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I want to talk a little bit about why I love the combat in Assassin’s Creed 2 . In AC2, and to a lesser extent AC1, combat is almost entirely about expression . First and foremost, this is evident in the fact that combat is easy. It’s very hard, though not impossible, to die in ...

Jim Rivers, the Hiring Manager for Obsidian Entertainment (KoToR 2, NWN 2, Alpha Conspiracy ) gave a great talk at the Austin GDC Game Career Seminar about resumes, cover letters, and websites. It was specifically geared towards newly graduated students — some of his advice doesn’t ...

I gave a lecture yesterday at Worcester Polytechnic Institute , my alma mater. The class I spoke to was IMGD 2001, Philosophy and Ethics of Computer Games. A little bit of background on that: during my senior year in college, WPI was still putting together its undergraduate video game ...

I f you’re seeing this, I have migrated this blog both to Wordpress as a platform and to my own domain. I never really knew what to do with tinysubversions.com, and the blogspot page was always my real home on the internet. I’m happy to say that everything has moved over nicely. I ...

Folks, I'm attempting a migration of this blog. Stand by!

Hey folks, I need a favor. I'm compiling a list of schools that use my articles as reference material. It's useful for me to know. For example, I might use it to reach out to schools if I'm in the area to see if they'd like me to drop by and give a talk. So if you are an educator who uses my ...