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Serious Games Infuse Chemistry With Fun - Business and Games Blog A 13-y.o. kid made a CCG to teach chemistry concepts. Neat! (tags: seriousgames ccg chemistry cards) Mingus: Charles Mingus Cat Toilet Training Program Master bassist and composer Charles Mingus explains how to toilet-train a cat. (tags: mingus cats toilet training wtf howto) kuler Neat little color swatch builder. (tags: color design palette) Panda-Z Official Website Mazinger ain’t got nothin’ on…
Interesting Life I need to paste this one up on my wall or something, for when I get complacent. (tags: comics xkcd motivation inspiration) Gamasutra - From God To Cock: Mike Wilson On GameCock’s Publishing Party ‘we fund the games, we do the big marketing budgets, we do the whole thing just like Activision or anybody else, it’s just a different mindset. Basically we just check our ego as a publisher.’…
Running away with nothing but the clothes on my back and the iPhone in my pocket.
Women Monsters and Monstrous Women ‘Women, of course, have a right to want strong female characters in the games they play…. What better role model than the monster, whose ability to incite fear is so powerful it reaches out from the game?’ (tags: games gender monstrous theory) The First Web 2.0 Burger Joint and 30 Menu Suggestions ‘The Twitter: Small beef burger which may or may not arrive at your table…
Interview With Mia Rose - Amber Night ‘Had it not been for the fact that she takes her clothes off for a living1, Mia Rose’s World of Warcraft account banning might not have even made the WoW forums… But she does, and so the story… got pretty big. And then it got nasty.’ (tags: mmorpg sexuality sex porn mia rose worldofwarcraft) Shawnimals - Home Plushie ninjas! Want. (tags: toys ninja plush…
Instead of having one status mirrored across many sites, it would be better to have all of my different statuses aggregated into a single point, where I can see at a glance what I’m doing.
Geek Week: Video Podcasts: Clip from Episode 1: “The Secret Wars Re-enactment Society” Like Civil War reenactments, but fun! (tags: comics marvel reenactment video parody) Gamasutra - Breaking Down Breakout: System And Level Design For Breakout-style Games Omnibus guide to designing paddle-ball-brick games. (tags: gamedesign breakout paddle ball brick) Atari 2600 Label Maker ‘produces authentic looking Atari 2600 “Picture Labels” using your own image and title.’ Rad. (tags: atari 2600 label…
Gamasutra - Working In Japanese Game Development: The Other Side Of The Rainbow JC Barnett gives a non-rose-tinted look at the life of an American developer working at a Japanese studio, crushes a thousand Squenix fanboys’ dreams. (tags: gamedev japan working culture) MOO | You and the awesome things you do Official MOO blog gives a shoutout to the B.P.R.M.N. cards I made. (tags: my.work cards moo bprmn) Compatibility testing for…
Puzzle Pirates is basically a casual game portal with avatars and a point system, which actually puts Three Rings pretty far ahead of the curve in terms of casual and virtual world trends.
rps25_outcomes.jpg (JPEG Image, 800x1131 pixels) Gun, Dynamite, Nuke, Lightning, Devil, Dragon, Alien, Water, Bowl, Air, Moon, Paper, Sponge, Wolf, Cockroach, Tree, Man, Woman, Monkey, Snake, Axe, Scissors, Fire, Sun, Rock. Whew. (tags: rps roshambo excess charts) World RPS Society - Home (tags: rps roshambo sports tournaments) Rock Paper Scissors Spock Lizard (tags: rps roshambo)…
iLibrarian » A Guide to Twitter in Libraries ‘Librarians are using [Twitter] to communicate at conferences and events and to keep up with developments in the field, and libraries have begun using it to promote their services.’ (tags: twitter libraries microblogging) Brad’s Thoughts on the Social Graph ‘People are getting sick of registering and re-declaring their friends on every site., but also: Developing “Social Applications” is too much work.’ (tags: socialsoftware…
Main Page - WoWWiki, the Warcraft wiki (tags: worldofwarcraft wow wikis mmorpg) Main Page - YPPedia (tags: mmorpg wikis puzzlepirates)…
**i move away from the mic to breathe in : The Plugg - Music and Entertainment meme o’ the day. (tags: music race remix mashup parody meme) CGA :: Podcasts & Slides Audio (not a podcast!) and slides from CGA 2007. (tags: audio slides powerpoint casualgames conference) Message in a Bottle - Bottled Water - Luxury Water - Mineral Water ‘Bottled water is often simply an indulgence, and despite the stories…
Kongregate Closes $5 Million Series A For Casual Gaming ‘…will be financing 8 to 9 developers to create premium games for about $20-$80,000 each. Each of the games will have a free version with an optional paid upgrade to a full version.’ (tags: games casualgames kongregate venture) Dresden Codak’s car exploded, but that’s another story “Welcome to Portland! We recycle and don’t run over pedestrians!” “We’re from Alabama, so this is…
Replay videos of a three-year-old game that was completely ignored by the press and didn’t sell peanuts? No problem.
ongoing · Prognostication Tim Bray’s guesses on the next big thing(s): Green computing; Atom and REST; Ruby and Python; AJAX; Jabber as transport protocol; functional programming (but not Erlang). Aren’t at least 3 of these already the current big thing? (tags: programming predictions webapps) Etsy :: Clip-on MOOPocket Feeding my growing Moo obssesion (tags: moo cards boxes accessories etsy)…
C64Music!: Modified Commodore 64 For Cynthcart Paul Slocum adds a potentiometer and LED readout to his C64 synth. (tags: music electronica commodore64 synthesizers) moshi monsters - Gizmodo ‘cell-phone charms whose only interactive ability is to light up and twirl when your phone rings…. Each $10 charm comes with an unlock code, so that you can adopt a virtual version of your little pet.’ (tags: tamagotchi toys) Moo Minicards: Bunny/Pig/Robot/Monster/Ninja on Flickr…
disambiguity - » Embracing the Un-Science of Qualitative Research Part Three - Improvising is Excellent ‘A test script is good because you’ll be spending an hour or so with each person and you need to have something to prompt you to make sure you cover what you need to cover, and to help ensure you have a good structure to your session.’ (tags: ux usercentered research qualitative design) City Pages -…
3D Mailbox - Free 3-Dimensional Email Software. I’m still not sure if this is a joke or not. (tags: email 3d virtualworlds software) Gamasutra - EA Partners With Hasbro For Games And Toys ‘First games are scheduled to launch in 2008…. initial terms of the deal run through December 31, 2013 and may be extended for an additional four years after that.’ (tags: ea hasbro toys games exclusive)…
Hello Kitty Wrap For DS Lite Gimme! (tags: hellokitty nintendo ds stickers) How to paint anything the color of the Golden Gate Bridge on Flickr - Photo Sharing! “Golden Gate Bridge International Orange” by Sherwin Williams; “Fireweed” is a close approximation; CMYK 0/69/100/6. (tags: color paint sanfrancisco orange bridge goldengate)…
All good things must come to an end, and my contract at MGI is no exception.
CultureRx - ROWE, Results-Only Work Environment ‘In a ROWE, people do whatever they want whenever they want as long as the work gets done… You can stop monitoring the hallways, and focus your energy on the business.’ (tags: business hr management working rowe) OK/Cancel » Archive » World’s First HCI Rap: “We Got It” ‘now peruse on over to Shneiderman and Cooper / along with Steve Krug they stop interface bloopers…
“A Higher Standard” — Game Designer Jonathan Blow Challenges Super Mario’s Gold Coins, “Unethical” MMO Design And Everything Else You May Hold Dear About Video Games Excellent insights, but Blow has that tone that makes you wonder, “what games *does* he like?” (tags: gamedesign interviews jonathan blow ethics) Clip: Bogost! Colbert! Talking! - Kotaku Colbert sets Bogost up with delightfully strawmanly points, Bogost talks about expressive and persuasive games. (tags: seriousgames…
adaptive path » blog » blog archive » Is Email On The Way Out? Scoble goes nuts. (tags: scoble twitter email) Bonds now king of swing after No. 756 Record-setting HR hit at home off of Nationals’ Mike Bacsik in the 5th. (tags: baseball barry bonds homerun record)…
What Comic Books Taught Me About Hatred GayGamer.net handles DoS and hate-spam attacks with grace and humor. (tags: lgbt games gaygamer dos) Reroll: Game | Broken Toys The lifecycle of an MMOG, conveniently summarized. (tags: mmorpg antipatterns gamedesign bartletype) JS Online: Wisconsin natives become rescuers NB: The Josh Lee in this story is NOT me. (tags: news 35w joshlee) The Near-Fame Experience of Being a Bravo Reality Star — New York…
Intelligent Artifice: Dueling Banjos for Guitar Hero 2 “Dueling Banjos” hacked in as a level in GH2. Like the best GH songs, it looks unbelievably hard, but totally worth it. (tags: guitarhero duelingbanjos music guitar banjo hacks) Balancing Puzzle Fighter Sirlin details his changes to attack formulas in the new update of Super Puzzle Fighter. (tags: gamedesign balance sirlin puzzlefighter) A Mystery Solved: ‘Fake Steve’ Is an Editor - New York…
This Is Mind Candy: Frivolity : PrakBot Play the Infocom HGttG game over Jabber. (tags: retrogaming information hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy interactivefiction instantmessaging jabber) Suck My Blog: LG INTERVIEW: HOLLYWOOD’S DEADLIEST LVL 60 GNOME WARLOCK Interview w/ Felicia Day. (tags: worldofwarcraft felicia day interviews) Sarah’s Transistor Radios ‘Features over 1000 photos of radios in my collection, along with manufacturer and model number, if known.’ (tags: collection transistor radio) StarCraft Origami - Hosted at Zstudios…
What is the Subspace Emissary? A Smash Bros game with a decent single-player mode? Be still my heart. (tags: nintendo wii smashbros) Video games are players’ pastime ‘Today’s players are part of the first generation to grow up with video games. And by the time players reach the Majors, that MTV Generation lifestyle is deep-rooted.’ (tags: games sports baseball retrogaming) Insomniac Games :: R&D ‘Documents our current research and development in…
Don’t play games with me!: Ico of War! Fumito Ueda (Ico, Shadow of the Colossus) on God of War: ‘Each part was specially created, and the parts were all consistent with each other. That’s a really extravagant way of creating things.’ (tags: gamedesign gamedev fumito ueda godofwar)…
Disney Acquires Club Penguin In Deal Valued At $700 Million; To Be Branded ‘Disney’s Club Penguin’ $350MM up front, $350MM in incentives. (tags: mmorpg virtualworlds clubpenguin disney acquisitions omg) In Focus: How to use “Furoshiki” [MOE] (tags: howto diagrams bags folding reuse) MPR: I-35 bridge collapses over Mississippi River in Minneapolis I’m OK; was nowhere near it. How are you? (tags: 35w bridge collapse accidents roads minneapolis twincities mn minnesota) Metroblogging…
Sometimes the real world crumbles and falls apart, and we need the virtual world to help us keep our shit together.
The Escapist : Pinball Revived ‘Like vinyl records and other analogue amusements, pinball survives through the grace of connoisseurs.’ (tags: pinball collecting retrogaming hobby) The Long Tail: Why I gave up on Second Life Good discussion between Chris Anderson, Wagner James Au, and others on RL marketing in SL. (tags: virtualworlds secondlife chris anderson wagner james au marketing) Pac-Man: CE Long Exposures - a photoset on Flickr Gives a good sense…