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adrianhon

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Former CEO and co-founder of Six to Start, made Zombies, Run!, wrote You've Been Played and A History of the Future in 100 Objects

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“A publisher told me that his (successful) business operated on the rule of thumb that 80% of books were not read by the purchaser - they were either gifts or found their way onto glass tables or dusty bookshelves

…That's why we like to say a record collection defines who you are, and a book collection defines who you really want to be.”

Will Page in the Winter 2023 issue of The Author

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VR Agent is an "attendant free" arcade game where the VR headset is fused to the lightgun, which descends from the top of the unit when you pay. The game isn't much to write home about, but the form factor is fascinating. https://adrianhon.substack.com/p/vr-agent

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@Edent weeeeellllllll

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The Squid Game Immersive Gamebox experience fails to understand:

  1. Games designed for specific physical contexts require a lot of work to be fun elsewhere

  2. There’s a reason children’s games are for children, not adults

  3. The least interesting thing about Squid Game is the games https://adrianhon.substack.com/p/squid-game-immersive-gamebox

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@glennf that’s called twitter

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On paper, The Invincible is everything I want games to be – a sci-fi adventure based on Stanislaw Lem's 1964 novel on the nature of intelligence and humanity's quest to dominate the universe, with stunning "atompunk" art.

In practice, it just doesn’t work – but other games can only wish their failures were this daring. https://adrianhon.substack.com/p/the-invincible

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Welp, just booked my hotel room for the worldcon in Glasgow next August. Non-refundable, so I guess I'm going to be there …

adrianhon,
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@cstross are they doing Worldcon member discounts yet?

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Apparently ZRX (aka Zombies, Run!) is App of the Day in Canada, if you have an iPhone and a moment I'd very much appreciate screenshots!

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Amid the UK's annual refusal to return the Elgin Marbles and British harrumphing on "well actually we took care of them and Greece stole them blah blah", here's my fun sci-fi short story about aliens taking Stonehenge!

https://mssv.net/2023/02/26/the-taking-of-stonehenge/

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@Daojoan Thank you!

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Loved this piece by Gita Jackson. I recently subtooted about the intro to the game essay collection in question, which trod the same old "games are important, they can make you cry!" stuff we've had for decades.

https://aftermath.site/the-new-games-journalism-same-as-the-old-games-journalism

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Oh shit For All Mankind is back, alt history opening montage fuck me upppppp

adrianhon,
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@Edent weekly!

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Final Fantasy IV introduced the iconic Active Time Battle system, but its greatest triumph is conjuring a story of loss, death, and grief, and what those feelings drive people to do.

This is a guest post by @bijan and it's a banger!

https://adrianhon.substack.com/p/final-fantasy-iv-pixel-remaster

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After almost 17 years, I'll be leaving Six to Start early next year.

I've had the privilege to work with incredibly talented and kind colleagues on important, award-winning games like Zombies, Run!, Marvel Move, We Tell Stories, The Walk, Smokescreen, The Code, and more.

Games are a hard business. We chose to make games that help people get fit and stay healthy – games that people wouldn't regret playing, games that we wouldn't regret making. And I think we achieved that.

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Many other people are leaving Six to Start too, sadly, but many people are staying, and I wish them the very best.

In my remaining time I'll be working hard to make sure everything is handed over smoothly, because I still care a lot about every single ZR and Marvel Move player.

What's next for me? A long break!

I have plenty in store for my weekly newsletter, and I have ideas for books to write and games to make.

You can find out more about what I'm up to here: https://mssv.net/about/

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I'm not planning to jump into a new job any time soon but if you'd like to talk about interesting projects such as:

  • VR & AR
  • Doing gamification well
  • Immersive entertainment
  • Writing about games and tech
  • Improving book publishing for tech & culture

hit me up! https://mssv.net/about/

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I occasionally entertain the idea of writing a book about the past, present, and future of immersive entertainment, and this panorama of Versailles that people would pay to look at from 1818 at the Met is a reason why I think it’d be so interesting

Wide angle panorama of Versailles
Curving wall showing panorama of Versailles
Panoramic View of the Palace and Gardens of Versailles John Vanderlyn (1775-1852) Oil on canvas, 1818-19

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ChatGPT, write me the most sickening capitalist take possible

https://archive.ph/2023.10.12-044121/https://www.ft.com/content/c4ec903e-bc0c-46e0-958e-189f60dff24e

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Everything is Gamified Now, Part 1 Billion:

"Slack will pause normal business operations for one week on Monday because employees have fallen behind on [gamified] internal training"

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/slack-pause-normal-business-operations-213155432.html

Some slack engineers are gaming the system with automated scripts Not surprisingly, the Ranger status requirement has been met with some disdain from employees at Slack. Two sources told Fortune that many Slack engineers have found workarounds via scripts, code that can be quickly built to automate a task, to click through the modules for them. “There’s no mandate [on] what modules people take so people are posting lists of the easiest ones and are speed running them,” a source said. The same source added that staff speculated that this training is for CEO Marc Benioff's “ego” so he can claim to customers that a certain percentage of his staff are using Trailhead.

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I'm finishing up this round of edits on my book, and after that I want to catch up on some reading. What is an SFF novel or short story published this year that you loved?

adrianhon,
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@brainwane @Wiswell @mariafarrell honoured!

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This is an extraordinary heartbreaking and hopeful story https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/02/the-villa-where-doctors-experimented-on-children

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He should run an ARG where the person with the highest mastery of Bloomberg terminals wins the company

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/21/climate/bloomberg-succession-plan.html?unlocked_article_code=aQ2FBfcG5CqxhWbvLhyIXB__WGuhxg-OvKB2xjevj1ElAsgErdq-ztNF-5oeuvPNL70BSRkSMJgopGunZ6o2DEPkJcokbTHZEgjgmWe7ESA-kGzrESOchfdpWLJguZ8b3wXZ94jIT9MWNjvvDONG6ltoqMTE-6pEprtxSwGBcwMTFFSjyvIyGgaCCA_-2SIty-a05ijwevQaaRYG1ohL049HUrPJk3CAgNrGkUodyFTaDdwFHFEliO2G9fHVD355telOpTfIvbUleNELC4zhFEjm46MQ4-6R2hMpYQM7kZUJmUpkjqE3ZEGQv_37383N-m6jeExvc6lbQuUGwEPk0ewVkw&smid=url-share

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Normal brain: Elemental is a love sorry
Big brain: It’s about immigration
Galaxy brain: It’s about the emotional challenges of customer service

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🆕 blog! “Book Review: Reality Is Broken - Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World by Jane McGonigal”
★★★⯪☆

I have never felt less like a human being than while reading this book. I don't mind video-games, I find them mildly diverting. I've never gotten in to massively multiplayer online game…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/12/book-review-reality-is-broken-why-games-make-us-better-and-how-they-can-change-the-world-by-jane-mcgonigal/
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@Edent @bencurthoys yep I think it’s a bad book and misunderstands what games are and what their appeal is. I go into quite a bit of detail into gamification in my book.

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