Readin’ the Paper for the Puzzlers
UPDATE: Now published here, with hyperlinks to all the sources! Everybody knows now that eBay and Craigslist did a number on newspaper revenue. We’re told that newspaper producers were caught...
View ArticleNews Games Interview
Brian Diggelmann from Grady College at the University of Georgia interviewed me for a paper he’s writing on new media integration into news websites. He’s attempting to get Ian to do a similar...
View ArticleDocumentary Games & the Life and Death of the Saga Song
Originally written for Bogost’s News Games blog. In looking for proof-of-concepts for the success and creation of documentary and editorial games, I came across a historical movement in country music...
View ArticleBeyond Good and Evil and Photographic “Truth”
Simultaneously posted on Bogost’s News Games research blog. So go comment there, not here! It’s time for another post in which I show how a mainstream videogame manages to capture the spirit of a...
View ArticlePictures for Truth, an “advocacy game”
Simultaneously posted on Bogost’s News Games blog. Pictures for Truth is a newsgame funded by Amnesty International, produced using Microsoft’s XNA software development kit. You play an American...
View ArticleNewsgame, or Editorial Game?
Continuing the thread on editorial games from my history, part one. Published simultaneously for Bogost’s News Games blog. Author’s note: While I was finishing up this piece, Ian forwarded me an...
View ArticleDesert of the Real
Today we take a slight detour from our series on editorial games to celebrate an editorial machinima of exceptional quality, produced by everyone’s favorite editorial game creator: La Molleindustria’s...
View ArticleEnd of Life IF
End of Life is an interactive fiction about family life and decision-making. It started as an idea in Ian Bogost’s newsgame project studio. One of the branches of newsgames we have identified for our...
View ArticleAnnouncing: The Cartoonist
The Cartoonist, our winning entry in the 2010 Knight News Challenge, emerged from two research programs. For the past two years, my research group at the Georgia Institute of Technology has been...
View ArticleNewsgames: Journalism at Play Now Shipping
The book that I co-wrote with Ian and Bobby is now shipping from Amazon and MIT Press. I hope that the Kindle version will become available soon, because I know a few of you iPad users have renounced...
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