With the Coronavirus coming around, so many of us are forced indoors for a time, forced into isolation where digital tools will be forced to become the norm. We’re already seeing things like Netfli...
My first course with PICO-8 as an introductory space for games programming is just about complete. What went right? What went wrong? This post gets into the weeds and explores what I need to change...
My relationship with games and game studies is often one of curiosity. I find the concept of ‘play’ useful yet I find that ‘play’ is more useful to study something else than it is to study games th...
What is code? Why do we write it in PICO-8? What does that mean? Before getting there, some context One semester when I was new to teaching, I was asked at the last minute to teach an introductor...
Learning Programming with PICO-8 I was once told that programming is the act of shifting around the limitations of resources, language, talent, or knowledge to provide a vehicle for users to do th...
In my formative years as a student in sociology (2004–12), I was pushed into the study of games by my mentors. They felt that because of books like Barbie to Mortal Kombat, My Life as a Night Elf P...
Or how we all want to stay home instead of go on adventures. I wrote this introductory bit for my dissertation and i’m not sure it will stick with it so I thought i’d put it here. I think a lot ...
The Centrality of Objects Understanding the measures of Centrality in Association Mapping In social network analysis, some of the more useful calculations display the centrality of actors and the...
Is it just that it’s called “Social Network Analysis” or is the “social” artificially maintained? Social network analysis, graph theory, and the various forms of network analysis have developed in...
The monad is an irreducible object that remains inert until called upon for assembly. This is most easily compared to a database which themselves remain inert until an inquiry calls for parts of th...