Last Saturday, the first Pillow Fight Flash Mob was held at the planetarium in Buenos Aires. And it was a genuine generational moment for the online hordes of bloggers from this internetized 21st century.
Each time you interact at an online forum, blog or website you’re abstracted from the fact that probably [...]
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Playing at the Flash Mob
November 19, 2006
Feeling Postmodern
October 9, 2006
While I was walking to my work this morning, I started thinking about how cool the word “Wii” actually is. The individuality that reigned during the modern era is slowly vanishing to let us enter in a new century where everyone is online, everyone is connected, everyone is sharing.
It’s not longer [...]
Katamari Tributes
September 21, 2006
It’s beginning spring in the south.. and to spread the joy of these sunny days, I felt it was a good idea to make a tribute-post to one of the most inspiring games of the last years… Enjoy.
I got the privilege to assist [...]
Towards Collective Culture
August 12, 2006
I’m posting something that’s not directly related to games, but in my beliefs needs to get spread all over the world so we can understand how our culture is changing and we’re becoming witnesses of a silent revolution.
This is a conference from Lawrence Lessig (Creative Commons evangelist) on how we’re rediscovering culture as a collective [...]
Bit Generation
April 27, 2006
After this year’s GDC Experimental Gameplay Workshop, my friend Marco asked me if I believed that the brilliant works exposed at that conference had the same feeling of the Renaissance period of pictorial art. The question was quite good, because if you think about it there’s some sort of revival of the classic games of [...]
Different Cultures, Different Games?
August 25, 2005
“Japan would never produce Doom 3“
Those words came from an interview IdleThumbs staff made to Ron Gilbert. And it got me thinking if afterall there’s a real cultural identity behind games.
This industry has emerged (as it inevitably should) in the rise of the digital era. That means, the era of communications where Globalization has become [...]
