I’ve taken an interest in TTRPGs recently. I want to say that it was the impact of going to PAX Unplugged, but I am fairly certain it started before that — after all, I have spent the past couple years working on a book about Magic: The Gathering (which I am working on finishing now) and attending…
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On The Matrix Resurrections
The Matrix trilogy is a titanic cultural force that you already know all about, so I am not going to belabor an introduction here and simply say that the release of the new film in the franchise, The Matrix Resurrections, has been hotly anticipated and theorized and combed over. There are a lot of forces to please…
The Ludic Plague
A few years ago, Eric Zimmerman wrote about the oncoming century as a ludic one, explaining that games fundamentally change the stakes of media. Altering each encounter, everyone becomes a designer. Consumers become participants. We’ll be able to learn about complex systems because we will be able to gamify them, and in being gamified they…