Mindful Gamer
Reflective essays on play, design, and psychology, and the ways games shape how we grow, feel, and see the world.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 46 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 7 days ago |
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When the Machine Disappears
From Pac-Man to Alien: Isolation, how game AI can feel intelligent, how players fill in the gaps, and what that reveals about AI detection.
When the Machine Disappears
What Follows Us Out of the Game?
Last year, we started The Mindful Gamer’s Guide to Planetary Health.
A potentially great series idea and I skipped over it.
Excellent series management, on my part. 😅
The 1st chapter looked at gaming itself: stuff like energy use, hardw...
The Least Helpful Game I’ve Ever Loved
I got to the Great Crystal and it still didn’t give me a map.
That’s where this starts, because it’s the moment I finally said something out loud. Not exactly a curse. More like a dejected… “damn.” The kind of noise you make when you reali...
Something to Patch
Photo by R.D. Smith on Unsplash
One of my favorite moments in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor isn’t a boss fight.
It ain’t one of the big cinematic sequences, or the times where it all erupts into spectacle and the music tries its hardest to con...
Wanting Something New
I got a new console recently.
Not because I needed it. Nothing was broken. Nothing had stopped working.
I just wanted something different.
When it arrived, that first moment felt unfamiliar. My hands hesitated a little. Movements that we...
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A reflective space exploring play, design, and psychology, and the ways games shape how we grow, feel, and see the world. I also run Latensphere on YouTube \ud83c\udfae For pitches, inquiries or just to say hi: [email protected]
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