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Francis Coppola’s Notebook on ‘The Godfather’

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Reblogged from fuckyeahdirectors with 80 notes

Michigan J. Frog’s failure to perform as a metaphor for the risks of demos and working prototypes. And of course, it’s funny.

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"If you are intentionally making dull games with variable ratio extrinsic motivators to separate people from their money, you have my pity"

Chris Hecker, “Achievements Considered Harmful?

Soren Johnson's notes on GDC2010 “Fear and Loathing in Farmville”

I’m just beginning to learn of the low disregard parts of the game development community have for Zynga, labeling them and their like as “persuaders” who design to extract money and not generate fun.

World Cup game explorer

Round is tricky in interfaces, but this World Cup game explorer pulls it off. It’s clean, colorful, and subtle in its underlying metaphor.

"It is impossible to get out of a problem by using the same kind of thinking that it took to get into it."

Albert Einstein

Capturing Dokuwiki

I hate Confluence, too much going on for too little gain. Dokuwiki maybe? Just noting it, saving it for later. Scheming.

Communications Primer

Ray and Charles Eames doing lovely things again, I think. I don’t have time to watch it right now. I’m trying to create my own video right now. Stumped on an infovis problem at the moment.