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6+ hours of game design/development lectures from Stanford

Aligning Game Design with Science 

The History of (Video) Games 

Intelligent Narratives: the Stories We Tell Ourselves through Digital Media 

Learning Math Through Play 

Biotic Games-Playing with Living Cells 

Playing with Videogames. Superplayers, Glitch-Hunters and Codeminers 

Play Design: SimCity, Simulation, and Geology 

Games Move Us - An Exploration of Design Innovations that Lead to Player Emotions 

Expanding Games

Bonus: 

Jane McGonigal’s Ted Talk on Gaming 

The Future of Programming

Inventing on Principle

Media for Thinking the Unthinkable

The Humane Representation of Thought

Seeing Spaces

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Daily Sketch 12.14.15

#art #sketch #drawing #일러스트 #スケッチ #esboço #bosquejo #Skizze #эскиз

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Islands by Yvan Duque.

Artists on tumblr

Lustik:  twitter | pinterest | etsy

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@harvestlocks @anicapitani Look guys also ani lets restart our au

oh man but what if there was the same culture about magic as with other things in acidemia. Like there was this old fashioned way of doing potions and casting spells and creating charms and then a street way that might be more edgy and experimental. Like people programming spells and shit into their phones is frowned upon and new spells are considered fake and not real because they were not in the older academic books and a street level alchemy would produce dangerous new things but also kickass new potions and charms to help people but the government would not take them seriously 

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Deep in the forests of Central Java, towering above the surrounding trees, lies an abandoned, crumbling church in the shape of a giant chicken with its beak open mid-squawk. Locals have dubbed it the “chicken church.” 🐔 [video of the church]

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@harvestlocks @lewdcookie

i have robot feels

So I miiiiight have been researching Sony Aibos because some kind of aibo/aibo plush with AR glasses miiight be a thing I need in my life (and thanks so much for that weird compulsion, @snarp, @codedredalert).   And I came across this fascinating article about people in Japan trying to care for their robot pets now that Sony has stopped offering support for them.  The owners have meet ups where they help each other with programming and repairr advice.  Failing joints are a big problem.  A repair person in Chiba, that started taking on cases after desperate please from owners “has begun collecting broken Aibos from owners who have died, in the hope that their remains can be used to help keep other robots running.” And I think this is just such a fascinating inversion of the more typical ‘immortal robot’/‘transient humans’ stories.  It really makes me want to see more of this stuff in fics:

Pet/companion robots that are no longer supported by their manufacturers and their human friends’ frantic efforts to keep them mobile and functioning.

Human-robot communities that evolve around group-sourcing parts and repairs and work-arounds and strategies for improving quality-of-life for non-supported robots.

Robots that are chimeras of the functioning parts of several failing robots, and have to navigate their new meshed identities and now tangled interpersonal relationships.

Robots that get their programming jury-rigged into newer systems they weren’t really designed for and have to deal with glitches and malfunctions and dysphoria.  Robots that still don’t have official technical support from manufacturers because they’re unapproved modifications.  

Robots struggling with whether they should they let parts of themselves be re-written to better fit their new bodies.

Lines of robots that suddenly have finite lifespans because a necessary part can’t be made or replaced anymore

or: Robots that suddenly have finite populations, because new robots can only be made by taking that limited part from old robots, and now they have to decide whether they want to be static immortals or turn over through new and better generations like biological beings.  

Robot cultures that mix both approaches.  

Robot cultures that are furiously divided on the topic.

Robots robots robots

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Imagine you were to get married at the age made up of the two last digits on your phone number. How old would you be?

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Destruction apprentice setting a lightning rune trap.

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the world of thedas

f a s h i o n

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Senait Gidey L'Officiel Singapore Dec 201

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ティナ by Muju

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NOAH Project   Ark Citizen - defense corps “Geros & Chloe” soonsang works 20151208

“게로스&클로이”

Artstation - https://www.artstation.com/artist/soonsanghong54 facebook   - https://www.facebook.com/soonsang.hong.54

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