Bird Droppings and Silly Putty

The Hidden Uses of Newspapers

Given my ongoing research on games and journalism, along with the occasional publications of my games by news organizations, I often think about the fate of the newspaper. I’m talking about the print newspaper, that big, black and white thing one folds and unfolds and holds in front of one’s face. There’s lots of talk about the death of the… read more

Videogames: Can They Be Important?

My plenary address at the Southern Interactive Entertainment & Game Expo

The following is the plenary address I gave today at the first SIEGE conference here in Atlanta on October 6, 2007. The title of the session was â??Games: Can They Be Important?â? My fellow plenary speakers were Ernest Adams and Daniel Greenberg.   Today it is possible to work though an entire undergraduate and graduate education in videogames. Whether thatâ??s… read more

Atari VCS Programming in Xcode

Software that makes it easier to make Atari games on your Mac

Download forMac OS X Leopard, Xcode 3.1 60 kb – Mac OS X 10.5 Download forMac OS X Leopard, Xcode 3.0 56 kb – Mac OS X 10.5 Download forMac OS X Tiger 69 kb – Mac OS X 10.4 Don’t you wish programming Atari VCS games on OS X was easier? I’m sure it’s a question that keeps you… read more