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Postmortem on There.com.
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Consider your lolcat buzz killed.
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Using the scroll bar to your advantage, avoiding barriers to exploration.
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Heavenly Sword sold 1.5M copies, but failed to turn a profit for its developer.
links for 2010-03-31
links for 2010-03-30
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This is just like the Lorrie Moore-gets-a-Tumblr story from a while back, except that it's not fiction, and it doesn't have the surreal horror ending.
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So very non-scientific, but still interesting.
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LEGO + Pictionary = want.
links for 2010-03-28
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Portal for word games.
links for 2010-03-26
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What won't they make an app store for nowadays?
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'If you turn to a game to make your application sticky, the application itself might not be. That is, games are a simple (I would even say cheap) way to get people to come back, even if they do not really want to use your service.'
links for 2010-03-25
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'An entire generation seems to have become used to experiences clogged with menus and text, spammed with awkward cutscenes, choked by voice acting, mangled by incongruent narrative, segmented by load times, stalled by informational messages. '
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Basically, he just says "show, don't tell," but he says it in ALL CAPS WHICH MAKES IT EXCITING.
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'An international day of blogging to celebrate the achievements of women in technology and science.'
links for 2010-03-24
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Movie-inspired team posters for NASA missions.
links for 2010-03-22
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Cheat sheet on what health care changes kick in when, for those of us who haven't been keeping up.
March Noodle
it’s fun to poop out a song in under an hour — I think it took me longer to record the song than it did to write it.