Play’s Republic

Following up on my betalicious post and with an effort to stick to the title of the course, here’s another Halo 3 article, this time about where the game is in development. There are some nice descriptions of the work involved and it sounds like the developers are weathering crunch mode better than I […]

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Toward the beginning of the semester, we often discussed the differences between the Heraclitean and Platonic perspectives toward power, play and being. According to Heraclitus, from the agon, characterized by conflict, strife and unpredictability, grew the playful chaos of the Universe. “History unfolds at the whim of a child, carelessly playing.” Contrast […]

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Culling my email this afternoon, I came across a link to one of the “games” I wrote five years ago for the PalmOS platform. Finding this has made me curious: Soon, I’ll dig up the code and look more closely at how I structured the player’s interaction with the game (a game which, in turn, […]

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