Sissy's Magical Ponycorn Adventure Delights & Inspires

©2011 Cassie Creighton, screenshot from Sissy's Magical Ponycorn Adventure
The story of Cassie, age 5, and Ryan, age 33, a daughter-father team who participated in this month's Toronto Indie Game Jam (TOJam) 2011 -- where they made the incredible, hilarious and adorable Sissy's Magical Ponycorn Adventure -- has made its way all over the internets this week, and for good reason. Theirs is a great

YouTube's Copyright School, Pirating vs. Fair Use

A couple of months ago, Youtube published a video aimed at educating young people about copyright, featuring (and made by the creators of) The Happy Tree Friends. Entitled YouTube Copyright School, the video relays a lot of the same kind of info found in the anti-piracy ads you see at the cinema - albeit in a humorous and much less cloying format. I've embedded the video below:

Specifically, the

To Do List: NYU Game Center "No Quarter" Exhibit

©2011 NYU Game Center
I'm in NYC right now, enjoying a bit of down time, a.k.a. writing time between conferences, and all I can really say is WOW. It's been gorgeous since we got here, and since my partner is currently doing a postdoc research semester at Columbia, we've had quite a swath of Manhattan to discover and explore. I'm currently being hosted by the fantastically generous and awesome