links for 2008-06-29
Burtt Talks WALL-E “And with WALL-E, you’ve got a sound associated with every character — a voice or a tone and a sound effect — so it becomes very busy. ” (tags: sounddesign burtt interviews walle)…
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Burtt Talks WALL-E “And with WALL-E, you’ve got a sound associated with every character — a voice or a tone and a sound effect — so it becomes very busy. ” (tags: sounddesign burtt interviews walle)…
Q&A: 90 Minutes With Miyamoto, Nintendo’s Master of Amusement | Game | Life from Wired.com It kind of goes without saying, but Miyamoto’s a really smart guy. (tags: miyamoto interviews)…
IMDb Resume for Troy McClure (tags: characters mcclure simpsons resume cv) Game/AI: Interviewing AI Developers Big list of questions you might (should?) encounter when interviewing for an AI job. (tags: ai gamedev questions lists interviews) Worlds In Motion - Habbo Reaches 100 Million Registered Avatars ‘Habbo currently receives 10 million monthly visitors worldwide. In just the past six months, the community has grown by nearly 20 million registered new users.’ (tags:…
dawn of politics ii: what if john mccain, hillary clinton, and barack obama were factions in the rts game warhammer 40K dawn of war? | Popehat Bizarre, yet surprisingly cogent rundown of the 2008 primaries, described as an especially grueling RTS match. (tags: rts presidency politics analogy)…
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Lit 101 Class in Three Lines or Less. (tags: books parody literature short)…
Gamasutra - Analysis: What VGChartz Does (And Doesn’t) Do For The Game Biz ‘VGChartz is staffed by amateurs working in their spare time to estimate sales, and while they are perfectly smart, they are much closer to the SimExchange model of estimation than the Media Create method.’ (tags: gamesnews vgchartz retail sales estimates)…
Click, clip and save Gaming coupons: ‘Deal hunters… find stores that double or triple the value of coupons, “stack” store deals with manufacturer’s coupons and take advantage of loyalty card programs.’ (tags: shopping economics workingplay coupons) Rumours Of Fire Hose Denied: Pyro’s A Lady | Rock, Paper, Shotgun TF2’s Pyro implied to be a woman. The new Samus? Is there a middle ground for female game characters, between DOA bikinis and…
Star Wars Crawl - Make a custom Star Wars Intro (tags: starwars titles generator)…
The Webtender: Drinking Games. (tags: drinking games lists rules seriousgames)…
MTV Multiplayer » Ninjas Invade ‘Desktop Tower Defense’ in ‘Ninjatown’ Tower defense and plush ninjas on the DS? Yes, please. (tags: ninja towerdefense ds) Chart Toppers: Sega Turning Iron Man to Gold (tags: ironman sega secretlevel comics licenses)…
Objet de Carte (tags: cards patterns) How to Live With Just 100 Things - TIME “Goal-oriented minimalism” (tags: consumption organization austerity) Epistemic Games ‘epistemic games revolutionize the ongoing debate about the pros and cons of digital learning to show the future of education in the digital age.’ (tags: learning seriousgames workingplay) A List Apart: Articles: Faux Absolute Positioning CSS positioning method o’ the day. (tags: css webdesign) The Rage Diaries: Hwæt!…
The Serious Leisure Perspective ‘The systematic pursuit of an amateur, hobbyist, or volunteer core activity that is highly substantial, interesting, and fulfilling and where… participants find a career in acquiring and expressing… its special skills, knowledge, and experience.’ (tags: hobby theory recreation) The Movie Review: ‘The Happening’ Christopher Orr disliked The Happening so much that his review is just a list of spoilers, ‘which will enable you to marvel at its…
Television - The Man Behind the New ‘Doctor Who,’ Changing British TV - NYTimes.com Profile of RTD, and how he’s brought Doctor Who and sexuality into the mainstream of British TV. (tags: davies doctorwho gender sexuality television)…
Mystery on Fifth Avenue - NYTimes.com A designer runs amok, turns a family’s home into an exquisite scavenger hunt. (tags: apartment gamedesign scavenger puzzles architecture) Social Networking Gets a Sanity Check - GigaOM ‘there are numbers out from comScore that indicate plateauing growth for the big two…. And these just might be the tip of the iceberg, for there are way too many me-too networks out there failing to find the…
Plain Text » Blog Archive » Work is Depressing Google cache of a Flagship (Hellgate: London) programmer’s post-live blues. (tags: gamedev cynicism turnover working)…
Spore (tags: spore games) Bandai Pippin Museum & Archive Once upon a time, Apple made a game console. (tags: consoles apple pippin bandai)…
Cowboy Programming » Measuring Responsiveness in Video Games (tags: gamedev measurement testing metrics) ‘Konami Code’ Appears in Google Reader | Game | Life from Wired.com Hee! (tags: google reader eastereggs konami)…
Google [Good] News What the headlines on Google News might look like if the world didn’t suck: “Childhood obesity rates drop sharply… As crime rates fall, more kids are playing outside…” (tags: parody news google optimism) Hillary Clinton, 2008 presidential election, concession | Salon Life ‘Clinton behaved with the kind of naked drive and aggression and mercilessness we revere in, for example, football greats, wrestling stars and military heroes.’ (tags: clinton…
Official Google Blog: One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish Google on their new little-g favicon. (tags: google favicon icon graphic logos)…
Gamasutra - Product Dev VP Hirschmann Leaves LucasArts, Staff Downsized “A LucasArts representative has confirmed to Gamasutra that the company did see a June 5th downsizing, and the departure of product development VP Peter Hirschmann.” (tags: lucasarts gamedev layoffs)…
MPR: News Cut: Just get in line Pics from the 1.5 mile-long line in St. Paul to see Obama clinch the nomination. (tags: obama twincities nomination lines crowds) Sandra Day O’Connor: Game Designer | Game | Life from Wired.com O’Connor believes that America’s youth aren’t learning enough about civics, and thinks that the educational power of videogames is just the thing to change that. (tags: oconnor judiciary education seriousgames)…
EveryBlock San Francisco: San Francisco local news and public records Hyperlocal news aggregator. (tags: local sanfrancisco news hyperlocal)…
Gametrailers.com - Golden Axe: Beast Rider - World Exclusive Debut Trailer HD (tags: goldenaxe trailers my.work) goosh.org - the unofficial google shell. In-browser CLI to Google. Why? Why not? (tags: google commandline shell)…
TCM RACE & HOLLYWOOD: ASIAN IMAGES ON FILM ‘TCM looks at Hollywood’s portrayal of Asians on the screen in a 35-film retrospective.’ (tags: film asian race) WTF?! World of Warcraft clone, done as a Flash sidescroller. (tags: worldofwarcraft flashgames parody)…