The Acagamic

I recently wrote a book chapter (PDF) for Mark Grimshaw's book Game Sound Technology and Player Interaction: Concepts and Developments published by IGI Global. Since the book is rather expensive,…

Whether you like the new buzz term or not. Gamification - that is the use of engaging playing principles applied to desktop and consumer applications, products, and services - is…

User Experience

Recently, my research was featured in an article by Harry Brignull for the UX community, entitled "UX for videogame design: Gameplay Research", where he describes succinctly what some of…

Panelists: Mike, Tad, Regan, Alessandro, Lennart. Read about day one.
Having survived day one of GDC Canada, filled with meeting great people and listening to excellent talks, the next day would…

In the sixties Marshall McLuhan already said that "the medium through which information is transmitted strongly influences how the information will be received by its audience". Even today some people…