Category: thoughts

• you know you want to

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  February 8, 2012

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  iPad, music, review, thoughts, TV

  First watch this fantastic Battlestar Gallactica fan vid. Now you know how I feel about Ashes to Ashes. In a world where watching a new Doctor Who episode is a rare and wonderful thing in itself, it is nice to stumble across a series that captivates and seizes your attention so fully that it invades…

• November issue of Convergence

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  November 15, 2011

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  games, publication, research, thoughts

  Very happy to be a part of the awesome November special edition of Convergence (the International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies). Saw the announcement from Jason_a_w this morning (shame it is behind the the usual academic journal paywall): ” The edition was edited by Chris Chesher (UNSW), Larissa Hjorth (RMIT), Ingrid Richardson (Murdoch)…

• a problem solved?

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  November 15, 2011

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  iPad, learning, review, thoughts

  After my complaints earlier in the week about WordPress, I took a look around the app store for a better blogging tool and found Blogger+. So far so good, it let me add both wordpress and blogger blogs effortlessly. No bugs or issues and it also lets me save drafts and mange images nicely. It…

• Social Media Neophyte

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  November 14, 2011

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  notes, research, thoughts

  It is quite easy to confuse an interest with a proficiency: the tone deaf musicologist; the lousy home cook chef; and perhaps the perpetual ‘noob’ gamer, are cases where an interest is not necessarily accompanied with a raw ability or talent, but it doesn’t preclude the development of certain types of expertise in the interest.…

• A draft here and there

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  November 9, 2011

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  Blog, thoughts

  Since the last post on this blog, I’ve been thinking about heading back to Blogger. I’ve grown increasingly frustrated with WordPress and its inability to load on any browser on my home PC. To be fair, it is not just WordPress, Tumblr also refuses to load at home, so I am not exactly sure what…

• Notes to follow

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  October 6, 2011

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  Blog, games, industry, learning, notes, thoughts

• Digital Humanities

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  September 4, 2011

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  games, industry, research, review, thoughts

  I have been watching some of the HUMlab seminars and reading about the Digital Humanities and the work of Dr Patrik Svensson. From what I have read so far, Dr Svensson (2010) contributes to the conceptual mapping of the Digital Humanities (especially the shift of the Computing Humanities). He recognises Professor McPherson’s (2008,) typology of…

• Independent game design in the Australian industry

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  August 18, 2011

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  Blog, events, games, industry, research, thoughts

  Freeplay is an Independent Games Festival this weekend in Melbourne. The festival includes a free arcade and expo in the Experimedia room of the State Library of Victoria. The conference program over the weekend at the Library’s conference centre has two stream of speakers, from whom I am hoping to find out more about the…

• the closer you look the less you see

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  August 13, 2011

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  thoughts

• Gamification – Round Two

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  August 13, 2011

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  education, games, industry, MMO, research, teaching, thoughts

  The two results from my interviews with Australian games developers that have surprised me the most, are the negatives responses to the suggestion that there is a need for more women to be working in the local industry (but more on that in a later post) and gamificiation. Long before I’d heard the term and…