The Little Things: Super Mario Galaxy.
I am apparently so easily amused that you don’t even need to give me a game to make me happy — a good UI is good enough for me.
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I am apparently so easily amused that you don’t even need to give me a game to make me happy — a good UI is good enough for me.
Heroine Sheik » Blog Archive » Five Questions with Amber Rhea Interview w/ the organizer of the upcoming Sex 2.0 conf: ‘I wanted to create a space to celebrate all the amazing, awesome stuff women are doing online that isn’t getting nearly enough positive attention.’ (tags: rhea interviews sexuality gender unconference) 2007 Logo Trends Helixes, bands, dots, crests, vines, lighting, optical illusions, vinyl toy-ish mascots. (tags: logos 2007 trends graphic design)…
Terraminds twitter search Another Twitter searcher. (tags: twitter search)…
Futuristic Play by Andrew Chen: 5 ways to break past the San Francisco echo-chamber ‘When everyone here talks about this stuff, how do you keep yourself from falling into the trap of building products for a niche tech audience?’ (tags: sanfrancisco siliconvalley technology culture) The Year of Them - Person of the Year 2007 - TIME ‘If 2006 was the year of You, 2007 was the year of Them. Big media…
A few words with Jack Tramiel and the Commodore 64 gang - A+E Interactive: Your Bay Area hangout for gaming, music, movies, culture - Profile of Commodore’s former head, commemorating the C64’s 25th anniversary. (tags: commodore64 tramiel interviews) adaptive path » sketchboards: discover better + faster ux solutions ‘Unlike the process that results from wireframe-based design, the sketchboard quickly performs iterations on many possible solutions and then singles out the best…
The Casual Collective Games site by the makers of Desktop Tower Defense and Flash Element TD. (tags: casualgames desktop towerdefense multiplayer)…
MTV and Jerry Bruckheimer team up on video game venture - A+E Interactive: Your Bay Area hangout for gaming, music, movies, culture - The headline really says it all: games no longer belong to the pimply-faced nerds of the world. (tags: mtv bruckheimer gamesbiz)…
I think I’m just going to have to accept that it’s one of those great American institutions that I can’t quite manage to wring much enjoyment out of, like football and Manifest Destiny.
Facebook, the Place People Go to Meet Other Scrabble Players - New York Times NYT on Scrabulous. (tags: scrabble scrabulous boardgames onlinegames facebook) Handmade 2.0 - New York Times NYT profile of Etsy, craft culture, and the tensions between markets and ideals. (tags: etsy craft diy business)…
Classic Arcade Sounds Arcade machines captured on a portable tape recorder from 1982-88. (tags: nostalgia arcade field recording retrogaming sound)…
Worlds In Motion - Ondrejka Leaves Linden Rumors of a rift between Rosedale and Ondrejka. (tags: gamedev secondlife lindenlabs ondrejka rosedale gossip) The Real History and Origin of Woot and w00t M-W’s word of the year can only be reliably traced back to 1993 as a club chant (“Whoot, there it is”). (tags: words woot w00t etymology) Mo’s Bacon Bar Bacon and chocolate? Yummy? Scary? I don’t know how I should…
BBC NEWS | Technology | ‘Exodus’ to virtual worlds predicted ‘there will be a group of people that spends all their lives [in VWs]…. “We have to ask ourselves, how exciting is the game of life for most people out there?” he said.’ (tags: virtualworlds castronova orly hype) PlayStation.Blog » Things That Go PON In The Night Patapon, upcoming game featuring art by Rolito… interesting. (tags: rolito patapon) Women Working in…
There’s a very brief interview with me in the fall issue of my alma mater’s alumni magazine, the Carleton Voice.
Kokoromi Collective - Experiment! Montreal-based art-game collective. (tags: design art gamedesign) Level Up : Now Who’s Being Naive, Kay? Or, Reflections on the Fundamental Contempt In Which the Enthusiast Press Is Held By Publishers—And Its Own Employers N’Gai Croal despairs for the enthusiast press. (tags: journalism games advertising ethics gerstmann)…
Gamasutra - Majesco, IREM Detail PSP Board Game Conversion Blokus Portable I’m not sure how 16-way multiplayer is supposed to work, but I’m excited anyway. (tags: boardgames psp blokus majesco irem) Comparison shows significant edits to Gerstmann’s Kane & Lynch review - Joystiq ‘An archived version of the review… shows that, while the review’s overall determination remained the same, significant changes were made to its tone and focus.’ (tags: gamespot cnet…
Interview: Super Mario Galaxy Director On Sneaking Stories Past Miyamoto | Game | Life from Wired.com Yoshiaki Koizumi: ‘[Miyamoto] may be intentionally vague just to spur thought…. He’s always wanted to give far more abstract answers rather than clear answers. My role is to cut down that abstraction.’ (tags: yoshiaki koizumi mario nintendo miyamoto gamedesign) Riverfold Software - Wii Transfer ‘share your movies, music, and pictures directly to your Nintendo Wii…
apophenia: Six Apart sells LiveJournal. Baroo?? SixApart never really “got” LJ communities, sells it off to Russian company SUP. (tags: livejournal weblogging community socialsoftware sixapart) Yanksfan vs Soxfan: Thou Shalt Not “Suck My Ass” ‘We would not normally print the off-color language you see above, but in this case… it is excerpted from an official league document from the year 1897, a directive intended to eradicate swearing in baseball.’ (tags: baseball…
Activision, Vivendi Games Merging To Create Activision Blizzard Warcraft and Guitar Hero combine forces to knock EA off the 3rd-party publisher perch. (tags: activision vivendi blizzard mergers gamedev)…
Do you ever say, “MySpace is sooo ugly?” This blog’s for you… MySpace and Geocities are like scrapbooking: mocked by snobs as ugly, but they’re what most actual people are into. (tags: myspace socialmedia scrapbooking web2.0 elitism culture)…
Hooray, NaBloPoMo is over!
APERTURE LABORATORY HOLIDAY GREETING CARDS “Assume the Holiday Escort Submission Position this season!” (tags: cards holidays portal merchandising) High Scores Matter To Game Makers, Too - WSJ.com The impact of Metacritic and GameRankings on games (and their publishers’ stocks), featuring Marc Doyle, Metacritic’s games editor. (tags: criticism scores marc doyle metacritic gamerankings aggregation)…