Comments on: How Board Games Explain Everything — Part 3: Differance

By: Arijit Das

Arijit Das — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 13:39:29 +0000

hahahahahahahah!!!!!wonderful wonderful…..this is the most enjoyable and assimilable(but very appreciable tooo!!!) blasphemy that i have come across for a loooong time.thanks a lot

By: Game Retail Store » This Week In Video Game Criticism: The Reticular RPG Conundrum

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:38:34 +0000

[...] Julian at LittleBoBeep on ‘How Board Games Explain Everything – Pt 4, Utopia, Sex, Art’ and for the sake of completion, here’s part 3 which I don’t think we linked to at the time: ‘How différance can be understood in terms of games, play and Calvinball’. [...]

By: Josh Foreman

Josh Foreman — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:57:07 +0000

Kinda makes me want to try to design a CalvinBall computer game. It would necessarily be less feature-rich, but with a mixture of mad-lib style input and physics-based mechanics I think a pretty good facsimile could be created.

In the world of videogames, we see a move towards less structured play and environments as technology has allowed worlds to be more open, leading to the sand box game, which contains more elements about free-form play than “beating” or “mastering” a specific challenge or rule-set.

By: in class

in class — Sat, 29 May 2010 17:15:09 +0000

spectacular essay! you really broke down some complex and confusing issues in a way that is funny and easy to understand.

of course, i’m a sucker for calvin & hobbes