What you need to make a living as an independent game designer in the "long tail" economy. The article is about artists in general, but if you read further down, there is an example of a game designer using his fans to help finance future games.
PeaceMaker: play as either the Palestinian President or Israeli Prime Minister and make the right choices to lead to peace. Free Mac/PC demo, highly recommended.
Passage: a surprisingly affecting game about love and death, by Jason Rohrer who has made some other interesting games (all free Mac/PC downloads).
An abstract art game. Play the game first, then read the statement, then play it again.
An essay from Rod Humble, the author of the game, who's worked on commercial games since the early 90's and now heads the Sims Studio at EA: Game Rules as Art
(discovered on the blog Arthouse Games, which also has a great rebuttal to Roger Ebert's "games cannot be art" argument.)
In-depth review/demo of the laptop:
The date for your "exam" is Monday, May 12, at 8:30 am. We will not meet for the exam, but your final projects should be uploaded to your student-iat.ubalt.edu accounts. Late projects may be turned in up until 8:30am Tuesday the 13th for one letter grade off.
The game concept document due date has been changed to next Wednesday, the 23rd, from Monday.
An online board game from Coco Fusco.
Is this a game? Does it matter? The artists' Realtime Art Manifesto. Another creation of Auriea Harvey & Michaël Samyn, The Endless Forest, is a non-violent all-deer MMORPG.
