{"id":1933,"date":"2013-04-20T15:52:04","date_gmt":"2013-04-20T19:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caseyodonnell.org\/blog\/?p=1933"},"modified":"2013-04-20T15:52:04","modified_gmt":"2013-04-20T19:52:04","slug":"dear-twitter-name-my-f-ing-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caseyodonnell.org\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/20\/dear-twitter-name-my-f-ing-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Twitter: Name my F-ing Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Twitter…<\/p>\n

Name my book.<\/p>\n

Seriously.<\/p>\n

The book has lived in my head for far too long as Developers in the Mist<\/em> that I can’t really imagine it as anything different. I posed the question<\/a> to the Extending Play<\/a> community today and received some very helpful suggestions.<\/p>\n

The book is an ethnography of the “AAA” videogame industry. It explores the everyday work of game development practice. The numerous technological, cultural and political-economic structures that surround it, support it and hold it back. It is about a pervasive structure of secrecy and the intense creative collaborative work that goes into building the complex systems that get labeled very simply as, “videogames.”<\/p>\n

The text is structured in a way that tips it’s hat to the NES and Super Mario Bros. in important ways. Thus, there is a tendency towards thinking about pipes and pipelines.<\/p>\n

It needs a name that is accessible, yet cuts to the quick. Lend me your wit:<\/p>\n