Intentionally Bad Interfaces
Most of the history of games has been an evolution from hard-to-use interfaces to better interfaces. This makes old games painful to play – I don’t mind that...
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Can Games Really be Separated into Core and Shell?
Frans Mäyrä’s An Introduction to Game Studies delivers what it promises. It’s probably the best introduction to game studies available.
Building the Yearbook of Finnish Game Studies
For the first six years the Yearbook of Finnish Game Studies was published as a PDF file, but few years ago I promised that we could publish it in three form...
Surveillance Capitalism, Google and the Power of Defaults
Surveillance capitalism is the idea that we have entered a new phase in how capitalism works.
The Most Complicated Way to Build a Site
Update: I’ve changed my setup. See below how & why.