Links & notes for this month

• • Introducing Scrum at Large Animal
    "...they need to keep thinking creatively about how they work together and continuously try to improve their process. This mindset is the key to high performing, self-organizing teams."
    (tags: scrum xp agile games development software process management practice)
  • Red Bull Music Academy :: LECTURES
    "Like TED for Music" - tons of transcriptions and video interviews with all manner of performers. Looks superb.
    (tags: redbull music lecture talk interview video)
  • Trulia Snapshot: Images and Maps of Homes for Sale
    "Snapshot provides an alternative view of listings from Trulia and was developed in collaboration with Stamen Design." Beautiful - great connection between filmstrip and main panel, and the motion blur hits the delight sensor on the head.
    (tags: stamen trulia maps mapping realestate visualisation property flash infographics dataviz)
  • Gamasutra - Opinion: Why Time-Management Games Ought To Be Great At Story-telling (And Why They Mostly Aren't)
    "The result is a casual game with surprisingly nuanced and interesting characters, with whom the player begins to feel she has a real relationship -- even though all the dialogue occurs in cut scenes which we have no ability to alter." Excellent.
    (tags: story storytelling games play interaction design narrative interactiondesign)
  • Lookspring » The real story
    "Every single point along that road is wrong. And every single point along that road takes games somewhere expensive and difficult. [...] Emotionally complex games are great, but so are emotionally crude - or indeed emotionally barren - games." Excellent.
    (tags: games narrative story play interaction storytelling emotion engagement)
  • Warcraft : Tower Defense
    "NDS adaptation of the famous Warcraft mod". Oh my. DS Homebrew, I love you.
    (tags: towerdefense games play ds nintendods homebrew)
  • glitchDS
    "glitchDS is a FREE homebrew Cellular Automaton music sequencer for the Nintendo DS. It’s perfect for creating IDM and Glitch style loops." Should only work with R4, but seems to work with several carts.
    (tags: homebrew ds music nintendods sequencer sampler synthesizer)
• • Design Stencils - Yahoo! Design Pattern Library
    "Yahoo! Design Stencil Kit version 1.0 is available for OmniGraffle, Visio (XML), Adobe Illustrator (PDF and SVG), and Adobe Photoshop"
    (tags: wireframe design library patterns omnigraffle yahoo interaction interactiondesign templates)
  • Plotting the colors « The Arbitrarian
    "Dolores Labs paid MechaTurks to apply labels to 10,000 color swatches." Then they built network graphs out of them. Very nice.
    (tags: network intelligence collectiveintelligence color research nomenclature language colour)
• • 'Biggest drawing in world' revealed as hoax - Telegraph
    "DHL confirmed to the Telegraph that the artwork was an 'entirely fictional project'." As suspsected. Enthusiastic as I was, I wasn't sure GPS would penetrate that case. Oh well. It's a shame it was presented so realistically; feels a bit cheap.
    (tags: gps dhl art hoax misleading)
  • Sound and Audio Stock - AudioJungle
    "AudioJungle is a brand new audio community serving up thousands of stock music loops and audio effects by independent authors for use in your projects."
    (tags: audio stock loop music download samples community)
• • Colors!
    "Colors! is a simplistic digital painting application for Nintendo DS based on modern painting-techniques developed for drawing tablets in programs like Photoshop."
    (tags: ds homebrew application nintendo art painting drawing graphics nintendods software)
  • Colors! Gallery
    Users' artwork from Colors! for the DS. Really quite impressive, some of this.
    (tags: art colors ds illustration software nintendo homebrew)
  • russell davies: pre-experience design
    "if we're trying to create great experiences, that we align the expectations to help the case we want to make."
    (tags: design experience advertising desire psychology behaviour)
• • Grand Theft Auto: Sentenced
    "I wish Rockstar had made a better game for Liberty City and I wish they had written a better story for Niko Bellic. Because these are two of the most memorable characters you'll meet in any videogame." A great piece of criticism.
    (tags: gtaiv criticism games play review)
  • BIGGEST DRAWING IN THE WORLD
    Self-portrait sketched out in GPS traces across the globe. Or at least, across one particular projection of the globe. I'm just pleased to know things like this work.
    (tags: art portrait gps geolocation map projection)
• • YouTube - Pork and Beans
    Weezer's video for Pork And Beans is beautiful. I got a lot of the pastiches in it, but there are a few I'm missing. Still, lovely!
    (tags: weezer pastiche meme video pop music)
• • Fashion Hire; handbags for rent
    Handbag hire. No, really. Handbag hire.
    (tags: handbag fashion designer absurd rental product)
• • markItUp! Universal Markup Editor
    "markItUp! is a JavaScript plugin built on the jQuery library. It allows you to turn any textarea into a markup editor. Html, Textile, Wiki Syntax, Markdown, BBcode or even your own Markup system can be easily implemented."
    (tags: jquery javascript rte richtexteditor markup)
• • Welcome to GitCasts
    GitCasts: screencasts about git. Does exactly what it says on the tin.
    (tags: development screencast scm git programming versioncontrol vcs)
  • :: View topic - THE Rack List. (What can YOU do with Racks in Live 6?)
    Useful forum thread on downloadable racks for Ableton Live
    (tags: ableton live music production recording instrument rack)
  • Rands In Repose: We Travel in Tribes
    "The value lies in the network of people and how they illuminate the things I don’t know." Rands hits the nail on the head. It's about who you know, and how you make use of them. Just like real-world friends. Hint: Scoble is using it wrong.
    (tags: twitter communication socialsoftware network)
• • All your workouts are belong to Nikeplus - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
    "There is no way to remove workout data from the nikeplus website". Be thankful they only have cadence, and not location/geo...
    (tags: data ipod nike nikeplus security surveillance protection)
  • Ubigraph: Free dynamic graph visualization software
    "UbiGraph is a tool for visualizing dynamic graphs. The basic version is free, and talks to Python, Ruby, PHP, Java, C, C++, C#, Haskell, and OCaml."
    (tags: visualisation graphing opensource software programming graphics statistics)
  • Gothic IV Gets New Name, Needs Another One | Rock, Paper, Shotgun
    “The team invested months of research into the differences between European and American gaming preferences, so much so that there will be two different color palettes for Arcania: North American (bright and beautiful) and European (muted and gritty).
    (tags: color games design preference regional wtf)