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If you’ve read the rules to more than 3 board games, you’ve probably read a rule phrased like so: “You may not [take some action]“. Why do such rules exist? The most common reason is, during play-testing, the designer discovered players want to take an action that would hurt the experience – for example, a too-powerful action every player … Continue reading Ban the ban: essential game design advice (with examples) →

Behance Blog | Don’t fall into the trap of being an expert before you’re ready. We have enough of those.\n\n

I’ve written some in the past about how the predominant suburban design in the US is among the worst features of life here—viewed from the perspective of a European immigrant like me, at any rate. Far from posing a mere logistical or aesthetic problem, it shapes–or perhaps more accurately, it circumscribes–our experience of life and our social relationships in...

Science has never been more powerful, but it is under attack.

An online community known as “targeted individuals” says its members are being surveilled by groups of stalkers as part of a sprawling conspiracy. But psychiatrists beg to differ.

Slack, maker of extremely expensive professional chatrooms, is annexing online work culture at a stunning rate. The industry narrative doesn’t quite cover …

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Answer (1 of 43): It’s a big problem. Not only VR has a difficult quest to adopt into the people’s routines, it will turn away first time viewers of VR, if they experience and connect nausea or sickness with VR. It’s hard to make yourself go back in there and play/watch a VR content because your ...

Make Something. Don’t Just Talk About It.

Time to take a close look at one of gaming’s classic elements: the explosion. Using completely subjective facts and examples from their post-apocalyptic rogue-like-like Nuclear Throne, Vlambeer’s Jan Willem Nijman will discuss all the tiny details that go into making explosions feel great.

Killing the web to save it.

Where does technology exploit our minds’ weaknesses?

RT @IQuantNY: So Impressed w/ @nypdnews fast reaction to my OpenData findings. Best response I have ever seen from an agency.

For years Donald Heathfield, Tracey Foley and their two children lived the American dream. Then an FBI raid revealed the truth: they were agents of Putin’s Russia. Their sons tell their story

One of the most over looked parts of a character's body when animated are the hands. Our "phalanges" can convey just as m...

Without us noticing, we are entering the postcapitalist era. At the heart of further change to come is information technology, new ways of working and the sharing economy. The old ways will take a long while to disappear, but it’s time to be utopian

Everyone wants some place to retreat, to collapse, to be at home—but you can’t always go home again.

Pryaniki are a popular Russian cookie, often served with tea. These honey spice cookies have vanilla, nutmeg, allspice and anise flavors, as well as the unique addition of coffee.