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Jeff Watson is an artist, designer, and Assistant Professor of Interactive Media and Games at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts.
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"I think the idea of a star developer having his or her name on the box is just subscribing to the…"
“I think the idea of a star developer having his or her name on the box is just subscribing to the same floundering cultural models that the Platform Holders and Publishers have necessarily bought into and staked their futures on. … Continue reading
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"Pictures Under Glass is an interaction paradigm of permanent numbness. It’s a Novocaine drip…"
“Pictures Under Glass is an interaction paradigm of permanent numbness. It’s a Novocaine drip to the wrist. It denies our hands what they do best. And yet, it’s the star player in every Vision Of The Future.” – Bret Victor … Continue reading
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"The ink was hardly dry on the Citizens United decision when the Chamber of Commerce organized a…"
“The ink was hardly dry on the Citizens United decision when the Chamber of Commerce organized a covertly funded front and rained cash into the 2010 campaigns. According to the Sunlight Foundation, corporate front groups spent $126 million in the fall … Continue reading
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Tagged bill moyers, elections, occupy, usa, wall street
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The secret #scareality experience at #diydays
Thanks to Lance Weiler and the rest of the DIY Days crew for helping us run a “bite-sized” version of Reality Ends Here/SCA Reality at this year’s conference. The game as we ran it was very lightweight. We kicked things … Continue reading
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Tagged conferences, diy days, lance weiler, los angeles, reality ends here
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"In mid-April 2011, the media reported that Chinese government has prohibited showing on TV and in…"
“In mid-April 2011, the media reported that Chinese government has prohibited showing on TV and in theatres films which deal with time travel and alternate history, with the argument that such stories introduce frivolity into serious historical matters—even the fictional … Continue reading
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"Engineers are far more important than managers at Apple — and designers are at the top of the…"
“Engineers are far more important than managers at Apple — and designers are at the top of the hierarchy. Even when you look at software, the best designers like Bill Atkinson, Andy Hertzfeld, Steve Capps, were called software designers, not … Continue reading
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"Though numbers are, in many regards, decisive, they are not everything. Which is to suggest that…"
“Though numbers are, in many regards, decisive, they are not everything. Which is to suggest that there is another way we might interpret the Occupationists’ deferral of content and the emphasis on process. We might hope that this indicates a … Continue reading
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Henry Jenkins interviews me about Reality Ends Here
Special thanks to Henry Jenkins for conducting a wide-ranging two-part interview with Simon Wiscombe, Tracy Fullerton, and me about my dissertation project, Reality Ends Here (A.K.A. SCA Reality, “The Game”, etc): All of this cloak and dagger stuff was part … Continue reading
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Tagged arg, dissertation, reality ends here, sca, simon wiscombe, tracy fullerton, transmedia, usc
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Reality@IndieCade
Special thanks to the IndieCade organizers for asking us to appear at this year’s festival, and to all the players from the “real” game who showed up and helped make Deals with the general public.
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"I am not naive and I am not a fool. I realize that gamification is the easy answer for deploying a…"
“I am not naive and I am not a fool. I realize that gamification is the easy answer for deploying a perversion of games as a mod marketing miracle. I realize that using games earnestly would mean changing the very … Continue reading
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