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Zoya Street's Blog

I write on games, design and marketing strategies, with a particular interest in virtual worlds.
I work in the online and digital space, helping content creators to bring their work to life using the latest tools.
As an art technology consultant, I create new digital objects for artists and designers, harnessing the power of hacking to build engaging narrative experiences.
I manage web content, skilfully balancing search engine optimisation with coherent, engaging writing, top quality research and great images. I am editorial assistant at the blog GAMESbrief, and occasionally write on queer fashion at DapperQ.com.
My first degree was in Japanese studies at Trinity College, Cambridge University. I translate from Japanese-English and teach Japanese conversation for business.
I have recently graduated with an MA from London’s Royal College of Art/Victoria & Albert Museum. I carry out historical research into the production, consumption and design of video games in Japan in the 1990s.

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Unity is a CTO
Posted by Zoya Street on Fri, 26 Apr 2013 04:09:00 EDT in Production
I met Unity CEO David Helgason at GDC and spoke to him about Unity -- beyond Unity as a game engine, to Unity as an agent in the games development network. I learned that Unity has a great deal of responsibility on its shoulders.
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Taxonomising play
Posted by Zoya Street on Wed, 08 Aug 2012 09:01:00 EDT in Design, Serious
Taxonomies of games and play are fundamentally flawed. In this post I go through some existing typologies and show how they are useful for analysing a game like Skies of Arcadia, and why they fail to describe game play completely.
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The unique technological flatness of Skies of Arcadia
Posted by Zoya Street on Tue, 24 Jul 2012 08:01:00 EDT in Art, Console/PC
Technology in Skies of Arcadia is presented not as temporal advancement, but geographic determinism.
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Places where play becomes work
Posted by Zoya Street on Sun, 08 Jul 2012 10:38:00 EDT in
Theme parks and game worlds share in common the creation of a `place’ for entertainment purposes. A game world is often a `metaverse’ that contains a variety of barely connected styles and moments. How do you join together a fragmented world?
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