The above slides come from a talk that I gave at Casual Connect San Francisco 2013. I talked about a future when microconsoles like GamePop and OUYA overcome their initial hurdles and find their customer. My supposition was that the microconsole gamer probably won't be today's console gamer, but instead more like the players who've made social, mobile and tablet games a phenomenon. To them the idea of a tiny, inexpensive and simple gaming device is key. They like to play games, but don't want to feel that they have to join a religion to do so.
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The Win Imperative [TechCrunch]
This week on TechCrunch I wrote about one of the common themes of What Games Are: the precept that all games are played to win. Using this theme as a basis my latest article talks about the role of rewards in games and how reward by itself is often boring without the spark of a win to guide it.
As usual, you can read more here.
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