The Artful Gamer

“I am not sure that I have lived since my childhood.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Night Flight

Due to the fact that I got married over the weekend, I neglected to mention that the two very articulate gentlemen who write the Experience Points blog and podcast – Scott Juster and Jorge Albor – spoke for a few hours with yours truly. We spent most of our time discussing a recent article of [...]

Nels Anderson recently pointed out a post over at Jamie Madigan’s Psychology of Video Games blog. While Madigan’s post does not really say anything new (and is based on the kinds of experimental social scientific research that went out of style in the 1960s – sorry, couldn’t help myself), it does bring up the most [...]

A little story first. “My son. He’s such a geek”, my mother ribbed at me in her familiar Québéçoise accent. She flipped over the jewel case in my hands and looked at the back cover, and shook her head. I looked up at the cashier, my eyes pleading for some way out of this. She giggled [...]

Earlier this year, I worked up the cojones to send a quick e-mail to writer and photographer Christy Marx. As I reviewed her long list of writing achievements, especially in television shows such as Jem and the Holograms, G.I. Joe, Bucky O’Hare and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, I was reminded of the importance of saturday morning rituals [...]

The other day I was having coffee with friends who brought their 2 1/2 year old son over for a visit. He was bored, looking for anything to do in our (boring) house – so I handed him an original Game Boy with Super Mario Land 2. I figured that a toddler would enjoy smashing [...]