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Press Play on My Past: Why Old Tech Still Speaks to Us

No DeLorean, no flux capacitor—just a dusty boom box and the cassettes I’d abandoned in...
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The $50 Camcorder and the Art of Just Doing

In 1986, I sat at our family’s Apple IIe, the glow of the monitor flickering...
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Not All Monsters Are Villains—Some May Be Misunderstood Heroes

You can flip through any edition of the Dungeons & Dragons "Monster Manual" and find...
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The Line Starts Here: A History of the Blockbuster

What do you think of when you hear the term "Blockbuster?"I thought of a video...
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The Mayan Game of Pok-Ta-Pok: The Original Deathmatch, No Respawn

Image of the largest Pokétalk court in Mesoamerica, built around 864 A.D On a recent...
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Read the Room? The Room’s Already Read You

I was recently facilitating a scenario-based exercise — a session where the room is wired...
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How Sony’s Founder Gave Us the Greatest Gift: Time

Before streaming queues and "Next Episode" buttons, missing your favorite show meant really missing it....
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Breaking the Magic Circle: When Stories Step Into the Real World

You know that moment when Ferris Bueller in Ferris Bueller's Day Off turns to the...
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Culture Isn’t a Vibe in the Room—It is the Room

Here’s something I’ve learned the hard way: culture isn’t just the vibe in the room—it...
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From Screenplay to Game Design: The Art of Telling a Good Story

Screenwriting and game design share a fundamental truth: if the story isn’t strong, everything else...
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Steal This Mechanic: Why Game Rules Are Free for All

There’s a beautiful secret in the world of game design. It’s the kind of thing...
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If my robot only had a brain…

I was all in on robots in the 1980s. As an elementary school kid, my mom...

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