscription to Xbox Live Gold. I don’t play a whole lot of online games through the Xbox 360, but enough to make it worth my while, at least as professional research. My gamertag is mforbeck. If you’re interested and you’re on Xbox …
Adepticon
The fine folks at the Black Library have asked me to join them at Adepticon, a convention for Games Workshop fans. It’s held in Schaumburg, Illinois–just northwest of Chicago–from March 30—April 1. I’ll be there on Saturday, March 31, to sign books, shake hands, and have fun. Coincidentally, I should have my fourth Blood Bowl book polished off by then. …
A Fun Theory
I just finished reading A Theory of Fun for Game Design by Raph Koster. Despite being 256 pages long, it’s a short, easy read. Raph illustrates his ideas with single-drawing cartoons on nearly half the pages, and the layout does not fear whitespace. In short, Raph claims that creatures (including higher-order animals) are wired to play games as practice for …