http://www.gamestate.org/2009/01/raid-gaza-editorial-games-and-timeliness/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=raid-gaza-editorial-games-and-timeliness All games are serious games, but some games are more serious than others. Wed, 01 Jun 2011 12:08:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.gamestate.org/2009/01/raid-gaza-editorial-games-and-timeliness/#comment-4 Sherri Michaels Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:31:10 +0000 http://www.gamestate.org/?p=523#comment-4 Bravo! a very good review and critique of a critique!! Bravo! a very good review and critique of a critique!!

]]> http://www.gamestate.org/2009/01/raid-gaza-editorial-games-and-timeliness/#comment-3 Tetris and Torture » gamestate Fri, 20 Feb 2009 02:46:37 +0000 http://www.gamestate.org/?p=523#comment-3 [...] Raph Koster revisits his book on A Theory of Fun as he points to Loodo’s Calabouço Tétrico, a highly-polished, deeply disturbing Flash-based Tetris variant that replaces colored blocks with human beings in different states of distress.  Speaking of it on his website, Ian Bogost points back to his text, Persuasive Games (wherein he rejects as inferior those games whose mechanic is not “tightly coupled” to its narrative) (see also this post). [...] [...] Raph Koster revisits his book on A Theory of Fun as he points to Loodo’s Calabouço Tétrico, a highly-polished, deeply disturbing Flash-based Tetris variant that replaces colored blocks with human beings in different states of distress.  Speaking of it on his website, Ian Bogost points back to his text, Persuasive Games (wherein he rejects as inferior those games whose mechanic is not “tightly coupled” to its narrative) (see also this post). [...]

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