Forgive this a small, digression as I briefly summarize. I confess, that when I first considered the Blogging Assignment at the begining of 670, I thought this was going to be easy, in fact I was certain this last posting was going to be cake.  Frankly it’s turned out to be the most frustrating of [...]

Operation is one of the, funnest “hybrid” board/electronic games of my childhood.  Fairly simply designed, it only required two AA batteries connected to a pair of surgical tweezers and a simple board layout featuring an (almost) anatomically correct caricature of a male surgical patient “Cavity Sam” (“Sam”) laid-out on the operating table with a dozen [...]

Living in Los Angeles has certain serendipitous advantages. One I’m particularly grateful for this month, is that my co-worker began the MFA Cohort in Interactive Media Design at USC two weeks ago. Further, (also lucky for me) his planned concentration is the concept and design of educational games. The Interactive Media Design Program (IMD) is [...]