notes

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Artificial intelligence:

• Automated and assisted design — A brief survey (2011)
• Bibliography: Encoding and generating videogame mechanics — From my CIG 2012 tutorial (2012)
• Game metrics without players — Strategies for understanding game artifacts (2011)
• NP-hard problems aren't always hard — And aren't the kind of hard that cryptography and AI care about (2010)
• Sicart's 'Against Procedurality' — A reply (2012)
• Why did Prolog lose steam? — Its declarative lunch was partly eaten (2010)

Book reviews:

• Book review: 'Prince of Networks' — Harman on Latour's metaphysics, and his own (2012)

Game design:

• Auto-skinning videogames — Via constraint-based game spaces (2008)
• Emergent narrative in The Sims 2 — Matt Brown at AIIDE 2006 (2006)
• Factoring game design — Four kinds of things that go into a videogame (2008)
• Moral calculus in videogames — Some ways it is and might be done (2006)
• Newsgame rhetorics — Six ways newsgames make their rhetorical points (2009)
• Reflexive game rules — Breaking rules makes new rules (2006)
• Smart terrain causality chains — An approach to adventure-game puzzle generation (2012)
• The Categorical Imperator — Notes towards Kantian gaming (2006)
• The morality systems of Black and White and Fable — A review (2006)
• Where are the IGF 2013 finalists from? — Looking for indie-game clusters (2013)

The Internet:

• Geographically densest Wikipedia coverage — By number of geo-tags (2011)
• Retention of early Slashdot users — Still some around (2011)
• The convergence of notability and verifiability on Wikipedia — And some awkwardness left by the gaps (2011)

Philosophy:

• Design as the third discipline? — Design studies and objects (2010)
• Funsultants, gamification, and work as play — A collection of sources on corporate fun (2011)
• Not just argument and critique? — Philosophers doing other things (2010)
• Soviet gamification — Can we learn from 'socialist competition'? (2011)
• Specters of tacology — A prehistory and literature review (2010)

Miscellaneous:

• Anastas Mikoyan eats a taco — Which is meat wrapped up in a tortilla (2011)
• Capsule introduction to 3d wireframe rendering — Overview with pseudocode (2012)
• Google song-to-text? — Not very accurate, but results can be interesting (2013)
• Processing audio on the Atari VCS — Notes from an unrealized project (2012)
• The system has detected — Fragments of reports (2011)
• Voting with your feet, Condorcet edition — Taking the immigration-as-voting metaphor literally (2012)
• Why isn't the economy more like hydraulics? — The strange simplicity of economic relationships (2011)
• Word-unit palindromes — A strange historical absence (2012)
• You might want a tolerance interval — A great taste in intervals (2011)