How To Deploy an _ebooks Bot
or: _ebooks Leaves the Nest THIS TUTORIAL IS DEPRECATED. FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY. Heroku's free tier no longer suports long-running processes. About a digital century ago, I wrote up some...
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or: I Am _ebooks And So Can You!! THIS TUTORIAL IS DEPRECATED. FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY. This uses an old version of the _ebooks library and also does not work on Windows any longer. Everyone...
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Context Spelunky is a Great Game. The procedurally generated treasure-hunting cave exploration game started (and still exists) as a free PC download created in GameMaker and was later upgraded to...
View ArticleDessert of the Real: A Pre-Partum
After a sprint Monday afternoon, I prepared a proof of concept for my upcoming generative fan-non-fiction adventure based on the works of Slavoj Žižek: Dessert of the Real. I brought it to a local demo...
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How relevant are the username, handle, and avatar next to the 140-or-fewer-character messages in your Twitter timeline? How do the experience and meaning change if content is decoupled from social...
View ArticleTokyo Jungle Is Not About Survival
Tokyo Jungle, a feral post-apocalyptic urban simulation game, is ostensibly about survival; its Challenge system and player affordances wrap that core in ambition and domination. Where the avatar’s...
View ArticleEmbracing Failure in Game Narrative
Notes from GameLoop 2011 GameLoop is an “unconference” on the topic of games (both digital and non-) organized by Scott Macmillan and Darius Kazemi, based on the BarCamp spirit of enabling direct,...
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