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SUPERSTRUCT CELEBRATION!

Who won top Superstruct Honors from Bruce Sterling, Warren Ellis, Ze Frank, Tim Kring, Jimmy Wales, Chris DiBona, Tim O'Reilly, and more? How many years did we add to our human survival horizon? How...

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Special Mission: Inventing the Future! UPDATED with 300 micro-forecasts

UPDATE:At our Fall 2008 Technology Horizons Conference, we crowd-sourced five questions (via Twitter, blogs, email, and SMS) about the Blended Realities that we will likely all be living in by 2019.We...

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These Games are Experience Grenades

Just Do ItOriginally uploaded by What What. Okay, I had a revelation.Games like Superstruct and The Lost Sport and World Without Oil and Reverse Scavenger Hunts and Tombstone Hold 'Em and SF0 missions...

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I am on a ninja quest (to clean my apartment)

I love Chore Wars. If you've seen me give a talk in the last year or so, you know this, because I almost always talk about Chore Wars. In case you're wondering, yes, I actually play this game, and in...

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Top Secret Dance Off Playtesting

Adventurous playtesters wanted.UPDATE: Cool... playtesters have joined from all over the world already: Japan, Singapore, Indonesia, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Italy, U.S., Australia, New Zealand,...

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I'm Throwing Down a Dance-Off Challenge

On behalf of Guilt-Edged Blonde, I challenge ALL YA'LL to summon even a small FRACTION of the UNPRECEDENTED choreopowers of SNEAKINESS such as I unleash up on you in this dance.Guilt-Edged Blonde...

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The Secret Guilty Sign

This is my video for Top Secret Dance-Off #1. Rules of the dance-off below. There is some major trash-talking and hip-waggling happening in this video. This is part of the awesome new dance MMO Top...

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UPDATED: I am not a game evangelist.

You know, it's funny. I used to think of myself as a game evangelist. That's because for years now, I have been spending a lot of time talking to people who don't play a lot of games, or who don't take...

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I need to game-ify writing my book

Writing a book does not provide me with the same kind of real-time feedback, scaffolded challenges, and network of potential allies that a well-designed videogame does.Also, it is harder than playing a...

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Free Space is coming...

I've been working on a new future forecasting platform at IFTF. It's called the Signtific Lab, and it's designed as a kind of crowd-sourcing, micro-content, forecasting MMO.Here's the trailer for the...

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This is my Free Space future. Show me yours!

Our first massively multiplayer thought experiment is LIVE, and will end in ~ 36 hours!If you have ideas about the future of Free Space or the Interstellar Internet, play with me...

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Take the Outlier Challenge

This week from the Institute for the Future and the Signtific Lab: it's the third and final trial in our Free Space trilogy!Free Space: How to invent the future by playing in the Signtific LabView more...

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Have you had the dream?

If you've had the dream, you will know it.Strings, tubes, wrinkles, branches, or flowing lines..MassiveSmallThe dotYou probably had it multiple times, and it probably started when you were young. It...

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INTERN with me and Top Secret Dance Off!

I am looking for an intern to help me run Top Secret Dance Off! It's an open-ended internship (starting ASAP, averaging 10-12 hours a week, and ideally continuing for 3-4 months). You can be anywhere...

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Prototype a new outdoor game with me this Saturday in downtown San Francisco!

Prototyping is fun! Originally uploaded by superkiy. Wanted: 4-6 adventurous players to prototype a new outdoor game with me and Kiyash this Saturday April 11 in downtown San Francisco. Reward:...

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Play CRYPTOZOO! SAN FRANCISCO games June 5, June 7

The cryptids are out there. Are you chasing them?NIGHT CHASE - Friday June 5, 2009 downtown San Francisco 8-10 PMDAY CHASE - Sunday June 7, 2008 along the Embarcadero 2 - 4 PMJoin the network and RSVP...

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New York City - CRYPTOZOO games this weekend! WITH PHOTOS

CRYPTOZOO is a fast, strange, heart-pumping adventure. It's literally the most fun game I've ever designed. If you're in New York City this weekend (June 12th and 13th) please come play with me! This...

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CryptoZoo Game Trailer... and Behind the Scenes

The official CryptoZoo trailer: Find more videos like this on CryptoZooBehind the Scenes... (and how to play guide) Find more videos like this on CryptoZoo

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Super Better - or how to turn recovery into a multi-player experience

I’m either going to kill myself, or I’m going to turn this into a game. After the four most miserable weeks of my life, those seemed like the only two options left. It was the summer of 2009, I was...

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URGENT EVOKE: Help us run a 10-week crash course in changing the world

UPDATE: The game is live! Play EVOKE now at www.urgentevoke.com URGENT EVOKE: Help us run a 10-week crash course in changing the world Reward: $1000 (US) We’re launching a new alternate reality game....

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