This talk is called Games and the Human Condition; it was given at Rice University on September 27, 2010. It’s about “best practices” of modern game design that I find unsettling, and the way in which “social games” and “gamification” are destructive. A full video is available from this page …
Just after PAX, Stephen Totilo posted a video at Kotaku showing some gameplay of The Witness. This is video from the start of the game and shows some basic stuff, including a set of blue mazes mounted on poles and on walls, that the player must solve to proceed. I’ve …