Simon Griffee

What: Games

• Pacing

  

  I like play that slowly builds tension and then releases it with intensity and consequences. Maps. Sounds of nature. Long distances. The passage of time. Night and day cycles. Changing light. Clouds. Weather. Wind, foliage, animals, dust, fog, rain, lightning storms. …continue

• The Door Problem #

  Liz England explains work roles in a game company.

• Space Invaders in the Brazilian Cerrado, Cerrado, Brazil

  Summary: Living in the natural world and experiencing some of first and recent videogames. By Rio Arrojado, Bahia, Brazil, c. 1982. Photograph by my father, Peter Griffee. I was 5 years old, running around with shorts, often knee-high boots and a stick deep in the Brazilian Cerrado. At first we lived in tents, with a makeshift kitchen whose fire also heated water pumped in from the river. There were plant nurseries, big snakes and spiders, a cleared field for futebol and another that served as a runway for a sturdy aeroplane that was the only other way to arrive other than a two-day hike through wild savannah. …continue

• Escape From XP #

  Microsoft is changing, thankfully, finally, for the better. I hope.