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The Impact Award at IndieCade 2012

Thank you to the amazing IndieCade jury for recognizing Reality Ends Here with the 2012 Impact Award. Continue reading

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New cards from Reality 2012

The second season of Reality Ends Here launched last week. In addition to numerous new play mechanics and tweaks, we’ve also created dozens of new game cards for players to use to generate creative prompts. Here are a few of … Continue reading

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Innovation Ecotones

An ecotone — literally, a place where ecologies are in tension — is a transitional area between different biomes, such as the boundary between grassland and forest or between different kinds of forests. Such places are sites for evolutionary dynamism, … Continue reading

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Video: Indiecade 2011 “No Screens” Panel

Featuring Mathieu Castelli, Nathalie Pozzi, Greg Trefry, Chris Weed, and me. Moderated by Colleen Macklin. This is a free-range session about games that go beyond the confines of the polygonal frame. In other words big games, street games, args, playful … 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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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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