The opening credits of the “Watchmen” movie were shown at WonderCon, and they’re amazing. If the rest of the movie can live up to the first 10 minutes, I’m sold.

A recap of all my posts so far on the subject of storytelling in videogames.

Why “videogame writing should be short” is bad advice.

My opinions of “Lost” episode “316″

Hulu.com is going to great lengths to block boxee from accessing its “service,” and its self-serving justifications aren’t helping.

Make your own! Some good ones available via twitter search.

Apparently the revolutionaries of the last few episodes were armed with low-caliber exposition rounds, Teflon-Flashback coated to penetrate the armor of the Rules of Dramatic Writing, including “Show, Don’t Tell.” But I kid “Battlestar Galactica” only because it annoys me so much. This week’s episode (“No Exit”), was paced and written as well as it [...]

The game “Flower” for the PlayStation 3 is short, simple, and masterfully done.

Okay, “Lost,” I can see how watching a bunch of French-speaking scientists slowly going mad and shooting each other might not be the gripping, edge-of-your-seat drama that I’d been imagining all this time. Thanks for letting me discover that for myself, though, and showing us only the cool parts. For at least the first 20 [...]

Previously on Spectre Collie, I snapped my tether and responded to a critique of games I worked on. The claim was that adventure games are bad at giving feedback to the player, partly because it’s impossible for the game to know what the player’s thinking. I agreed that adventure games are usually lousy at giving [...]