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It was hot, the night we burned Chrome.

this is the new bhopping

By popular demand, my Bowie-Hegel essay 'Annotations to Life on Mars'

I really enjoyed this conversation about Go and game design with The All Things Go Podcast. It includes my best attempt to express what I think is the most important insight that games give us into the future of AI. youtu.be/5-TEsTbGIVU?si…

In this one I complain about Hideo Kojima. But it comes from a place of love, I swear! franklantz.substack.com/p/are-games-bad

Live and Drink, friends. Caves of Qud 1.0 Releasing December 5th 2024.

I love that he assumes (correctly) that no-one will need an explanation of the invented word based on my friend's name (brag), while worrying that a reference to a Famous Greek Myth needs to be carefully spelled out...

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omg this is brilliant

is Jake Paul president now?

The military industrial hipster complex

Artt in the Age of Artifficial Intelligence open.substack.com/pub/franklantz…

The trackmania community has encountered a fascinating problem. To deeply consider its ramifications and how it should be addressed is a meditation on the reasons why we compete. youtu.be/Jkft49A8pOk?si…

AI has mastered chess, poker & Go. So why do we keep playing? Frank Lantz (Frank Lantz) is a game designer who's spent his career thinking about how technology is changing the nature of games — & what we can learn about ourselves when we sit down to play them. Listen to his

Around 1989, I had videotaped some kids playing a coin-op video game—one actually playing, and two or three others cheering and kibbitzing. At one point, one of them said "Yikes!" I showed the tape at the Xerox Parc Interaction Analysis Lab group meeting, ->

Over in the group chat someone pointed ChatGPT Operator at the Paperclip game 🤣

Fractal Block World, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Video Games Again franklantz.substack.com/p/fractal-bloc…

The most important cultural/aesthetic conversation that can happen within contemporary art is the interplay between the Felt Protocol described in Jon Askonas ⏩🚀🏛️ “New Control Society” and Frank Lantz’ description of games as “the art form of instrumental reason” in The Beauty of Games.

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