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By Chaim Gingold On September 11, 2017 · Leave a Comment

I have an new portfolio site! It’s much more up to date than this little old blog, and has cool new projects on it. Check it out:

🌻🌻🌻 http://chaim.io

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Earth, A Primer

By Chaim Gingold On January 13, 2015 · Leave a Comment

So Earth Primer, which used to be “GeoBook,” is nearing completion! It’s been a long journey. I won’t say much about it here because I’ve been working very hard on a web page and trailer (www.earthprimer.com). It should be coming out very soon, within the next month or so. As soon as the launch […]

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Toy Chest

By Chaim Gingold On June 28, 2013 · 7 Comments

Last year Lea Redmond and I co-designed a game/installation called Toy Chest for the SF Come Out and Play Festival. Originally we called the game Toy Fight, but found that this wasn’t putting people in an appropriately cooperative/improvisational frame of mind. The basic idea was to design a game (and installation for […]

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Simulation for Games class

By Chaim Gingold On June 24, 2013 · Leave a Comment

I just finished teaching a class at Univ. of California Santa Cruz on Simulation for Games. Below is a demo reel of the student projects. At the class page you can learn more about the class, play all the student projects (in browser!), and read the syllabus. Final projects are prototypes of dynamic explanations embedded […]

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Computer: Plaything or Tool?

By Chaim Gingold On January 6, 2012 · Leave a Comment

I recently gave a talk at the ASAP/3 conference that sketched the history of computers as tools & playthings. I’ve learned my lesson on giving dominantly visual talks: if you don’t have good notes then they are a major bummer to give in the future, plus nobody else can read them. What was I […]

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Geology Primer Trailer

By Chaim Gingold On October 15, 2011 · 1 Comment

Jan. 2015 update: see the launch trailer and learn more at EarthPrimer.com.

So, IndieCade happened, and we (we being my project & me, I suppose) were lucky enough to be selected for inclusion in the festival! I made two videos for the festival that I’d like to share. First, a trailer so you […]

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Geology: An Interactive Primer

By Chaim Gingold On June 14, 2011 · 8 Comments

Jan. 2015 update: See the launch trailer and learn more at EarthPrimer.com.

Last week I wrapped up my submission to IndieCade. It’s not actually a game—like much of the stuff I find fascinating these days—and this requires some explanation. IndieCade, you might be surprised to learn (I was), isn’t just for games. […]

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A Brief History of Spore

By Chaim Gingold On February 15, 2011 · Leave a Comment

This essay was written part way through Spore’s development, and summarizes one of the biggest transitions the project made — unknown to many — from what could have been a SimEarth like game/science toy to a capital-G computer Game. It tells how Spore made some of its early, and most crucial, navigational decisions down […]

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Catastrophic Prototyping and Other Stories

By Chaim Gingold On January 20, 2011 · 2 Comments

The following essay was originally published in Tracy Fullerton’s Game Design Workshop (2008). I had given talks in the past on prototyping, but this was the first essay I wrote on the topic, and I think it holds up. If you’re interested in the Advanced Prototyping talk Chris Hecker and I gave at GDC’06, […]

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Magic Mailbox

By Chaim Gingold On December 30, 2010 · 3 Comments

I recently helped my friend Lea Redmond over at Leafcutter Designs make a cute little stop motion animation for her World’s Tiniest Post Service.

I don’t think the promotion is still available, but the tiny letters and packages, not to mention many other goodies, are still available over at her site.

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