Gold Farming

Two articles on gold farming:
The Life of the Chinese Gold Farmer
China used prisoners in lucrative internet gaming work

World of Goo Developer Interviews

Interview 1
Interview 2
Interview 3
Interview 4
The making of the world of goo

Don't Starve Developer Interviews

Interview 1
Interview 2
Interview 3

Terraria Developer Interviews

Here are 3 brief interviews with the developer of Terraria:
Interview 1
Interview 2
Interview 3

Ripple Dot Zero

Ripple Dot Zero is a throwback '90s platformer that evokes the look, sound, and gameplay of early 16-bit era games.

Interview with the creators

Blog by the creators

Google Uses Minecraft to Teach Quantum Physics To Kids

Google thinks it can get kids hooked on the wacky world of quantum physics early on by using the popular game Minecraft. The Internet giant has unveiled a game mod designed to help millions of Minecraft players become familiar with the strangeness of quantum physics rules that appear to defy reality.
The new game mod, called qCraft, allows Minecraft players to mess around with quantum rules such as superposition, entanglement, and observational dependency. These tricks would allow players to create quantum teleporters, make entangled Minecraft blocks that can both be affected simultaneously by changing the properties of just one block, and build castle drawbridges that vanish when seen from different perspectives.

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Video Game College

Checking in on North America’s first video game college, 25 years later

Welcome to game school

Digipen's 100,000 square foot campus doesn't look like a “video game academy.” At least, not the scare-quote kind. This isn't some Willy Wonka-styled factory of fun, nor a Chuck E. Cheese playland.

TV screens and posters celebrate prior graduates' games, and an arcade cabinet in the lobby plays student projects. Otherwise, the implications of the word “Institute” definitely apply. The place looks like a community college, seriously. From the outside, it's an unremarkable gray building whose giant windows are smothered in blinds. From the inside, it's all small lecture halls bathed in fluorescent lights and massive computer labs broken up by cubicle walls.

The first hint that this place is different comes from the couches. In my first hour at the school, at roughly 10am, I see two students passed out on them. And this is during the school's admittedly slower summer quarter.

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