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  • Media Molecule – we make games. » Blog Archive » Introducing your new Community Managers!


    Spaff is now a Molecule, hurrah! Excited by what a community management team for Media Molecule might cook up…
    (tags: mediamolecule jamesspafford games communitymanagement friendship )
  • Gamasutra – Features – Persuasive Games: Familiarity, Habituation, and Catchiness
    "…let's end the era of Bushnell's Law, not because it's useless or base, but because it's wrong. It doesn't explain the phenomenon we have assumed it does. Or more precisely, let's excise the first half, and keep the rest: 'A game should reward the first play and the hundredth.' How? By culturing familiarity and constructing a habitual experience. By finding receptors for familiar mechanics and tuning them slightly differently, so as to make those receptors resonate in a new way, and then coupling those new resonances with meaningful ideas, practices, or experiences." A rather good – and certainly thought-provoking – Ian Bogost piece over at Gamasutra.
    (tags: games familiarity culture playability mastery ianbogost )
  • There Will Be No Animated Gifs In This Blog.: It's Not Like You Can Predict Memes, but…
    If you tilt N64 cartridges, amusing glitches happen. What you might not predict: loads of Japanese (real-world) videos pastiching "tilted" Goldeneye. This is bonkers.
    (tags: games n64 goldeneye memes tilting japan bonkers )

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