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	<description>a splendid plaything</description>
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		<title>Quiet Style</title>
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Gama posted an in-depth interview with Keita re: the Nottingham park project. It does a great job of capturing his current state of mind.. especially as it relates to his feelings about being a &#8220;game&#8221; designer. 
I liked this part especially:
After the press conference, one of GameCity’s organizers drove Takahashi to the local art store [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/~hunicke/blog/?p=42422</link>
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		<title>GameCity Deux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Home and recovered (mostly) &#8211; to find more goodness from GameCity in my inbox! For starters, Tony has updated his blog and site to include the awesome results of the SpiteYourFace &#8220;BrickStock&#8221; animation workshop:

Also, Brandon posted a piece on the Elite paper-folding event, and BoingBoing ran a piece on the 15 pixel megamix (flOw? C&#8217;mon [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/~hunicke/blog/?p=42404</link>
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		<title>GameCity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Greetings from Nottingham &#8211; host of GameCity 09!

This year&#8217;s festival has been a fantastic blend of talents &#8211; wonderful animators, artists, game designers, hackers and academics from around the world. Even tho we are mid-festival, I wanted to take a break and report on its fantastic events!
This is in no small part due to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/~hunicke/blog/?p=42388</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Your Festival</title>
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		<link>http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/~hunicke/blog/?p=42399</link>
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		<title>Flower Love!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This just in &#8211; there is a super comic from our friend Gabo over a Treee &#8211; all about what it&#8217;s like to play Flower! A super special gift, made for Jenova&#8217;s birthday!!!
So&#8230;. click the picture if you don&#8217;t mind a little spoiler&#8230;.

*YAY GABOTRON*
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		<link>http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/~hunicke/blog/?p=42358</link>
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		<title>Tuning Love!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Great post on Attract Mode about the impromptu party-game of Tuning which emerged during the post-IndieCade BBQ @ Casa Roja!

Awww &#8211; I miss you all so much! Here&#8217;s to great adventures and wonderful creations. See you @ GDC!!!
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		<link>http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/~hunicke/blog/?p=42351</link>
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		<title>New love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Ross I&#8217;m totally falling for Pomplamoose. So genius!!

What did it for me, really? It was her singing in French. Happy Wednesday!
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		<link>http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/~hunicke/blog/?p=42348</link>
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		<title>Officially EPIC!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Warren&#8217;s new game is now officially announced, and on the cover of this month&#8217;s Game Informer. Fantastic, fantastic news!!

In addition to coverage of the game in the mag &#8211; GI has posted a piece on Warren&#8217;s relationship with Mickey (includes a great video interview) which is EPIC in and of itself. Watch and you&#8217;ll see [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/~hunicke/blog/?p=42332</link>
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		<title>IndieCade 2009: Lovefest!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We did it! IndieCade 2009 was a resounding success, full of awesome games, laughter, clowns and balloon animals. 




Ok, maybe not clowns and balloon animals &#8211; but&#8230; chalk drawing, full-contact stick figures, poetry, creative shouting (&#8221;F*** You, It&#8217;s Art!!&#8221;) and of course, miles and miles of Indie developer love. Beginning the the super-fun Micro-Talks session [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/~hunicke/blog/?p=42314</link>
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		<title>IndieCade 2009 &#8211; It&#8217;s AWN!!!</title>
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CULVER CITY, CA, (September 18, 2009) – IndieCade announced today that its annual flagship festival, the International Festival of Independent Games, will take place on October 1-4, 2009 in Culver City, California.The culmination and celebration of its annual competition, IndieCade 2009 will present 30 independent games selected from hundreds of entries.
The International Festival of Independent Games [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/~hunicke/blog/?p=42298</link>
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		<title>Talk Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve posted my last two talks, with notes and a few fixups for broken or missing fonts/pix. These are both works-in-progress&#8230; UX is the more polished, I think&#8230; but time will tell. I learned a TON in the process of writing them, delivering them and discussing them with the UX community. 
Both trips were wonderful, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/~hunicke/blog/?p=42284</link>
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		<title>Being a Great Game Designer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In prepping for my UX talk, I came across this great post on what it takes to be a great UX designer. Concidentally &#8211; this is *also* what it takes to be a great Game Designer.
I get asked about this topic often &#8211; especially in email, from aspiring designers &#38; students.  So &#8211; here is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/~hunicke/blog/?p=42256</link>
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		<title>Parking Day &#8211; SF</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Looks like I will be in SF for &#8220;Park(ing) Day&#8221; &#8211; a celebration of parks taken to the streets. I&#8217;m going up to the city for the UX Week conference &#8211; and attendees have been encouraged to submit a design! The park should take up 2 parallel parking spots for $200 or less. 
Here&#8217;s what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/~hunicke/blog/?p=42246</link>
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		<title>Polyghost lives!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Silvio&#8217;s team has gone live with their latest project &#8211; now available for the iPhone! 

Do you love vinyl toys? Do you love having fun? Then what are you waiting for? Go check it out! 
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		<link>http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/~hunicke/blog/?p=42227</link>
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		<title>More than mixes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the quest for juciness and feedback in the systems we use to communicate &#8211; I&#8217;ve become increasingly interested in this particular culture of VJ/DJ remixing:

I like when it&#8217;s nostalgic, and plays with tone&#8230;

When it creates a pairing for the visual experience based on inspiration&#8230;

But this one is by far the most interesting &#8211; making [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/~hunicke/blog/?p=42235</link>
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		<title>Keep Calm Storm</title>
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Saw a bunch on my trip &#8211; this saves me having to post them! 
Wondering when the make-your-own will appear on Facebook&#8230;
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		<link>http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/~hunicke/blog/?p=42232</link>
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		<title>LOLs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s nice to know that while I&#8217;ve been gone, the raging debate about health care has continued to provide engaging, well-considered commentary from men and women all over the country. Even &#8220;newscasters&#8221;!

Actually going to the doctor when I get back to the states &#8211; wondering if the entire building will have melted in the aftermath [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/~hunicke/blog/?p=42225</link>
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		<title>Design Sites</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two random but very cool sites I found while working on my Talk for dConstruct this week:

 A &#038; B. 

Design. Heart!
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		<link>http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/~hunicke/blog/?p=42220</link>
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		<title>Carnival!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Met up with Davey &#038; Ian for dinner last night &#8211; at Mosob, just near the annual Notting Hill Carnival! 




Wow, what a fantastic festival! Music, smiles, dancing&#8230; Red Stripe &#8211; what could be better? 
Special super wonderful thanks to Kass for introducing us to the lovely family that runs Mosob and of course, feeding [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/~hunicke/blog/?p=42208</link>
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		<title>Other Games</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Safely arrived in London &#8211; and Heather did as well! Today we try to keep her awake till dinner &#038; drinks&#8230; and I continue to polish the slides for my dConstruct talk.
Which reminds me &#8211; you should be keeping tabs on her work. And&#8230; you should check this awesome review of her latest (starts at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/~hunicke/blog/?p=42205</link>
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		<title>Flower Power</title>
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Kellee went to GDC Europe last week &#8211; where discussion of TGC&#8217;s Flower began with the David Cage&#8217;s keynote talk on meaning in games:

Cage said, baldly: &#8220;Most games have no meaning&#8221;, and games don&#8217;t generally have anything to say &#8212; &#8220;you just spend some time getting excited shooting and jumping&#8221;, most of the time.
The Quantic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/~hunicke/blog/?p=42192</link>
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