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Bibliography and links.
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‘[Team members] have a hard time seeing completion or how they will complete the game. It becomes my job to help assuage their uneasiness and help them to see their path to completion.’
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‘skills, tools, and attitude needed to empty your email inbox — and then keep it that way.’
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Hully Gee, honorable search engine developers make poor choice of mascot.
links for 2007-07-31
Bejeweled vs. Diamenty: Not so much with the “vs.”
I love it when people realize that business isn’t a zero-sum game.
links for 2007-07-30
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Retro-edu-gaming lolcats!
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‘The beauty of the five-second rule is that… it is not about food so much as it is about yearning and disgust and gastronomic history and evolutionary wiring and the implicit social contract we make when we break (and drop) bread with other human beings
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‘Cyd Sherman’s online gaming addiction brings more than she bargained for.’
links for 2007-07-29
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Base-64-encode the entire page (all assets must be inlined), then turn it into a data: URI.
links for 2007-07-28
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‘An Arizona farmer built this 10-acre homage to the talk show host (Google Earth coordinates 33.225488,-111.5955).’
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How do you handle the gutter in between the DS’s two screens?
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‘The most popular location was Money Island… with a score of 136,000. Sexy Beach… came in at 133,000. The Sears store on IBM’s Innovation Island… 281; Coke’s Virtual Thirst pavilion, a mere 27.’
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‘For gaming to make it as a major-network TV sport, the big hurdle will be translating a medium that is by its nature meant to be experienced firsthand into a compelling hands-off spectator experience.’
links for 2007-07-27
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Followup to the controversy over Boyd’s essay on MySpace, Facebook, and class.
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‘MySpace + YouTube + Maple Story + Skype + Habbo Hotel = 100 million users.’
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Based on nearby business, mostly. My home scored an 89!
links for 2007-07-26
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Yum, Diner Dash on consoles.
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‘Within weeks, Orb users reduced their peak-period energy use by 40 percent….the glowing sphere was less annoying and more persistent than a text alert…. “When you suddenly see your ball flashing red, you notice.”‘
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‘The old pervert lurking in chatrooms is more a media construct and a product of the culture of fear we live in than a reality our kids are likely to bump into.’
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VW by Aardman Animations. Not your average avatars.
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‘Every Rockstar project turned into a huge clusterfuck. I mainly blame this on a horrendously inefficient company structure combined with a few individuals who thought they were hot shit but really didn’t know anything about either video games or marke -
Control with the MacBook’s tilt sensor, stretch your paddle by shouting into the mic.
links for 2007-07-25
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‘Activision’s success has been attributed to the continued success of the Guitar Hero franchise… other great successes so far this year have all been movie licenses.’
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Ray Tenorino is actually a member of Guam’s legistlature, but still — nice.
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GE educational/advergame site, promoting energy conservation and GE products. Very slick production, but the games don’t help drive home the message.
links for 2007-07-24
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Ebert’s right: by his (classical, narrow, dated, and uninteresting) definition of “high art,” games can never qualifiy.
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Heroes + GTA? Looks good, V!
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It’s fun to guess at what well-funded startups are starting up.
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I can think of many worse choices.
links for 2007-07-23
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‘Musicians may think that their best chance at a livelihood is locking away their music… and demanding that fans buy everything they want to hear. But Prince is confident that his listeners will support him, if not through CD sales then at shows or thro