The Persistence of Printed Books
I guess not everybody shares in my enjoyment of the Kindle and the movement towards digital books. The New York Times reported that the sales of e-books has actually slipped in 2015 from the year...
Games
Cards in Computing Interfaces
We relegated skeuomorphism to yesterday’s design fashion. It’s a tool that was supposed to be largely unnecessary , now that users fully understand purely digital interfaces. The remaining use case for realistic analogies in...
Musical Rhythm Games are Motivational
I’ve enjoyed a lot of music games over the years. Before we had Guitar Hero and Rock Band in the US, there was already an established genre of rhythm games, largely made and played...
Review: Evo Moment 37
Fighting games are a pretty old-school genre. As far as I can tell, they became massively popular back in the dimly-lit arcades of the 90s, the ultimate culmination of one-on-one battles between players. It took...
The Comfort of an Simple, Enjoyable Routine
Every year, I go out and buy a copy of the latest NBA 2K video game. Every year, I start and finish a season of basketball with a team, usually going through the full 82-game season schedule, playing pretty much every game manually[1]. Despite the tweaks that the developers make to the controls and...
The Chronicles of E-Sports History
E-sports aren’t quite mainstream yet. Despite ESPN airing tournaments on one of its major channels (though not without controversy), virtual sports are very far removed in scope and mindshare compared to physical sports, most...