This month on empyre there is a discussion about ‘liquid narrative’. If you can wade through the rhetoric, there is actually some good comments being made. The topic of June at the – empyre – mailing list will be Liquid Narratives. The concept of ‘liquid narrative’ is interesting in that it allows to think about

  Well, not my bad. My Bad: 25 Years of Public Apologies and the Appalling Behavior That Inspired Them is a book written by Paul Slansky and Arleen Sorkin. They have a VidLit of the book which is quite fun, and offer a blog on apologies and you can download the MyBad song. I’ve been a

A couple of weeks ago I gave a lengthy talk on MMOGs to the game design students at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). We ended up doing an interesting comparative analysis of Second Life and World of Warcraft. They represent probably two extremes in virtual worlds: who they attract, what players do, how the