June 2, 2006
Friday Night Links
- Microsoft is holding a chatterbot contest with $40K in prizes. Bots due Oct 15.
- E3 panel of game designers on interactive narrative
- Brandon Rickman critiques Glassner’s Interactive Storytelling
- Ernest Adams on “Perlin’s Law” (oh please)
- An ongoing series of game structure analyses at Only A Game (1 2 3 4) — identifying key player moves (aka verbs, or discourse acts) in several games
- Excerpts from Katherine Isbister’s Better Game Characters By Design
- Second a-Life
- Very cool recursive interactive images
- DARPA life recorders (previously blogged 3 years ago as “LifeLog“)