Gaming the System is an article from Rands describing the relationship between geeks and their games. It’s also why we love games — they’re just dolled up systems — and the more you understand this fascination with games, the better you’ll be at managing us. In a nutshell, geeks love to figure out how things work, improve anything they can and be the best at what they’re doing.
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Geeks and games
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December 14 2009, 2:20pm | Comments »
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Mario couldn’t jump
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Satoru Iwata discusses the Mario brothers with Shigeru Miyamoto. The interview is quite revealing — many of Mario’s trademark characteristics were due to design and programming restraints at the time, including the moustache, the hat and the overalls.
December 6 2009, 7:33pm | Comments »
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Tetris on the brain
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Is Tetris good for the brain? The girls who practiced showed greater brain efficiency, consistent with earlier studies. Compared to controls, the girls that practiced also had a thicker cortex, but not in the same brain areas where efficiency occurred. I think it’s time to dust-off my old Game Boy and increase the girth of my cortex.
September 1 2009, 8:08am | Comments »
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8-bit trip
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An awesome stop-motion Lego homage to 8-bit video games. It took more than fifteen hundred hours of moving bricks around and photographing them.
August 24 2009, 3:19pm | Comments »
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Control
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Periodic table of controllers. An interesting infographic of video game controllers, would be bit cooler if it mimicked the structure of the periodic table a bit better.
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July 3 2009, 12:32pm | Comments »
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Spore API
http://www.spore.com/comm/developer
March 13 2009, 8:31am | Comments »
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