After two months of waiting, I got yesterday a letter from the Open University saying that I passed the computer games course (Digital worlds: designing games, creating alternative realities) with score 80%. Not bad. I'm sure I got marks deducted for going over the word count limit in the ...

If video games existed at the time historical figures lived, who would you like to have designed one? And which kind of game would they design? Some curious suggestions at the Guardian's game blog. I especially like the proposal for a one-level platform game by Escher. Something along the ...

Who knows? But thanks to a group of Welsh shepherds and their trained dogs we finally know what electric sheep dream of...

I'm currently taking the pilot (i.e. not public) presentation of Digital worlds: designing games, creating alternative realities, a new 10-week distance learning course about computer games, their history, their economic and cultural impact and their design. As a practical taster of the issues surrounding the design of games ...