He has refused to join any of the retired players' groups that have sprung up, has refused to attend retired players' conventions and has chastised some former players for being opportunists.
In fact, he likes that his players forsake convention — and even their razors — in the name of having a good time.
As he begins to explore, Galactic Cafe's creation immediately starts to tease the player, turning conventions of game design on their heads and toying with the illusion of a fabricated world.
Aimee's matter-of-fact, depressed presence fills Tommy with the excitement of being part of a narrative again, a player in the conventions of love.
Experimenting with ideas present in the work of Bertolt Brecht and Luigi Pirandello, Kalisky developed ideas of "superacting" and "supertext" as means to liberate not only player and script from convention but also to help realize the dramatic potential of an audience.
It is the playing that draws spectator, player, intention, equipment and convention into the one event.
Ron Paul is still Ron Paul, and is still in the race -- he's not going to drop out at all, and will be in the race until the very end, trying to scrape together enough delegates to be considered a power player at the Republican convention.
As the video game industry convened here on Wednesday for E3, the top annual game convention, those players started getting answers.
Voted the 2010 record of the year by German jazz writers, the album probes the mind of another horn player who upended jazz conventions of his day — and found his ideas validated years later by the N.E.A.
The concept of the fan convention, featuring players, coaches and executives who participate in question-and-answer sessions and sign autographs, was created in 1986 by John McDonough, who was the Cubs' director of sales and promotions at the time, and is now the president of the Chicago Blackhawks.
