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Adam Ruch is is a researcher and program director at Qantm College in Sydney Australia. He coordinates the Bachelor of Interactive Entertainment degree, teaching game design. This is a collection of thoughts that such study encourages.
Recent Posts
- On “White Knights”
- ArmA 2 Wasteland: Development vs. Design
- Videogames and the Gillette Model
- Game Maker Day 6: Not Forgotten
- Game Maker Day 5: Great Expectations
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ITJourno.com.au BlogWatch
On the 21st of June at itjourno.com.au, Allie Coyne posted the following story after an interview with me about this very blog. What follows is reprinted with her kind permission.
ITJ’s ‘BlogWatch' takes a look at some of the lesser known Australian tech sites and media outlets, and this week we have a chat to the founder of the Flickering Colours games review website, Adam Ruch.
How much thought do we put into how the worlds in videos games are developed? How far do we really delve into how fictional worlds work? It’s not hard to get on the net and find out how the latest game has rated, who likes it and who doesn’t, but for those who want a critical, academic review of LA Noire, there’s not a whole lot out there.
PhD student Adam Ruch saw the hole in the market and took advantage of his thesis work, understanding videogames in a critical context, to launch a blog at the start of 2009, focusing on critical reviews of video games.