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Monthly Archives: March 2012

Why are We So Driven to Make Games?

By Jeff | Published: March 28, 2012

We have to make games. We think about them. We draw them. We write about them. We replay images in our minds—incredible images that we can’t stand for the rest of the world to never see. We have to design games. We long for them to get made. Every week I receive dozens of emails [...]

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What the Bird Said Early in the Year

By Jeff | Published: March 8, 2012

Last summer, while walking through the grounds of Oxford’s lovely Magdalene College, I came across a plaque engraved with a poem by one of my favorite authors. I heard in Addison’s Walk a bird sing clear: This year the summer will come true. This year. This year. Winds will not strip the blossom from the [...]

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Christianity, Deontology, and Virtue Ethics

By Jeff | Published: March 3, 2012

A word of explanation. I teach a course at SMU|Guildhall on Ethics and Video Games. It is by no means a Christian course and has no explicitly Christian content. But some of the students tell me that they’re Christian. Since Christian ethics is an interest of mine, I’m keen to interact with these individuals at [...]

Posted in Bible, ethics, faith | 4 Comments
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