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Raptr Launches in Public Beta

In Game On, Man at Work on 22 September 2008 with Comments Off

Raptr, the startup I joined at the beginning of the year, has gone into public beta. If you play any sort of video games – even casual Flash games like Who’s Got the Biggest Brain on Facebook (my current obsession) – I hope you try it out. I’m very fortunate and proud to have contributed [...]

IA Summit: Inspiration From the Edge

In Design Discourse, Game On, Presentations on 16 April 2008 tagged Design Discourse, iasummit, iasummit08, iasummit2008, poetpainter, stephenpanderson with 2 comments

I’ve often believed that the best designers don’t get their ideas and inspiration from the place they work. As a designer that works in the social web space, I do look at a large number of new sites that come through the pipeline for inspiration. However, I also am a big advocate of experimenting with [...]

History of Video Games 1972-2007

In Game On, I've Journal on 5 April 2008 with 5 comments

When we visited my parents in February, it occurred to my dad that both my brother Jamie and I now work in the video game industry. Jamie started his own company, Klei Entertainment, whilst I joined an early stage startup for gamers called Raptr. My dad said,

I let you guys play too many video games [...]

Iminlikewithyou and Game Design in the Web

In Design Discourse, Game On on 18 May 2007 tagged games, iminlikewithyou, twitter with 14 comments

A friend of mine pestered me to join a new site about a month ago. I had heard of it. From what I had heard, it was a new dating site with the worst name: iminlikewithyou (iilwy). As in “I’m not in love with you but maybe I’m in like with you.” The name alone [...]

A Monopoly on Monopoly Rules

In Game On on 25 August 2006 tagged games, monopoly with 7 comments

I don’t get it. As some of you know, I grew up in a number of cities/countries/continents (well ok, mostly HK and Vancouver – the rest probably isn’t considered “growing up” tho I’d make a case for it). Where was I? So I played Monopoly as a kid like everyone else but I probably played [...]

Self Pontificates and Subsequently Self is of the Existence

In Game On, Thoughts and Rants on 20 July 2006 tagged eets, games, grrlgamer, instant messaging, jamie, penny arcade with Comments Off

KC: y’know KC: i hate the tycho writing style sometimes KC: the whole “i shall use long words or confuse an otherwise simple sentence to make it look like i’m a better writer than i am” KC: “mallows of the marsh” JC: where’s he say “mallows of the marsh”?? KC: he doesn’t JC: but yeah i [...]

LAPE3 POP

In Game On, I've Journal, See What I Mean on 4 April 2006 tagged ape2006, art, brandon hanvey, Comic Relief, conference, courtney patubo, e3, e32006, games, lap pop, min jung kim, nicole lee, nintendo, offpanel, robert kranzke, webcomics with 1 comment

This weekend, I’ll be at the Alternative Press Expo (APE) for the first time. I’m glad that there’s a strong independent creator community here in San Francisco and am looking forward to a different crowd from the design conferences. Brandon and Nicole have graciously offered to share their table with Min Jung, Courtney, Robert and [...]

Eets Canada Day

In Game On on 1 July 2005 tagged eets, games, jamie with Comments Off

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Jamie and Mike, originally uploaded by kev/null.



My brother returned from Seattle the other day and said, “Penny Arcade is going to mention us!”

K: [...]