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Sweden is associated with many things: cheap but comfortable furniture, very attractive females, the Nobel prize, Battlefield, file-sharing, cold winters, strict alcohol policies, snus, meatballs, the list is long. Two brothers from Göteborg have now created one of the hottest ajax webapps for the season: Wishlistr. It is basically a tool allowing you to create [...]

People often come to me asking if I know any good books or sources to give a beginner a good little overview of the jobs out there in the games industry. While I know many books on many specialties, most of which feature a decent overview of the game industry jobs and application areas, the [...]

The DiGRA proceedings from this year’s conference Situated Play are now online at the official DiGRA site. My favorite picks of the papers there are currently:

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After receiving a travel budget from my University for the first time, I came to sit down and have a look at potentially interesting conferences for the young game academics among us. Now, with so many different focus areas within games your planning might differ. Nevertheless, I though it would be nice to share some [...]