links for 2008-02-29
Obsolete Skills: Main/Home Page Skills we no longer use: Adjusting rabbit ears on a TV, open a can with a church key, using a slide rule, using Kermit for file transfer, etc. (tags: wikis skill culture)…
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Obsolete Skills: Main/Home Page Skills we no longer use: Adjusting rabbit ears on a TV, open a can with a church key, using a slide rule, using Kermit for file transfer, etc. (tags: wikis skill culture)…
LEGO SERIOUS PLAY - THE ESSENCE LEGO as a tool for management consulting? (tags: seriousgames workingplay lego)…
EA-Land The Sims Online repurposed with free-to-play access. (tags: mmorpg sims electronicarts) The Escapist : The Game Design Game ‘Design, like play, always feels most natural and fun when you’re with others. Just as a move in a game influences the next, so too does the designers’ back-and-forth interaction influence the outcome of game design.’ (tags: gamedesign workingplay collaboration creativity) Waxy.org: ForumWarz Postmortem: Interviewing the Game’s Creators ForumWarz sounds appalling, but…
Welcome to del.ishli.st! Pulls del.icio.us entries tagged with “wishlist” to create a list of things you want. (tags: want del.icio.us tagging) StrawPoll—Tiny polls in 140 characters or less Daily polls in Twitter. (tags: twitter polls quizzes) Splashup Paint program in a browser. (tags: graphics flash) Online Office, Word Processor, Spreadsheet, Presentation, CRM and more Browser-based office suite. (tags: browser productivity) Botanicalls Twitter DIY Hook a moisture sensor up to your plant,…
garfield minus garfield ‘Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolor disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life?’ (tags: garfield comics remix deconstruction) Sorry, Boys, This Is Our Domain - New York Times ‘a study published in December by [Pew] found that among Web users ages 12 to 17, significantly more girls than boys…
Notes from the end of GDC 2008.
Star Trek - Video Episodes on CBS.com All of ST:TOS online! (tags: startrek cbs video) ** THE KING OF GAMES ** Retrogame-themed T-shirts. (tags: retrogaming tshirts clothing)…
Dictionary Evangelist: Semicolon Appreciation Society Semicolons are awesome; they’re so much less severe than a full stop. (tags: semicolon punctuation grammar) Dashboard • Raptr Facebookish news feed for the PC games you play. (tags: socialsoftware games) Gamestar Mechanic ‘a game designed to teach young people about game design, with the emphasis on design, not programming. The goal is to help young people—gamers and nongamers—learn what it is like to think about…
Brain dumps from Thursday at GDC.
Game Empathy Katherine Isbister’s blog on empathy in games. (tags: isbister gamestudies emotion) MGS User Research ‘Their mission is to improve games with consumer feedback using controlled research methods.’ (tags: microsoft usability research usercentered) CJR: Games in Palestine ‘Global Conflicts: Palestine is the first “serious game” in which you play as a journalist.’ (tags: seriousgames journalism israel palestine)…
Notes from the first day at GDC.
Software by Miller Puckette home page for Pd, a visual music scripting language (tags: pd music programming) The Netflix Community Semi-official Ning community for Netflix users. (tags: netflix movies ning networks)…
Project Horseshoe, 2007, report Emphasizing experience and emotion over narrative or numbers. (tags: horseshoe gamedesign whitepaper)…
GDC is this week, and I’m looking forward to taking a few days off to go geek out at lectures, chat with colleagues, and generally do something other than work.
Fx Console: [ Gadget series ] Papercraft models of PS3, DS, iPhone, Atari 2600, etc. Not only are the gadgets themselves perfect, they even have papercrafted packaging. (tags: paper craft gadgets)…
On Leaving Yahoo… : Elatable | Bradley Horowitz Yahoo’s (former) VP of Adv. Dev. leaves a love note to Y! as he moves over to Google. (tags: horowitz yahoo)…
I spend a lot of my work days doing both design and programming, which is fine, except that the two disciplines are very different. In fact, they’re downright contradictory at times.
Star Wars: The Clone Wars | Star Wars: The Clone Wars In Theaters and on Television in 2008 SW animnated series on Cartoon Network, featuring Anakin and a sidekick during the Clone Wars. Didn’t the Tartakovsky series already cover that period? (tags: cartoon starwars television) Level Up : Exclusive: Will Wright Gives Level Up the Scoop On Why Spore Is Taking So Long to Get Right—And Why It Will Be Worth…
Heroine Sheik » Blog Archive » The Sex & Gender in Video Games Reading List (tags: bibliography gender sex gamestudies)…
The Dead Parrot Society: Cento, poetry’s own mashup Poems constructed out of lines from other poems. (tags: poetry form cento) Twins Geek: Nathan More than his Saves A concise(-ish) explanation of Win Probability Added, why it’s an infinitely better stat than saves, and why Joe Nathan is rad no matter how you measure it. (tags: baseball twins nathan pitching wpa stats)…
Interview: Indie MMO Lila Dreams’ Designer | Game | Life from Wired.com (tags: liladreams mmorpg kongregate)…
Polaroid shutting 2 Mass. facilities, laying off 150 - The Boston Globe Only about a year’s worth of polaroid film left. (tags: polaroid film photography) Sega Sammy Cuts 400 Jobs, 80 Arcades | Game | Life from Wired.com Pachinko business is down due to heavier regulation in Japan. (tags: sega layoffs pachinko)…
Better Than Free Things that make things worth paying for rather than copying: Immediacy, Personalization, Interpretation, Authenticity, Accessibility, Embodiment, Patronage, Findability. (tags: business copyright free pay)…
Atarigames.com News and Updates Archive of images, docs, memos from Atari’s coin-op division. (tags: atari retrogaming history archives arcade)…
Gamasutra - Opinion: Why Your Game Studio Should Practice ‘Shared Design’ Not a great article, but an idea worth thinking about. (tags: gamedesign organization development) primaries.xml Google, Twitter, and Twittervision team up to track the Super Tuesday primaries. (tags: google googlemaps twitter maps voting primaries)…
apophenia: just because we can, doesn’t mean we should Open social graphs as a form of online social darwinism? (tags: boyd graph socialnetworking class privacy) McKie back on the court | Philadelphia Inquirer | 02/02/2008 76ers asst coach Aaron McKie still had a contract on the books in LA. The Lakers traded that contract to Memphis, so McKie will be moving to the Grizzlies as a player/coach. (tags: mckie 76ers lakers…
Real-time Twitter Search - Tweet Scan Yet another Twitter search tool. (tags: twitter search) jwz - Happy Groundhog Day! Bill Murray relived February 2 for at least four years. (tags: movies groundhog day loops time) Super Bowl Ads Not the most inspiring batch. My favorite was the fighting parade balloons. (tags: superbowl commercials video) “Yes We Can” Obama’s New Hampshire speech remixed into a celebrianthem. (tags: president obama will.i.am songs celebrity)…
Microsoft makes $44.6 Billion Bid for Yahoo it’s the end of the world as we know it! *chickenlittle* (tags: omg yahoo microsoft mergers) 5ives » Five subtle changes in the event that Microsoft acquires Yahoo! (tags: microsoft yahoo mergers) Metaplace live developer chat today - Massively liveblog of Metaplace’s live kinda-sorta debut. (tags: metaplace chat virtualworlds) Gamasutra - Understanding The Fun of Super Mario Galaxy Sirlin does a Lazzaroan critique of…
First Look: PaRappa Creators’ Wii Game | Game | Life from Wired.com A few of Greenblat’s character concepts for Major Minor’s Majestic March. (tags: greenblat nanaonsha wii art) Dr. Kawashima Turns Down Brain Age Royalties | Game | Life from Wired.com ‘The rules of Kawashima’s employer, Tohoku University, state that Kawashima is entitled to half the royalties generated by the games’ sales —currently in the neighborhood of $22 million— but Kawashima…