Category Archives: Gaming

New Year, New Game: Dogs in the Vineyard

Today is the Chinese New Year’s Day. Last night’s fireworks have left their remains strewn all around the streets and parking lots of residential complexes here in China, and everywhere one has the feeling that people are having great fun with their families, in spite of the mess. In that spirit of festive messiness, I’ve …

January 23, 2012 – 4:43 pm | By David | Posted in Gaming | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)

A Friendly Foe

This is about challenge, opposition, danger, and fear. Suppose I say to you, hey let’s play this game. You say 1, I say 2, you say 3, and so on, and when we get to 10, then it’s over! Sounds kind of boring right? There’s nothing for you to put your mind to, no challenge …

January 8, 2012 – 10:01 pm | By David | Posted in Gaming | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

The Game World

All good games have power, to inspire, to captivate, and change your behavior. The best way that I’ve found to understand why is to imagine each game as its own world; the process of playing that game involves finding or creating this world, understanding or defining it to some extent, entering it, exploring it, and …

January 4, 2012 – 11:52 pm | By David | Posted in Gaming | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)

The Value of Games

I’m a firm believer in the power of games. Even before I saw this TED talk about how gaming could change the world, I already knew that there was something special about the way games can affect human lives. They had changed my own. Admittedly, not all that change was for the better. God only …

December 31, 2011 – 11:51 pm | By David | Posted in Gaming | Tagged , , | Comments (2)