Frank Lantz (@flantz) 's Twitter Profile
Frank Lantz

@flantz

game designer

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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…

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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

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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...

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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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…

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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

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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, ->

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

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The most important cultural/aesthetic conversation that can happen within contemporary art is the interplay between the Felt Protocol described in Jon Askonas ā©šŸš€šŸ›ļø ā€œNew Control Societyā€ and Frank Lantz’ description of games as ā€œthe art form of instrumental reasonā€ in The Beauty of Games.