Cheating vs. Gaming

Cheating is not gaming.  When we say we’re “gaming” a system, what we’re doing is cheating or exploiting a loophole.  I believe that these sorts of negative connotations with our …

Game = Ert?

The game community was abuzz a couple months ago after Roger Ebert’s famous “Games Are Not Art, and Never Will Be” blog post.  It’s all a matter of opinion, of …

Game Motivations

A little while ago a few friends from the game dev community were all sending out invites to a new(ish) Zynga game, FrontierVille.  I jumped into the game to see …