It all started with Snow Crash . If I hadn’t read it and fallen in love with the idea of the Metaverse, if it hadn’t made me realize how close networked 3D was to being a reality, if I hadn’t thought I can do that , and more importantly I want to do that , I’d never have embarked on the path that…

NASA: As seen on #Cosmos: Our Gravity Probe B conducted an epic Space-Time Experiment. More: http://t.co/oRWyesRTND  http://t.co/qG1TrGsGff

By John Harris There have been few indie gamingsuccess stories as big as an ASCII freewaresimulation game in which the player helps to establish and govern acolony of dwarves, as they construct a Moria of their own. Thescope of the game defies belief: it contains an extensive worldgenerator, a…

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Andy Manoske’s answer to:Please explain as if you are talking to a 15 year old who is unfamiliar with the subject. How does cyber warfare threaten society? Who does it target? How much of it is government sponsored?115 Andy Manoske, PM: Product Security @ NetApp (‘09-‘11) What is cyber…

Anders Kaseorg’s answer to:e.g.,Some API written by some programmer that has some annoying bug.Some protocol or standard that would be incompatible with existing ones.Some feature or tool that is really cool but unscalable or unmaintainable.769 Anders Kaseorg, MIT 2008, Co-Founder of Ksplice, Inc.…

Anonymous’s answer to:Got a feeling they probably made some pretty cool things that we don’t give them enough credit for…189 Anonymous Ancient civilizations did their most impressive work with water. Hydraulic engineering is where the Egyptians, the Persians, the Greeks, the Romans and others…

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Introduction In this week's Extra Credits it was argued that we should treat the player of a video game as an artist and co-author of the game. One major point was that other media can be said to be valid without an audience, but not so for videogames. In video games a player is needed for the work…

The general advice for upstarting developers seem to be to focus on mechanics, building fast a prototype, getting the core game fun and and so. For instance CliffyB did so at GDC 2012 . This is not bad per se, but it is really not the only way to make games and usually, and this is the issue, result…

Logo, Bullshit & Co., Inc. Essay 05 September 2013 Everybody likes logos. Everybody wants their own logo. Everybody wants to make their own logo. Everybody has a computer and some fonts. Anybody can make a logo. What makes designers think they are so special? Anybody can make a logo. No doubt. It’s…

Last week we launched beta tests of two new strategy games at Skotos, Space Federation and Queen's Necklace . It thus feels somewhat appropriate to, today, be writing this final ancilliary article to my five-month long series on strategic games. To date I've largely talked about strategic games as…

For three weeks now I've been overviewing strategy games: looking at how they differ from RPGs; what types of components they have; and what types of gameplay they feature. However, as has always been the case, the purpose of this column is to bridge the old and the new--to see how lessons learned…

No joke. This is going be a bullet FAQ on starting a business. If you're a lawyer, feel free to disagree with me so you can charge someone your BS fees to give the same advice. If you can think of anything to add, please do so. I might be missing things. If you want to argue with me, feel free. I…