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The World’s First Badass Educational Game

Amplify’s revolutionary approach to designing games for the classroom? Hiring game designers, duh.

Jamin Warren

Sep 11, 2014

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The Short Game

Jamin Warren

Apr 25, 2010

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The Armchair Revolution in Gaming

Jamin Warren

Apr 18, 2010

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Gaming's Environmental Toll

In last year’s indie hit Flower, you play as a flock of flowers, wistfully floating through the country landscape,...

Jamin Warren

Apr 09, 2010

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Guerrilla Gardening for Gamers

"The Earth laughs in flowers." -Ralph Waldo Emerson In most videogames, plant life is merely party of the scenery-which is why...

Jamin Warren

Mar 05, 2010

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The Color Game

Videogame insiders discuss a lack of diversity in the industry-and what to do about it. Last week in Las Vegas, I led a panel at...

Jamin Warren

Feb 25, 2010

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Videogames' Slow Move Toward Accessibility

For people with disabilities, many videogames have long been off-limits. Times are changing, though. "The continuing existence of unfair and...

Jamin Warren

Feb 18, 2010

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The Rise of High-quality Nonprofit Videogaming

A new nonprofit shows that well-designed games can also do the world some good. "Good works are links that form a chain of love." -Mother...

Jamin Warren

Feb 11, 2010

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Paying to Play

How some videogames are rallying for Haiti-and why others aren't. The expansive relief effort to the earthquake in Haiti has been extraordinary....

Jamin Warren

Feb 03, 2010

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Bite-sized Gaming

A short-and-sweet game for those of us who can't stay up all night playing videogames anymore. "A Mayfly flies a single day / The daylight dies...

Jamin Warren

Jan 28, 2010

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Landscapes from Virtual Worlds

James Barnett makes fauvist paintings of picturesque videogame environments. "I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between...

Jamin Warren

Jan 14, 2010

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A Videogame to Fight Cubicle Malaise

Paolo Pedercini's experimental game, "Every Day The Same Dream," challenges players to escape the dreariness of the working world. When the...

Jamin Warren

Jan 06, 2010

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Advancing the Art and Science of Virtual Crowds

\r\nHow Assassin's Creed 2 captures the rhythms of the masses\r\nEvery crowd has a silver lining. –P.T. Barnum\r\n\r\nEvery morning when...

Jamin Warren

Dec 23, 2009

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Playing with Color

A crop of current videogames is exploring new chromatic possibilities. "Seek the strongest color effect possible. The content is of no...

Jamin Warren

Dec 12, 2009

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Post-Katrina New Orleans as "Fictional Space"

Videogame developers often shy away from putting real places in their games. That's perhaps for good reason. In 2007, Insomniac...

Jamin Warren

Dec 05, 2009

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Amplify’s revolutionary approach to designing games for the classroom? Hiring game designers, duh.

In last year’s indie hit Flower, you play as a flock of flowers, wistfully floating through the country landscape,...

"The Earth laughs in flowers." -Ralph Waldo Emerson In most videogames, plant life is merely party of the scenery-which is why...

Videogame insiders discuss a lack of diversity in the industry-and what to do about it. Last week in Las Vegas, I led a panel at...

For people with disabilities, many videogames have long been off-limits. Times are changing, though. "The continuing existence of unfair and...

A new nonprofit shows that well-designed games can also do the world some good. "Good works are links that form a chain of love." -Mother...

How some videogames are rallying for Haiti-and why others aren't. The expansive relief effort to the earthquake in Haiti has been extraordinary....

A short-and-sweet game for those of us who can't stay up all night playing videogames anymore. "A Mayfly flies a single day / The daylight dies...

James Barnett makes fauvist paintings of picturesque videogame environments. "I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between...

Paolo Pedercini's experimental game, "Every Day The Same Dream," challenges players to escape the dreariness of the working world. When the...

\r\nHow Assassin's Creed 2 captures the rhythms of the masses\r\nEvery crowd has a silver lining. –P.T. Barnum\r\n\r\nEvery morning when...

A crop of current videogames is exploring new chromatic possibilities. "Seek the strongest color effect possible. The content is of no...

Videogame developers often shy away from putting real places in their games. That's perhaps for good reason. In 2007, Insomniac...