Character concepting is always a fun exercise - whether your character is serious, silly, or something in between, bringing a new character to life is a thought-provoking endeavor with lots of little details to consider...
Situational choices encourage the player to look at their choice as a piece of a larger context - in other words, a good choice is more than the literal options in front of the player, but one that asks the player to account for the shifting variables around those options...
I’ve just finished reading Tom Bissel’s Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter, in which Bissel simultaneously lauds games for their benefits and foils them in a following sentence...
Summer is finally here and we’re all ready for a bit of R&R, and for those of us who are media-inclined (read: everyone at Filament) it can be tough to decide what to play, or read, or watch in our spare time...
I’ve already talked about my Scratch presentation at Spring Harbor Middle School where I covered the basics of introducing this visual coding language to students, but today I thought I’d focus on the interactions that and I had as we introduced Scratch to the Sennett Gaming Club...
We draw on quite a few paradigms of thought when we develop games, and fortunately for us there is no shortage of taxonomies and frameworks to be found in the realm of education...
