Year: 2009

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QWERTY: Video Games are an Embarrassment

Disclaimer: QWERTY's opinions are not mine nor the site's. The psudonym QWERTY is used to protect the innocent. (I realized if you had no idea what he was talking about you would find this even more vulgar than it was meant to be. I told him this and I was told to mind my own business you fascist dictator. - Eric Swain) It used to be that we were embarrassed about a video game because of how it was perceived. We holed up and rode along the serf as we defended our turf with nerf. | more

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Three Appearances on the CDC Podcast

I wasted far too much time trying to figure it out or putting it off feeling something would come to me. Well here they are. The show notes pages of the three podcast. They have instructions on how to get it. If you can please rate it on iTunes and become a regular listener if you like intelligent people discussing games intelligently. Episode 1 Episode 2 - Descent into Dissonance Episode 3 - Showing, Telling, Performing Narrative Don't forget those are only the episodes I appear on, there is another great episode afterwords. | more

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QWERTY: Run Like Hell

Disclaimer: QWERTY's opinions are not mine nor the site's. The psudonym QWERTY is used to protect the innocent. (I have  no comment. - Eric Swain) What the hell are you doing just sitting there? Did you not read the title? Do you not comprehend what is going on all around you? While some may understand, not enough of you do. Zombie apocalypse has got nothing on what's coming. And Microsoft its all your fault. You brought this upon is. Milo, what does that stand for? Microsoft's Inclination to Launch Overlords. | more

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May’s ’09 Round Table Entry – The Great Wave off Kanagawa

A Game Is Worth a Thousand Words: What would one of your favorite pieces of non-interactive art look like if it had been created as a game first? May's topic challenges you to imagine that the artist had been a game designer and supersede the source artwork-whether it be a painting, a sculpture, an installation, or any other piece that can be appreciated in a primarily visual way-to imagine a game that might have tried to communicate the same themes, the same message, to its audience. | more

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QWERTY: My E3 2009 Predictions

E3 is back to its old extravaganza self, which means everyone else over the next week on the net will start crapping themselves over all the awesomeness. The starry-eyed masses will flitter around claiming how everything will remake the way we play games. In fact you know there is going to be so much awesomeness there, because a great majority of the announcements have already been revealed, leaked, etc. That means there has to be even greater awesomeness for the show. | more

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April’s ’09 Round Table Entry – Torture

Taking Games Seriously, Making Game Seriously: This month's Round Table challenges you to design a game that deals with a social issue that personally troubles you. The recent months have seen controversy sweep through the video game industry. Whether people are objecting to the use of imagery widely considered to evoke racial stereotypes, or to the gameplay based on violent sexual crimes, or to the fact that anyone would complain about either topic-the discussion has been fierce. | more

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QWERTY: Why I Don’t Pay Him

(Last week he decided a moment of silence was in order for the fallen and the stolen. I think he was just being lazy. – Eric Swain)   Disclaimer: QWERTY's opinions are not mine nor the site's. The psudonym QWERTY is used to protect the innocent. Let us all have a moment of silence for the stolen. … … …  …  … Thank you.I have been thinking. Last generation we had the na na na na na na na of Katamari Damaci to drive us all batty as it continued round and round in our heads. | more