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On The Eve
It's fun when you're the one doing the disrupting
May 17
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April 2023
The Way Things Were Going
In which I definitely cannot hear the falconer
Apr 26
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October 2021
NFTs and the future of digitally native art
I originally wrote a draft of this post what feels like an eternity ago on August 14th. In crypto, that might as well have been the dark ages. My…
Oct 2, 2021
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July 2021
Axie Infinity, bots, and decentralization
I. The crypto markets are down nearly 50% from their peak earlier this year, but people are still excited about all things blockchain, and gaming is no…
Jul 24, 2021
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[Fringes] Palm Springs Edition
This is an edition of Fringes, my roughly weekly* newsletter about my travels on the fringes on the internet. Often about games, sometimes about…
Jul 7, 2021
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June 2021
[Fringes] Path of Exile's unfriendliness, performance-enhancing controllers, and more
This is an edition of Fringes, my roughly weekly newsletter about my travels on the fringes on the internet. Often about games, sometimes about... other…
Jun 4, 2021
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Path of Exile and Game Design Islands
I wrote about the game Path of Exile (PoE) briefly in my newsletter a few weeks ago, calling it “the collective fever dream of an army of mad systems…
Jun 2, 2021
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May 2021
[Fringes] Space music, bananas, and board games
This is an edition of Fringes, my roughly weekly newsletter about my travels on the fringes on the internet. Often about games, sometimes about... other…
May 20, 2021
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[Fringes] The future of gaming, Path of Exile, and Factorio as a job interview
This is the inaugural edition of Fringes, my roughly weekly newsletter about my travels on the fringes on the internet. Often about games, sometimes…
May 10, 2021
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A Guide to the Future of Gaming
If gaming is eating culture, I’d like to avoid being eaten. But if you’re interested in the future of gaming, what should you do? Besides playing lots…
May 10, 2021
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April 2021
Noodle Theory Part 2: Autonomy and Relatedness
In part 1 on Noodle Theory, we talked about using artificial stat boosts to give players the illusion of skill progression. In part 2, we dive into the…
Apr 21, 2021
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Noodle Theory Part 1: The Illusion of Skill
In The Grasshopper: Games, Life, Utopia, Bernard Suits defines a game as “a voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles.” We know people love to…
Apr 7, 2021
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