Jul 10Games, Play, and Joy: Part 8Epilogue. This is the epilogue of my apparently now-finished(???) series Games, Play, and Joy, which is based on a class I taught in 2019 at NYU’s ITP (as part of my residency there), aimed at games-curious artists. …3 min read3 min read
Jul 10Games, Play, and Joy: Part 7The joy of feeling seen. This is Part 7 of my series Games, Play, and Joy, which is based on a class I taught in 2019 at NYU’s ITP (as part of my residency there), aimed at games-curious artists. …28 min read28 min read
Jul 6Games, Play, and Joy: Part 6The promises and perils of simulations. (Wow, um, hi! I published my last essay way back in 2021, but at least not much has changed in the political or digital landscape since then, right? Right???) This is Part 6 of my series Games, Play, and Joy, which is based on a class I taught in 2019…19 min read19 min read
Mar 7, 2021Games, Play, and Joy: Part 5Adding gamefeel and juice. This is Part 5 of my series Games, Play, and Joy, which is based on a class I taught in 2019 at NYU’s ITP (as part of my residency there), aimed at games-curious artists. …Game Design15 min readGame Design15 min read
Mar 2, 2021Games, Play, and Joy: Part 4The art of finding the fun. This is Part 4 of my series Games, Play, and Joy, which is based on a class I taught in 2019 at NYU’s ITP (as part of my residency there), aimed at games-curious artists. …Game Design13 min readGame Design13 min read
Jul 25, 2020Games, Play, and Joy: Part 3Playing with systems of power. This is Part 3 of my series Games, Play, and Joy, which is based on a class I taught in 2019 at NYU’s ITP (as part of my residency there), aimed at games-curious artists. Hope you enjoy. Before the NYU course even existed, I originally developed a bunch of this…Games22 min readGames22 min read
Jul 23, 2020Games, Play, and Joy: Part 2Using rules as excuses and catalysts. This is Part 2 of my series Games, Play, and Joy, which is based on a class I taught in 2019 at NYU’s ITP (as part of my residency there), aimed at games-curious artists. …Games11 min readGames11 min read
Jul 22, 2020Games, Play, and Joy: Part 1Creating joyful possibilities with games. I’m trying an experiment. In Fall 2019, I was an artist in residence at NYU’s ITP. As part of my residency, I taught a course called Games + Joy, which used joy as an aesthetic lens for game and play design, exploring their intertwinement throughout art history and political activism…Game Design11 min readGame Design11 min read
Jul 20, 2020Possibilities at Play: On Games of Joy and PowerThis is a lightly-edited transcript of my Eyeo talk from 2018. This talk had a bibliography of sources and related reading, which can be found here. This is a bit of a time capsule of my thinking on games and joy at the time. I continued on a much deeper…Games33 min readGames33 min read
Apr 23, 2019Stuff we learned building Drawalong ARExploring YouTube Drawing Tutorials with ARCore Lately, there’s been a lot of cool examples of developers using augmented reality to help people tap into their creative side. …Design15 min readDesign15 min read
