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18 Cadence and Processes of Expression

By Aaron A. Reed | Published: April 4, 2013

18 Cadence is a new piece of electronic literature that’s almost definitely not a game, something less than a book, and explores a rarely tackled corner of interactivity in interactive narrative: the choices and decisions of how to tell a story, what bits to include, what to leave out, how to arrange them. It’s available […]

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Humanities-Based Game Design

By Noah Wardrip-Fruin | Published: February 13, 2012

Prom Week is about to be released and Expressive Processing is about to come out in paperback — a confluence that has me thinking about humanities-based game design, something I’ve been more actively mulling since an NSF workshop on the Future of Research in Computer Games and Virtual Worlds that UCI hosted in 2010. Obviously […]

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Vote Prom Week for the IGF Audience Choice Award!

By Josh McCoy | Published: February 6, 2012

It is our pleasure to present Prom Week’s Audience Choice Special Release! Please enjoy playing this version of Prom Week — we would very much appreciate your vote in the 2012 Independent Games Festival Games: Main Competition Audience Award.

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A Map Generation Speedrun with Answer Set Programming

By Adam M. Smith | Published: October 4, 2011

There’s nothing really special about this map-looking thing, other than that you can’t get from the top-left corner to the bottom-right corner in less than 42 steps (I looks to take 56 or so). What is special here is how quickly we’re going to develop a flexible, style-ready generator for it. Set the clock for […]

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IEEE TCIAIG Special Issue on Procedural Content Generation

By Jim Whitehead | Published: June 9, 2010

Sparked by the strong interest in the Procedural Content Generation Workshop upcoming at FDG 2010, I have been working with Julian Togelius and Rafael Bidarra to create a special issue of the journal IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence in Games (IEEE TCIAIG). Deadline for submissions is November 1, with publication aimed for […]

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Retroactive Continuity and ‘South Park’

By Sherol Chen | Published: April 21, 2010

I was shocked to see on CNN that a radical Islamic website had issued this message to ‘South Park’ creators: “We have to warn Matt and Trey that what they are doing is stupid and they will probably wind up like Theo van Gogh for airing this show,” the group said. “This is not a […]

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