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A little bit of History, Part I
The Founding It all started for me back in 1978, when I had my first programming experience with personal computers. Earlier that year, my good friend Brennan Hildebrand and I had each moved away from...
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The Early Years In early 1982, I had officially formed Sophisticated Software Systems. Prior to that I had been programming games (or parts of games) for several years. However, with the founding of a...
View ArticleMeaningful Play 2008
Designing and Studying Games that Matter We now interrupt your program to bring you breaking news… For the next three days, Michigan State University is hosting the first edition (of many, I hope) of...
View ArticleMeaningful Play 2008, Day 1
International Academic Conference on Meaningful Play This was the first day of Meaningful Play 2008, and armed with my name tag and program schedule, I went to the Student Union at Michigan State...
View ArticleMeaningful Play 2008, Day 2
The day begins with Play-Doh. The first keynote of the second day, All Play Is Meaningful, was given by Leigh Anne Cappello, a “Play Futurist” and Vice President at Hasbro (who own both Parker Brothers...
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The conference draws to a close. Thankfully, the final day of the conference was a “half day”, though it only lacked one session relative to the previous two days, and added a catered lunch (instead of...
View ArticleNovember changes everything
Fall back (one hour tonight). Today begins an exciting month around here. During a busy Halloween last night, East Lansing High School won its first football playoff game at home (against Haslett),...
View ArticleHoly Cow, What a Race!
The last F1 Grand Prix in 2008 exceeds expectations. No direct spoilers (yet), but the Brazilian Grand Prix was one of the most exciting races in years. It would have been a good race anyway, but...
View ArticleMission Accomplished!
The Association of Shareware Professionals emerges victorious. For more than 20 years, the Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP) has worked to promote the “shareware” marketing concept, as well...
View ArticleA little bit of History, Part III
A Shareware Venture In the early years of my company, I had (finally) purchased my own computer, a Commodore VIC-20, as well as the experience of two unsuccessful attempts at selling my own games,...
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