Richard Bartle, QBlog. “Fact Checking.” 16 February 2005. Since I just started playing World of Warcraft, I had a look today at Richard Bartle’s “typography of online players”:http://mud.co.uk/richard/hcds.htm, which Espen Aarseth refers to in his great paper “Playing Research”:http://www.fineartforum.org/Backissues/Vol_17/faf_v17_n08/reviews/aarseth.html. From there I went on to Bartle’s blog. For those who don’t know, Bartle was involved, [...]
If there’s anyone who wasn’t quite sure if I’m a computer geek, this is the post to prove it… Ever since I went to the Digital Arts and Culture conference at RMIT in 2003, where I presented “this paper”:http://www.fineartforum.org/Backissues/Vol_17/faf_v17_n08/reviews/hourigan.html, (many of the political arguments of which I now thoroughly disagree with), and where every second [...]
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Kiss Me, Genius Boy is Ben Hourigan's debut novel, and the first of three volumes in the No More Dreams series. Available on the full range of ebook platforms starting at just 99c on Kindle, KMGB is an unforgettable tragi-comic tale of teen romance and obsession. Full details here.About
Ben Hourigan is an indie novelist, the author of Kiss Me, Genius Boy (2011). He is also the manager of digital operations at a Melbourne design publisher, a freelance writer and editor, and the founder of ebook label hourigan.co.
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