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The New Wave Head-to-head comparison of Photoshop, iPhoto, Acorn, Pixelmator, and Graphic Converter. Personally, I can’t live w/o non-destructive editing, so I’m sticking with PS. (tags: software macintosh graphics photoshop acorn pixelmator iphoto) Green Zebra Coupon book for eco-hippie-friendly businesses in SF. (tags: sanfrancisco green environment coupons)…
Gamasutra - Game Design Essentials: 20 Open World Games ‘At the core of the open world game is consumption. Once a place is seen for the first time, it cannot be unseen and seen again. To an extent, the game is a maze, and once the whole thing is seen the game cannot be played the same way again.’ (tags: gamedesign retrogaming exploration lists) The Discovery Learning Center Presents: Serious Games…
I’ve moved to San Francisco.
Casual Game Publisher Treats Games Like Sitcoms ‘Putting ordinary folks in extraordinary situations worked for Friends, Seinfeld, and Frasier, and it works for Diner Dash, too…. “We’re the Norman Lear of games,” jokes Dinkin.’ I’d say they’re more like Carsey-Werner, but point taken. (tags: sitcom casualgames playfirst analogies) electro^plankton: Little Robot Is My Watch Robot! Watch! Want. (tags: gadgets watch robots gimme)…
Sex Advice from Video-Game Designers - Nerve.com orly? (tags: sex gamedesign advice) Marcel Marceau, Renowned Mime, Dies at 84 - New York Times ‘the wiry French mime who mostly performed as the chalk-faced Bip and did much to revive the art of pantomime, died Saturday in France. He was 84.’ (tags: marcel marceau mime theater obituaries)…
Stephen Fry Stephen Fry has a blog, is a big phone geek. If you imagine the post being read out loud in Fry’s voice, it instantly becomes the best blog ever. (tags: weblogs stephenfry iphone) Where To Watch Network TV Online « NewTeeVee Handy cheat sheet, esp. since I might be TV-less for a while. (tags: television network online video) WikiMatrix - Compare them all (tags: wikis comparison)…
LOLTHULHU (tags: lolcats meme chtulu lovecraft)…
The more I hear the phrase “user-generated content,” the more I’m convinced it’s doing more harm than good.
Official Google Blog: Our feature presentation Google Docs finally gets slides. (tags: slides google googledocs powerpoint) MUMMENSCHANZ: Homepage I’ll admit it: I unreservedly love this stuff. (tags: art dance performance surrealism) Metaplace - Hello, everyone, and welcome to Metaplace.com! Areae announces its project: “build anything, play everything, from anywhere.” (tags: areae virtualworlds mmorpg web2.0 ugc) TechCrunch40 Session 8: Entertainment for All Ages FlowPlay (casual games + avatars), Areae’s Metaplace (DIY VWs),…
LastGraph Renders a fancy graph of your Last.FM history. (tags: last.fm web2.0 visualization graphs music) WoWInterface Downloads : Hello Kitty Island Adventure If I ever start playing WoW again, I’m all over this UI mod. (tags: worldofwarcraft ui mods hellokitty) Consumer Consequences | Sustainability Coverage From American Public Media Quiz game sponsored by APM. How many earths does it take to support your (profligate) lifestyle? (tags: seriousgames environment sustainability quiz) Palette…
We Make Holes In Teeth: AGDC 2007: My talk notes and slides (tags: conference agdc slides narrative flow)…
Microsoft and Sun Expand Strategic Alliance: Sun to become Windows Server OEM and companies to collaborate on cross-platform virtualization. Brr, it’s pretty cold down here in hell. But hey, those pigs are so cute up there in the air! (tags: sun microsoft computers) A Bill of Rights for Users of the Social Web « Open Social Web Asserting users’ rights of control, ownership, and freedom over their own data. (tags: web2.0…
The Morning News - Still Life Photos by Martin Klimas of little ceramic figures, taken at the instant they’re dropped and hit the ground. (tags: photography art martialarts broken motion) T=Machine » AGDC 2007: report for Web 2.0 + Games meetup If you want to see a random picture of me making a dorky face, this is your chance. (tags: narcissism conference agdc halcyon photos) Games » Bloxorz Nicely produced block-tumbling…
disambiguity - » dConstruct - Collaboration, Creativity & Consensus In User Experience Design Workshop ‘was really interested in the short discussion we had in our workshop about the importance of fun in project work. There was more or less a consensus amongst us that fun was more than just, well, fun.’ (tags: conference design dconstruct creativity fun workingplay) One more reason to buy an iPhone - MovableType.org - Home for the…
GrandPerspective du (1) as a tree map. (tags: macintosh osx treemap disk) AGDC Keynote over @ Sulka’s Game (tags: agdc sulka haro habbo slides virtualworlds)…
Om Nom Nom Nom meme o’ the day. OK, meme o’ a couple of weeks ago. (tags: meme omnomnom photoshop humor images) Warner Bros. T-Works To Offer Online Video, Gaming, Virtual World Featuring Cartoon Icons Videos, virtual worlds, avatars, the whole shebang. (tags: video virtualworlds warnerbros animation) Level Up : Nintendo President Satoru Iwata Takes a Victory Lap, Humbly, With Level Up ‘Nintendo’s next obstacle is to not lose its internal…
While everyone was talking about how everyone’s talking about Web 2.0 and games, not very many people were actually talking about Web 2.0 and games.
Ernest W. Adams - The No Twinkie Database! Game design anti-patterns (tags: gamedesign antipatterns patterns petpeeves)…
Saving Our History Before It’s Gone « Warren Spector’s blog ‘The fact is that the history of the videogame business is being written every day and, sadly, being lost just about as quickly.’ (tags: archives history games retrogaming) Welcome to Bassuke.com, Home of the Ukulele Bass The more obscure the instrument, the more likely it is that there’s a whole site devoted to it. That is why I love the WWW….
brandnamepencils.com // Bob Truby’s Brand Name Pencils (tags: pencils things collection) Gelflog - What Games Can Humans Still Win? Quick survey of the state of AI w/r/t Connect 4, Backgammon, Go, etc. (tags: games boardgames ai)…
Having barely recovered from my last, laptop-less, cross-country cruise, I already have to start packing for this week’s Austin GDC.
Today’s most beautiful video: Face Training - Joystiq At last, a game that feeds my inner narcissist. (tags: nintendo ds face training narcissism) Designer-Notes: 8 Things Not To Do… (Part I) 1. Hard-core game conventions; 2. Repetitive interface tasks [yes!] 3. Limited play variety; 4. Too much complexity. (tags: gamedesign lists design usability) Designer-Notes: 8 Things Not To Do… (Part II) 5. Hidden code/data; 6. Anti-piracy paranoia; 7. Black box mechanics;…