Comments on: A Very New Thing: Dan Pinchbeck

By: Yes: It's a Game - Tap-Repeatedly

Yes: It's a Game - Tap-Repeatedly — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 17:04:51 +0000

[...] need to stop asking whether something is a game or not.” This was a point made by Dr. Daniel Pinchbeck, during his GDC Microtalk, “Things we need to stop talking about.“ Likely, he was [...]

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Tue, 17 Jul 2012 23:38:45 +0000

[...] Complicated Relationship: Doug Wilson (Electron Dance) “Two weeks ago, Dan Pinchbeck said that academics are able to make games that define the bleeding edge as, in the academic world, failure is just as valuable a teacher as success. Yet Wilson made the [...]

By: HM

HM — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 23:26:02 +0000

@beam: I cannot help you with your query regarding dan’s dating situation. Maybe his facebook page will help out.

@gregg: I’d be interested in hearing what you think about dear esther. Its probably the gaming equivalent of the notorious belbin test.

@shaun: its my mantra every time I put up a post. I’m a pessimist deep down.

By: ShaunCG

ShaunCG — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 17:29:38 +0000

Excellent stuff Joel. Glad to see your interviewees are getting really stuck into these questions. I like how Dan Pinchbeck so cheerfully adheres to Sam Beckett’s aphorism, “fail better”!

By: Gregg B

Gregg B — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 12:08:06 +0000

Another terrific interview. It sounds like these academic devs are in really good places; analyzing and pushing the medium, inspiring others and paying the bills, all at once.

I installed Dear Esther over the weekend with a view to playing it this week at some point, I look forward to it. Who knows, I might even pluck the courage up to play Amnesia one day and then move on to A Machine for Pigs… but I’m a scaredy cat.

By: BeamSplashX

BeamSplashX — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 23:19:02 +0000

What a smart, well-spoken man. Single?

The link between thechineseroom and the University of Portsmouth is almost a study in and of itself. I’m glad the university is so open to all the directions Dan takes the studio in. I hope future successes encourage other universities to follow suit.

The Unlimited Hyperbole podcast sounds a lot like something I’d like to hear. Thanks, HM!

By: HM

HM — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 21:24:26 +0000

No problem Joe and thanks for stopping by!

By: Joe Martin

Joe Martin — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 21:18:52 +0000

Thanks for the podcast link!

By: HM

HM — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:04:08 +0000

@Richard, thanks! One of my key questions for the series about how academic developers could sell games if their games were entwined with university research – and thus university funding. Really pleased that Dan went to town on this question.

@Alex, thanks! I think the rest of the interviews are similarly illuminating but for all sorts of different reasons. Great comment about the trajectory of Dan’s research. I wonder if Dan will actually make a bona fide FPS one of these years…!

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:56:57 +0000

You’ve accumulated some great interviews in this series.

I admire Dan Pinchbeck because he’s not just some guy that made a game with no shooting in it. He’s a guy that played like every shooter. Then wrote a 300-page thesis on shooters. Then made a game with no shooting in it.