links for 2008-07-02
Obama’s sister helps reach out to Asian-Americans - Yahoo! News Obama’s half-sister is half-Indonesian, her husband is Chinese-Canadian. (tags: obama family race campaign)…
Obama’s sister helps reach out to Asian-Americans - Yahoo! News Obama’s half-sister is half-Indonesian, her husband is Chinese-Canadian. (tags: obama family race campaign)…
Pacman source Assembler code for Pac-Man. (tags: pacman assembler code) Gamasutra - Spanking Death: Ron Gilbert Goes Episodic… And Loves It ‘It’s like every time [publishers] go to the play, they swing for the fences. And being able to hit like a single or a double is just beyond their comprehension, in a way.’ (tags: gamedev gilbert interviews) Inside Neopets Creators’ Ambitious New MMO | Game | Life from Wired.com ‘Imagine…
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)…
Fidgit SciFi branches out into games reviews, Tom Chick editing the site. (tags: scifi games reviews) Portland Journal - As Portland Changes, Blacks and Whites Talk It Over - NYTimes.com Gentrification in NE PDX leads to black/white tension. (tags: portland gentrification urban race) MPR: News Cut: Boring architecture (cont’d) ‘nominees for the most unimaginative and boring architecture in the Twin Cities.’ (tags: architecture twincities) Paul Gravett: Article - China Earthquake Stories…
Top Ten Classes In MMOs « Broken Toys Today’s dose of game industry cynicism. (tags: cynicism gamedev mmorpg working) Moot Point » Valentino & Family Guy ‘The reason Family Guy is so popular is the same reason that torture porn movies make so much money: there’s no clear agenda they’re pushing, the spectacle is in the offensiveness.’ (tags: familyguy television humor offense) Harvey Korman of ‘Burnett Show’ Dies at 81 -…
Young New Yorkers Make a Brand New Start of It, on the Cheap - NYTimes.com “To live like a human being on the salary that I make is very difficult in this city…. You’ve got to forget about brands, you’ve got to forget about, you know, what your mom made you growing up, and take what’s out there.” (tags: newyork money spending frugal) Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes…
GameSetWatch - Preventing Teen Dating Violence - The Game Competition Results (tags: seriousgames abuse teens dating)…
Steering Behaviors For Autonomous Characters (tags: ai navigation flocking) AIWisdom.com - Game Articles & Research (tags: ai gamedev) Polyworld Evolutionary ALife simulator: ‘organisms reproduce sexually, fight and kill and eat each other, eat the food that grows throughout the world, and either develop successful strategies for survival or die.’ (tags: alife ai evolution simulation) BIGGEST DRAWING IN THE WORLD Drawing a circumnavigatory self-portrait with help from a GPS tracker and an…
Does Gaming’s Future Depend on Wii Fit? news from 1UP.com Miyamoto touched on some of these things in his GDC keynote a while back: making the world safe for core gamers depends on making games part of our overall culture. (tags: games culture miyamoto interviews play) What Makes Gaming Social? - GigaOM Synchronous vs. asynchronous online gaming. (tags: onlinegames socialsoftware mmorpg) GameSetWatch - Opinion: Why EA, The Industry Shouldn’t Rely On…
You Can’t Fake Quality, But That Never Stops Them from Trying (Magical Wasteland) Today’s dose of cynicism and despair. (tags: gamedev cynicism)…
cubeecraft.com (tags: paper characters toys) Bandsintown :: Search | Share | Discover Live Music Does what it says on the tin. (tags: music performance local) Ariel Waldman » Blog Archive » Twitter refuses to uphold Terms of Service (tags: twitter griefing socialnetworking) Gamasutra - Microsoft To Delist Low-Ranking XBLA Titles, Raise Size Limit Titles with lower than 65 on Metacritic and less than 6% trial conversion to be dropped. (tags: xbla…
Why Zappos Pays New Employees to Quit—And You Should Too - Harvard Business Online’s Bill Taylor After 1 week of a 4-week training period, Zappos offers new customer service reps a $1K bonus to *quit*, in the interest of weeding out not-really-into-it employees. (tags: zappos working engagement) WHEN TWITTER IS DOWN (tags: singleservingsites twitter)…
Announcing the Totally Unofficial Build a Better Twitter Contest | Crave : The gadget blog (tags: twitter scale webapps) Boids (Flocks, Herds, and Schools: a Distributed Behavioral Model) The flockiest of flocking behaviors. (tags: flocking ai alife)…
Welcome to the new Sodaplay | sodaplay.com Now with more sticks and springs than ever. (tags: alife animation) Netflix’s Movie Box Launches With Roku; Selection Still Limited; Buys Stake in Roku | paidContent.org Hm, streaming Netflix box, you say? Sounds tempting. (tags: netflix video streaming rental)…
Who Will Be Hillary Clinton’s Successor? - New York Times Imagining a successful woman presidential candidate. By this article’s math, Hillary is the best we’re going to see for a good long while. (tags: gender politics women profiling) Avant Game: The dark side of coming out to play ‘a good reminder of how incredibly powerful play is, and how much momentum a live game can take on, and how hard it…
Golden Axe: Beast Rider First Look (tags: goldenaxe my.work previews) IGN: Golden Axe: Beast Rider Preview (tags: goldenaxe my.work previews) Golden Axe: Beast Rider Preview (Xbox 360) “dismembermy”? (tags: goldenaxe my.work previews) Golden Axe: Beast Rider impressions - Joystiq (tags: goldenaxe my.work previews) Osborne effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ‘When a company’s revelation of information about future products results in customers not purchasing (or delaying purchases of) the current offering.’…
Gamasutra - Sega, PlatinumGames Partner For Four-Title Deal Inaba (Okami), Kouno (Steel Battalion), Kamiya (DMC and Viewtiful Joe), and Mikami (RE) to develop titles. (tags: sega gamedev) State Supreme Court says same-sex couples have right to marry ‘In a 4-3 decision, the justices said the state’s ban on same-sex marriage violates the “fundamental constitutional right to form a family relationship.”’ (tags: lgbt marriage sanfrancisco california)…
Robert Rauschenberg, American Artist, Dies at 82 - New York Times ‘A painter, photographer, printmaker, choreographer, onstage performer, set designer and, in later years, even a composer, Mr. Rauschenberg defied the traditional idea that an artist stick to one medium or style.’ (tags: art obituaries rauschenberg modernism) gwap.com - Home Games With a Purpose: new home for the ESP Game, etc. (tags: vonahn workingplay seriousgames crowdsourcing)…
‘t Is Goud - WalletCards on my iPhone “store” membership cards on your iPhone by scanning them into a photo album. (tags: iphone cards)…
MPR: Budget Hero (tags: seriousgames budget mpr apm) Gamasutra - Content Kings: Square Enix’s Shiraishi And Tsuchida On WiiWare And Risk Mitigating risk — both market-wise and creatively — by spreading it across a portfolio of smaller, more diverse games. (tags: squareenix gamedev risk)…
‘Mad Pride’ Fights a Stigma - New York Times ‘Just as gay-rights activists reclaimed the word queer…, these advocates proudly call themselves mad; they say their conditions do not preclude them from productive lives.’ (tags: madness psychology health) Lexicographical Longing - Online Dictionaries - The Medium - Virginia Heffernan - New York Times OED abandons print entirely. (tags: words oed print books)…
Ugly Overload: Crab Comparison Coconut crabs ‘get up to 4 kg in weight, have enormous legspans, live for 30 - 60 years, and are capable of splitting coconuts with their pinchers.’ (tags: crab animals size) A Close Look at the Colossal Squid 1000 lb, 26’ long. (tags: animals size squid) Mistake by the Lake Sporting Times: Even You, Dorn WPA analysis of the Indians/Yankees one-game playoff in Major League. Even sabermetricians…
Fishki.Net - Воплощение детских рисунков глазами фотографов (34 картинки) | Фишкина Картинка Children’s drawings interpreted by photographers. (tags: photography drawing children whimsy) RealNetworks To Spin Off Its Game Business; May Do An IPO Of The New Company | paidContent.org (tags: business realnetworks casualgames spinoff) Is the Fashion Press to Blame? » Manolo’s Shoe Blog ‘much of that which is sent down the runway is unwearable by anyone other than the 14-year-old…
San Francisco Sunset District Events Calendar (tags: sanfrancisco calendar sunset neighborhoods) Moot Point » Fortuitous Reading Using Gossip Girls to illustrate Foucault. Or maybe the other way around. (tags: foucault gossipgirls cw television sexuality discourse) Sundance Channel : Green Porno Isabella Rossellini illustrates the mating habits of various creatures. (tags: rossellini film mating animals) Two Families Grapple with Sons’ Gender Preferences : NPR ‘Because Ehrensaft sees transgenderism as akin to homosexuality,…
Minnesota Monitor:: Twin Cities community radio powers up KFAI gets a 900-watt transmitter, Radio K a 99-watt transmitter for FM. I miss MN radio. (tags: twincities radio kfai radiok) Flash Portal Now Real Portal | Game | Life from Wired.com We Make Stuff clones their clone of Portal using Portal. (tags: portal flashgames) Earnings: THQ Bombs, $35.3 Million Loss For ‘08; Percentage Of Rev From Mobile Games Drops | paidContent.org A…
Mockingbird - The Game Making Game (tags: gamedev remix diy)…
Keeping Promises ‘I’ve been amazed sometimes when I’ve realized that some four-page scene I’ve written actually plays better… as a one-page scene. You don’t always lose when you cut.’ (tags: espenson writing pacing) ESPN - Well-traveled Franco finally calls it quits after 23 years - MLB 49-yo infielder played 23 seasons in the majors, was the oldest to hit a HR (48). (tags: franco baseball age) XSketch - Word Sketch Game…
Dashing Tweeds (tags: tweed fashion clothing fabric)…
Richard Bartle: Gamers have won the battle against the censors | Technology | guardian.co.uk ‘Half the UK population has grown up playing computer games. They aren’t addicted, they aren’t psychopathic killers, and they resent those boneheads – that’s you – who imply that they are addicted and are psychopathic killers.’ (tags: censorship demographics games bartle) iGoogle Artist Themes G commissions artists to make homepage themes. (tags: google art customization) Tweets -…
For a Pinball Survivor, the Game Isn’t Over - New York Times ‘Stern, which used to crank out 27,000 pinball machines each year, is down to around 10,000…. “You work at a pinball company,” he explained, grumpily, “you’re going to play a lot of pinball.”’ (tags: pinball arcade)…
Minnesota Twins - The Text Adventure - Twinkie Town (tags: twins interactivefiction baseball) twistori tracking emotions on twitter. (tags: twitter emotion aggregation)…
zefrank.com :: if the earth were a sandwich : find the opposite tool In case you’re wondering, “so where *would* I end up if I dug through the earth?” (tags: maps googlemaps opposites geography) Twitter Twerp Scan check follower/followee ratios to find the more obvious spambots. (tags: twitter spam)…
Disgruntled Real-Life ‘Sarah Marshalls’ Speak Out on Movie ‘“I was shocked to see all the billboards and posters that hated against me and people with my name. It’s just so bizarre.” So, Marshall decided to fire back, launching her own brand of signs proclaiming: “YOU SUCK JUDD APATOW.”’ (tags: signs film marshall names)…
Ice cream, soft heart ‘Until his death Thursday after a long battle with various illnesses, Sonny Siron, 81, was always here, in this, his neighborhood.’ (tags: minneapolis obituaries icecream)…
MTV Multiplayer » Majesco Actually Impressed With Wii Online Capabilities, Makes Breakthroughs Majesco/Budcat making a Wii game based on Kenta Cho’s Tumiki Fighters (rad), with player-created block-objects (awesome), shareable w/o friend codes (omg)! (tags: majesco ugc cho) TypeRacer Typing. Racing. Good times. (tags: race typing onlinegames)…
Mightygodking.com » Blog Archive » Fun From Yesterday! Fun with old 2600 box art. (tags: atari 2600 retrogaming covers)…
VGChartz.com | (tags: games sales statistics) New Wii Games Find a Big (but Stingy) Audience - New York Times A broader audience for Wii means a lower attach rate, but aren’t they still selling more units overall? (tags: nintendo wii sales) Citizen Space Coworking facility in South Park, SOMA, SF. (tags: sanfrancisco coworking office)…
SecretTweet.com - Post your secrets anonymously to Twitter taking ambient intimacy a little further. (tags: twitter confession) Social Gaming Summit 2008 (tags: conference socialsoftware gamedesign)…
Milliways: Infocom’s Unreleased Sequel to Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Waxy.org Baio uncovers juicy documents and prototypes from Infocom circa 1988-9. (tags: infocom retrogaming interactivefiction hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy)…
Jack McCallum: A new wave of clutch shooters - Jack McCallum - SI.com A lot of thinking goes into last-second plays. (tags: basketball strategy)…
Pixar’s Brad Bird on Fostering Innovation « FoundRead ‘The Quarterly: It sounds like you spend a fair amount of time thinking about the morale of your teams. Brad Bird: In my experience, the thing that has the most significant impact on a movie’s budget… is morale.’ (tags: film animation bird interviews leadership)…
Black Day for love, big day for noodles | Oddly Enough | Reuters April 14 is “Black Day” in S. Korea, where lonely hearts drown their sorrows in ja-jang-myun. (tags: food love holidays korea noodles) Fake names tell a story, too - Baby Name Wizard Blog - Discussing Trends in Baby Names The names people give their children — or the fake names that get assigned to them during censuses —…
The Rather Difficult Font Game (tags: fonts type quiz)…
Tweet Clouds “Going” and “Trying” are my most used words. I’m on the move! (tags: twitter clouds words) Matzo Sells Like Hotcakes - New York Times ‘There’s the matzo, the last link… that many Jews have with the world of their fathers. And there’s the brave new world of… salmon primavera, chicken in balsamic cherry sauce and falafel pizza.’ (tags: food tradition kosher) someecards.com | ecards for when you care enough…
Martijn Hendriks » Give Us Today Our Daily Terror, video stills ‘Exact copy of Hitchcock’s 1963 film The Birds from which all birds have been removed.’ (tags: movies art hitchcock birds imaging) tedmosbyisajerk.com Featuring a 20-minute song of pure psycho awesome. How I Met Your Mother is the hardest working sitcom around. (tags: howimetyourmother tv songs dating) ある折紙創作家の頁 / folders.jp Origami by Satoshi Kamiya. (tags: origami japanese)…
eggbeater: Chef Owners Who Work The Line. ‘“Stand over here, I’m going to show you how to put out this table, I’m going to show you how to cook, how to work like a team, how to put out just one ticket.” And then he did.’ (tags: cooking restaurant teamwork leadership)…
Twubble Twitter network scanning, similar to FB’s “People you may know” feature. (tags: twitter social network) WoW Forums -> Got Killed by an AFK Warlock Stuff like this really makes me miss WoW. (tags: worldofwarcraft threads pvp) Adobe TV Oodles of instructional videos covering Adobe’s whole product suite. (tags: adobe photoshop video tutorials)…
TwitterLocal Search for tweets in a geographic area. (tags: twitter geography local) Mazapán.se - You Have To Burn The Rope What it says on the tin. Catchy song at the end. (tags: literal simple games parody songs) In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop - New York Times “they profess a love of the nonstop action… At the same time, some are starting to wonder if something…
Ninja teens or ninja teams? Ask the Chinese! | Sinosplice: Life in China Interpreting the TMNT theme via its Chinese translation. (tags: cartoons language chinese lyrics) Ramblings of a colorblind gamer. ‘To me, there is only the blue streak and then three other ball trails of identical color which I cannot, in my wildest dreams, hope to differentiate between.’ (tags: accessibility color usability gamedesign blind) [ws] Color Scheme Generator 2 Color…
Okami Art Buckets of original Okami concept art. (tags: okami concept art)…
favotter Track which of your twitter posts get favorited by others. (tags: twitter socialsoftware favorites)…
GraphJam: Pop culture for people in cubicles. Infographic/Excel chart humor. Still finding its legs. From the people who brought you icanhascheezburger. (tags: lolcats information charts humor) jwz - Happy Run Some Old Web Browsers Day! ‘In honor of the ten year anniversary of the Mozilla project, home.mcom.com, the Internet Web Site of the Mosaic Communications Corporation, is now back online.’ (tags: mosaic nostalgia internet browsers)…
Retro Arcade - a photoset on Flickr ‘Most of these pictures were taken from projected slides - rescued from the dumpster.’ (tags: photos arcade retrogaming)…
D-E-F-I-N-I-T-E-L-Y (tags: spelling words pedantic onepage) twitter.zappos.com Promoting yourself by tracking tweets about you. Clever. (tags: zappos shoes retail twitter)…
Posterchild’s Blade Diary - February 28th 2008 Matching Portals (w/ a Weighted Companion Cube stuck halfway between them) in Toronto. (tags: portal street art graffiti) Quotably Twitter conversation tracking. (tags: twitter communication)…
Down for everyone or just me? (tags: webapps simple) Previously On Lost Recaps of Lost in musical form. (tags: lost myspace parody)…
ze’s page :: zefrank.com: colorwar 2008 Explaining the colorwars meme on Twitter. (tags: color meme twitter flashmobs) Immersive Media Like QTVR, but in motion. (tags: video panoramic gis) We Tell Stories Penguin mashes up short stories, classics, ARGs, Google maps, and who knows what else. (tags: stories literature arg maps googlemaps)…
better world shopper Consumer goods companies, graded and ranked on human rights, environment, animal protection, community involvement, and social justice. Well organized. (tags: environment rights social products responsibility) Barack Obama’s Speech on Race - New York Times Transcript of Obama’s speech. (tags: obama presidency race transcript america) phatfusion : googleDrive Drive around the Google Map of London. (tags: maps hacks driving)…
Online Games by the Hundreds, With Tie-Ins - New York Times “What video is to TV, games are to the Web…. For us to be relevant to our audience, that is where we need to put our investment.” (tags: casualgames onlinegames advertising branding children) An easy way to differentiate characters: the list « Writing is writing ‘What’s great about this new method is it makes it easier to communicate and collaborate…
Tweviews ‘Tiny reviews on Twitter.’ (tags: twitter reviews writing) Forget burnout, boreout is the new office disease - Times Online ‘Many workers are so ill at ease in the office that they spend a large part of the day simulating work. That generates more negative stress than excessive working.’ (tags: working boredom productivity)…
FriendFeed Yet another lifestreamer/feed muxer. (tags: feeds lifestreaming rss)…
The Lost Ring ARG for the leadup to the 2008 Olympics. (tags: olympics arg)…
Siliconera » AQ Interactive turns the DS into a full synthesizer AQ and Korg bringing a stylus-controlled synth to the DS in July. Japan only, boo. (tags: nintendo ds synthesizers) Official Google Blog: YouTube finds its way into Spore Spore continues its slow incursion into every corner of my life, will include direct uploading to YouTube. (tags: spore video youtube) DadHacker » Blog Archive » Donkey Kong and Me Anecdotes from…
Tommy Westphall - A Multiverse Explored Through crossovers and references, 280 shows are connected to St. Elsewhere, the entire run of which was imagined by an autistic child. So is all of TV imagined? (More than it already is, that is.) (tags: television convergence intertextual) SF0 ‘SFZero is a Collaborative Production Game. Players build characters by completing tasks for their groups and increasing their Score. The goals of play include meeting…
What D&D Character Am I? I’m a ‘True Neutral Human Bard/Sorcerer (2nd/2nd Level)’, fwiw. Also: longest. quiz. evar. (tags: quizzes d&d characters)…
Our Favorite Typefaces of 2007 | Typographica Hotness. (tags: fonts 2007 bestof typography) Return to Quest Quiz: Tim Schafer - Joystiq Joystiq whimsically sends a faux-text-adventure puzzle out to a bunch of gamerati. Schafer turns the tables and plays the non-game, forcing Ludwig Kietzmann to play the part of the computer. (tags: interactivefiction schafer performance)…
A Little Sad Bartle dismantles a recent study on cross-gender gameplay. (tags: gender mmorpg research gamestudies)…
Today is the Day (tags: art styrofoam characters omg story) Announcement From The Founders - The Telefile Wing Chun, Sars, and Glark leaving TWoP. Say it ain’t so! (tags: television twop) Oolong Engine 3D engine for the iPhone. (tags: iphone 3d middleware)…
2008 Life. Love. Game Design Challenge sponsored by Jennifer Ann’s Group ‘Can you create a game about Teen Dating Violence… without using violence?’ (tags: flashgames teens contests gamedesign dating)…
Beware of Employees Tossing ‘Roses Where You Walk’ « FoundRead ‘While you feel you work for the company, they feel they work for you. Your goals are misaligned from the beginning and you both don’t even know it.’ (tags: management) Interview with “Project Runway’s” Chris March | AfterElton.com ‘If you talk about being gay it’s fine, if you don’t talk about being gay it’s fine. It’s like the real world should…
Cullect.com ‘The Most Shareable Feed Reader’ (tags: reader rss feeds)…
Audiosurf: Ride Your Music Match-3 game with levels/patterns generated from songs. (tags: music games indie procedural)…
The Golden Axe Resource, Death Adder’s Castle - Golden Axe Fan Art (tags: goldenaxe fandom) The Disappearance and Reappearance and Disappearance of the Player in Videogame Advertising ‘The ways in which videogame advertisements functioned to change the ways in which consumers thought about the home and the ways in which they could actively control the electronic media that made its way into the home.’ (tags: gamestudies advertising home) Wordy Birdie ‘a…
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…
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…
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)…
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)…
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)…
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)…
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…
Etsy :: The Storque :: Etsy News :: Etsy’s First Five Years Make expansion plans, get some investment capital, and *tell people what you’re doing.* Why don’t more companies do this? It probably helps that Etsy’s plans are sensible and straightforward. (tags: transparency etsy growth startup)…
Expert Page: Laura Bennett Project Runway 3’s Laura gives fashion advice in comic form, illustrated by Robert Best. (tags: project runway laura comics fashion) Yehuda: A Guide to Board and Card Games Based on Video Games (1971 to 2007) ‘the history of board and card games based on video games is not one of great games, with some improvements as of late.’ (tags: boardgames franchise games) Periodic Table Printmaking Project ‘Ninety-six…
Tweetmeme Tracking what’s wafting through the twittersphere right now. (tags: twitter meme networks)…
Facebook Apps On Any Website: Clever Move ‘Facebook announced Friday a new JavaScript client library that will allow Facebook apps to be displayed on any website.’ Now that’s interesting. (tags: facebook socialsoftware embedding widgets)…
Robot World News ‽ Ms. Pac-Man Plays Herself ‘Researchers have taught AI agents to play Ms. Pac-Man - and sometimes do it better than humans.’ (tags: ai pacman learning reinforcement) Turok Patch Removes Controversial Team-Kill Feature | Game | Life from Wired.com ‘The controversial feature in the upcoming Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 game Turok that rewards players for killing their teammates will be removed with a patch.’ Yikes, what a…
No Country for Old Arcades: Sunnyvale Golfland-Features-012308-32e93-gametap.com ‘Operators were much more willing to take a risk on something that may have been slow to recoup the loss, because the arcade scene was more active. “The way we purchase now is a lot different. We’ve had to become much more strategic.”’ (tags: arcades business) Home Page - Television Tropes & Idioms ‘a catalogue of the tricks of the trade for writing fiction….
Recycled Game Consoles Pen Good stuff. (tags: pen recycling consoles) Last.fm – the Blog · Free the Music ‘As of today, you can play full-length tracks and entire albums for free on the Last.fm website.’ A preview of their upcoming all-you-can-eat service. (tags: last.fm music subscriptions radio) Emigre Essays Repostings of essays from Emigre’s old magazine. (tags: emigre typography graphic design) MTV Multiplayer » When Are You Old Enough For Video…
Heath Ledger, Actor, Is Found Dead at 28 - New York Times (tags: obituaries heath ledger actors suicide)…
Campaign Reporting in Under 140 Taps - New York Times ‘Some might consider the idea of a barrage of text-messaged snippets about the presidential election the final dreadful realization of the news media’s obsession with “sound bites.”’ (tags: twitter journalism campaign) Flickr: Photos from The Library of Congress LoC starts posting public-domain photos for all to view (and tag). (tags: flickr library photos archives public) Core Memory: A Visual Survey of…
1980 games - Old online video and arcade games for free - Juegos en flash flash/java-emulated arcade games. (tags: retrogaming emulators)…
Sticker Power-ups Smash Bros Brawl will have stickers to collect in single-player mode. Stickers! (tags: stickers smashbros nintendo collecting) Dictionary Evangelist: Cheat at Scrabble! A fundraiser Scrabble tournament in which teams buy cheats with the money they’ve raised. (tags: scrabble cheating) claimID.com - Manage your online identity OpenID provider that connects your other OpenID providers. Does this make things more or less confusing? (tags: openid login wallet)…
Gamasutra - The Watery Pachinko Machine of Doom: Project Horseshoe’s Thoughts On Story On the game designer as experience mediator. (tags: experience ux gamedesign) Directors, Studios Reach ‘Tentative’ Three-Year Deal; Residual Rate For Paid Downloads ‘Doubled’ | paidContent.org (tags: directors labor royalties strike)…
FL 909 Flash-based TR-909 emulator. (tags: emulators 909 drums music)…
The Unofficial World of Warcraft Cookbook-TaurenChef.com Real-life versions of WoW cooking recipes. (tags: worldofwarcraft wow cooking recipes food)…
World of Warcraft for Mobile Phones Totally a hoax, but why oh why won’t anyone make this for real? (tags: worldofwarcraft wow mobilegames hoax)…
Gamasutra - PEGI Ratings Show Forthcoming PSN Vib Ribbon This might finally force me to get a PS3. (tags: ps3 vibribbon games) Star Wars in Soul Calibur IV news from 1UP.com Darth Vader and Yoda to be the cameo characters in SC IV. (tags: soulcalibur fighting starwars games)…
15 Minutes of Fame: Noor the pacifist - WOW Insider Roleplaying WoW as a pacifist. I love seeing this sort of oppositional play. (tags: oppositional worldofwarcraft wow pacifism)…
Wee planets - a photoset on Flickr ‘360°x180° panoramas projected to look like small planets.’ (tags: mario photography globe planets flickr balls)…
San Francisco Cityscape: Bay Area Urban Planning Links, Maps & Photos Yum, transit maps. (tags: transit maps sanfrancisco)…
Your Twitter Karma Sort your twittersphere by followers/following. (tags: twitter socialsoftware network) Duels Gear/build-focused, PvP, browser-based MMOG. (tags: mmorpg browser combat) Pucca-funny love @ voozclub.com Yay Pucca! (tags: flash cartoons pucca cute characters)…
Google Reader Theme // journal // hicksdesign Hack to restylify Google Reader to look more Mac-y. (tags: google reader css)…
Twitter Stats Charts out your tweets per day, month, etc., as well who you reply to. (tags: twitter statistics)…
Could an end to game piracy reside in a stuffed bear’s heart? ‘perhaps another path exists, other than “service provision as proof of relationship”. What if we think about “Personalized product as expression of relationship”?’ (tags: personalization media gamedesign bespoke) Gamezebo’s Best Casual Games of 2007 & Zeebys 2008 Update - Gamezebo.com Stuff I should’ve played, and might have if DTD hadn’t absorbed my entire year. (tags: casualgames 2007 lists bestof)…
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)…
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…