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Syllabus: Atari Hacks, Remakes, and Demakes

By Garrison | Published: January 13, 2010
Now here is a class from which we could all learn something. Atari Hacks, Remakes, and Demakes: Spe­cial Top­ics in Game Design and Analy­sis, Spring 2010. Geor­gia Insti­tute of Technology. Hacks are works pro­duced by mak­ing mod­i­fi­ca­tions to exist­ing games by dis­as­sem­bling bina­ries, ana­lyz­ing the mean­ing and pur­pose of the result­ing source code, iden­ti­fy­ing desir­able [...]
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On The Turtlenecked Hairshirt

By Garrison | Published: January 10, 2010
Pro­fes­sor Bogost, at the Geor­gia Insti­tute of Tech­nol­ogy, con­tin­ues to be one of my favorite con­tem­po­rary thinkers on mat­ters dig­i­tal. Fol­low­ing close on the end of MLA 09, he has weighed in on recent rumi­na­tions about the direc­tion of the human­i­ties with a brief, sim­mer­ing note. He writes: Human­ists work hard, but at all [...]
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Tetris and Torture

By Garrison | Published: February 19, 2009
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 [...]
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On Newsgames’ Newsworthiness

By Garrison | Published: January 8, 2009
In a recent post over at the Geor­gia Tech Jour­nal­ism & Games Project (Raid Gaza! Edi­to­r­ial Games and Time­li­ness), the inde­fati­ga­ble Ian Bogost holds up a recent edi­to­r­ial game, Raid Gaza!, as exem­plary of the kind of crit­i­cal work games (“news­games”) can do for journalism. Like edi­to­r­ial games should, [Raid Gaza] takes a strong posi­tion. But [...]
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Be All You Can Be (For A Quarter, To Start)

By Garrison | Published: January 5, 2009
Today’s New York Times fea­tures a brief arti­cle on video games and U.S. Army recruit­ing efforts in a Philadel­phia mall. The facil­ity, which opened in August, is the first of its kind. It replaces five smaller recruit­ment sta­tions in the Philadel­phia area, at about the same annual oper­at­ing cost, not count­ing the ini­tial expenses, said Maj. Larry [...]
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