Hello! I'm a scholar from sunny Famagusta in Cyprus who spends most of his time reading, thinking and writing about games. I'm a founding member of the IGDA Game Design SIG and a co-editor at Game Design Aspect of the Month (GDAM), a collaborative blog on game design which we run together with Sande Chen and Ryon Levitt. When I'm not busy teaching or pondering about games, I continue writing my dissertation which is on interaction and narrativity in video games. I like being on Gamasutra because it makes me feel connected to people who care about games as much as I do. Links: http://altugi.wordpress.com -- my blog on games http://gdsig.wordpress.com -- Blog of the IGDA GDSIG steering committee http://gamedesignaspect.blogspot.com -- Game Design Aspect of the Month http://kafaayari.wordpress.com -- a clog on games (in turkish)
Non-winnability is often interpreted as open-endedness, and also being brought up as part of arguments that claim that games aren't stories. In this article I will discuss why these views are flawed.
Hey : Good that I could make it a bit clearer, that's nice to hear. And also thanks a lot for your very kind words, i am very happy to hear this. Great encouragment really, and also very kind to let me know about it, good motivation for me to ...
Unpredictability versus Decisions Pipeline: I like games like The Sims or X-Com: Apocalypse, in which I have to review and change previous commands due to the game system creating situations that I could not predict. Extra-Life sounds: From Centipede to Zuma, I just love to hear the sound of earning ...
I think where Malaby and Wittgenstein meet is their shared notion on adapting to a particular attitude that is recognized as play based on the cues that ask us to operate in a playful manner . Basically the unsolved problem to this is how an act of communication cues our ...
