Finnish Games Then and Now, Nordic DiGRA Warmup
Arrived in Tampere around five. The Nordic DiGRA Conference starts tomorrow. This evening it was time for the Finnish Games Then and Now Exhibition produced by Annakaisa Kultima (@aakoo) and Kati...
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View ArticleNordic DiGRA, short recap (#ndigra12)
There’s been a couple of reali interesting presentations during these two days at Nordic DiGRA. Linderoth and Björk on Boundary Maintaining Mechanisms, Waern on framing games, Stenros on defending the...
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About once a week I auto-publish a list of my recent web activity. It’s a list of blog posts and webpages, tweets and images. This is a list to inspire you, as well as a reminder for the future me....
View ArticlePassing On, one week of game design
I just realized I never wrote anything on my game design during the summer. I went to the TOTEM Summer School together with 16 game designers and programmers. For one week we designed and programmed...
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About once a week I auto-publish a list of my recent web activity. It’s a list of blog posts and webpages, tweets and images. This is a list to inspire you, as well as a reminder for the future me....
View ArticleNow this is new…
The toy stores here in Sweden take a big step in their visual representation of gender in this years X-mas catalogs. I’m not saying this is perfect, but I am saying BR is taking a big step in the right...
View ArticleHappy Birthday Pong!
Avoid missing ball for high score. That’s the full text version of the original instructions for PONG, and today is it’s 40th birthday!* In 1972 Allan Alcorn developed pong for Atari. After many...
View ArticleTerrorism, Games, and Racist Remarks
Some time ago the Swedish blog Spelfunderingar wrote a comment on the racism of blaiming violence on videogames. I read it then and wanted to comment on it, but never got around to it until now. The...
View ArticleCodename Heroes at EIT ICT Labs
I am planned to give a lunch talk for students and partners in EIT ICT Labs in Kista, talking about the game Codename Heroes that we are developing. The plan need to change a bit though, as I suddenly...
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About once a week I auto-publish a list of my recent web activity. It’s a list of blog posts and webpages, tweets and images. This is a list to inspire you, as well as a reminder for the future me....
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Recent tweets and images from me, and appreciated blog posts from others. Links: Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe | Math with Bad Drawings When Did Girls Start Wearing Pink? | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian...
View ArticleMagicians and Medieval times
Back from a working holiday at Medeltidsveckan (the medieval week) in Visby, Gotland. Usually go there, partly to meet friends but also to perform and to watch others perform. Last year some of my...
View ArticleLicentiate sent to the printers
So, seems like my PhD-Studies are actually going forward. yesterday I sent my Licentiate thesis (Swedish ‘half-way-thesis’, but with a full defense and actual degree connected to it) to the printers. I...
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Designing Activity and Creating Experience
My life is revolving around my licentiate thesis right now, and it finally came back from the printers! For you who are not in the Swedish system, we have quit a long Ph.D.-program, usually running for...
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Thesis presented, firstlook in the rear view mirror!
Last week I defended my Licentiate thesis (or ”half-doctor” thesis, to explain even outside of Sweden). It is available here if you are interested in reading. If not I´will try to talk a bit more about...
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Global Game Jam Stockholm: Recap
We organized the Stockholm event of the Global Game Jam this weekend. The main organizers were me and Inger Ekman from Spelverkstaden, with lots of help from a bunch of people! 48 hours of intensive...
View ArticleClaim tokens, a somewhat clumsy system
I am trying to register my blog at Technorati, since they have changes parts of their system. Now they want me to register a claim token (in my case K8JVA35BJVGS ) by writing it in a blog-post as I do...
View ArticleReview: Designerly Ways of Knowing: Design Discipline Versus Design Science[1]
“The natural sciences are concerned with how things are…design on the other hand is concerned with how things ought to be.” – Simon [2] According to Wikipedia, Nigel Cross “is a British academic, a...
View ArticleThe late summer, a short recap.
Maybe I should have mentioned before it happend that I was speaking at Kulturfestivalen (Stockholm Culture Festival), but this last month I had no time for the internet. Actually had vacation, you...
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