Attention everyone: the saying is “first come, first served”, NOT “first come, first serve“. This … not this. i’m ready to declare holy Jihad on anyone who botches it. Being a Christian, i’m not really sure how holy Jihad works, but if it means you get to harm people who annoy you, then yes. That. [...] Keep Reading

i feel like i’m on an endless rant over this Zynga thing. It’s like a Grateful Dead tour … i just keep following the issue around in my VW minivan, and when i finally catch up with it, i dance around naked and bask in its glory. And then they name an ice cream flavour [...] Keep Reading

From reading my surprise guest rant at GDC this year, you might think i’m a card-carrying member of the Zynga Fan Club (a club which forces you to re-confirm membership every fifteen minutes, and which sells you an auto-re-confirmation cantelope for $2). i think a lot of what motivates people to gripe about Zynga stems [...] Keep Reading

When i circled the Social Game Developers Rant in my GDC schedule as a must-see session, i had no idea that i’d wind up improvising my own rant in front of the thousands of attendees. The story of how that happened is an interesting study in the attitudes of the game industry’s top iconic figures, [...] Keep Reading

[this article was originally posted on MochiLand.com] Credits are those long, scrolling pages of text at the end of the movie that you watch just to see if the filmmakers added a special jokey tack-on scene at the end of the flick. If you read closely, you’ll see that they are the names of people [...] Keep Reading