Infovore : tag : cartoon

04
February
2011

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Tagged as:
cartoon, interaction, interactivefiction, prospectmagazine.

E-Book reader in 2011/2050, and the magic of interactive fiction

"More sea metaphors." This made me laugh a lot. (cartoon in Prospect).

(tags: prospectmagazine interaction interactivefiction cartoon )

26
February
2009

Links

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2d, blogging, bookbinding, brand, cartoon, cheese, culture, dantesinferno, design, diagram, eegra, film, flash, flowchart, forum, games, humor, humour, jackschulze, ken, kenfighterken, literature, manufacture, marketing, mashing, mashup, mirrosedge, notebooks, ohdear, parkour, pastiche, platforming, popularity, product, retro, rock, ryanair, schulzeandwebb, scrub, service, socialmedia, society, speculative, streetfighter4, system:filetype:jpg, system:filetype:png, system:media:image, thewrestler, work.

Hadouken Hadouken Hadouken

More on the phenomenon that is Ken Fighter Ken.

(tags: games humour cartoon cheese streetfighter4 ken scrub kenfighterken mashing system:filetype:jpg system:media:image )
The Ken Flowchart

This is a pretty accurate explanation of the state of the majority of SF4 online. It's also quite funny, and is the reason the phrase "Flowchart Ken", used to described a particular kind of player, is already entering the SF4 Lexicon.

(tags: games humor diagram flowchart cheese streetfighter4 ken scrub system:filetype:png system:media:image )
Ryanair: "Lunatic bloggers can keep the blogosphere" | Media | guardian.co.uk

"Ryanair can confirm that a Ryanair staff member did engage in a blog discussion. It is Ryanair policy not to waste time and energy corresponding with idiot bloggers and Ryanair can confirm that it won't be happening again." Ryanair's social media strategy is pretty much on-brand, it seems.

(tags: marketing socialmedia blogging brand ryanair ohdear )
Hit Self-Destruct: Domestic City, Part Three

'A morose-looking guy stood at the bar talking to his friends, wearing a Flashbang Studios t-shirt. Emily leaned across the bar next to him, and shouted giddily over the music: "hey, I like that developer."' A lovely piece of speculative writing from Duncan Fyfe.

(tags: games popularity culture society rock speculative )
Pulse Laser: Endless Notebooks

A first, rather long, post on the S&W Blog, in which I talk to Jack about a project he's been working on for a while.

(tags: design product manufacture work service schulzeandwebb jackschulze notebooks bookbinding )
EA's drawing board of ideas before creating Dante's Inferno: the videogame – The Eegra Forums

"This summer will you be, or not be? It's Resident Evil meets House of the Dead, IN DENMARK." Epic Eegra thread taking the Dante's Inferno-shaped ball and running a very, very long way with it.

(tags: games humour pastiche dantesinferno forum literature mashup eegra )
Mirror's Edge 2D

Full version, no out! The beta was lovely, so I'm looking forward to this a lot.

(tags: flash games parkour 2d platforming mirrosedge )
The Making Of Wrestle Jam: The Wrestler's Unsung Hero

"[Wrestle Jam is] completely playable. There was an intro screen, character select, win / loss conditions, opponent AI, eight different attacks," Furino explained. "It was as close to a genuine old-school wrestling game as I could make it in the time allowed. I even mapped an old Nintendo controller to the input system so they could play it that way." Gosh, that's lovely, if not totally unexpected from Arronofsky. Lovely interview, too.

(tags: games pastiche film retro thewrestler )

09
September
2008

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amazing, animation, bbc, cartoon, chuckjones, conference, container, copywriting, dansaffer, dconstruct08, deduction, design, documentation, education, experience, experiencedesign, games, inference, interaction, kicker, merb, method, products, programming, roadrunner, routing, ruby, rules, science, scientificmethod, selkbag, shipping, shippingcontainer, sleepingbag, statistics, studio, systems, teaching, thebox, wired.

Games Without Frontiers: How Videogames Blind Us With Science

"After all, what is science? It's a technique for uncovering the hidden rules that govern the world. And videogames are simulated worlds that kids are constantly trying to master. Lineage and World of Warcraft aren't "real" world, of course, but they are consistent — the behavior of the environment and the creatures in it are governed by hidden and generally unchanging rules, encoded by the game designers. In the process of learning a game, gamers try to deduce those rules. This leads them, without them even realizing it, to the scientific method."

(tags: games science scientificmethod systems method deduction statistics inference wired teaching education )
Road runner rules

Jason Kottke republishes the supposed rules that Chuck Jones and other Road Runner animators stuck to whilst making their cartoons. Perhaps a little apocraphyl, but I like the idea of rules for things that aren't games.

(tags: rules roadrunner cartoon animation chuckjones systems )
Merb Routing in 0.5

"Merb’s routing shiznits needs some serious documentation love. Whilst I have a shot at getting some proper docpatches together here’s an overview of how to use routing in Merb 0.5." Thank god for that – was finding Merb's docs a little patchy in places.

(tags: merb routing ruby programming documentation )
Lippi Selk Bag

Cannot believe I only just discovered this: it's a sleeping bag with arms and legs. Incredible.

(tags: sleepingbag selkbag amazing )
Kick It › Creating Products, Not Experiences

"…it’s my feeling that experiences can’t really be designed. You can only provide the resources for people to have an experience; then it’s the people (users) themselves who create the experience." Dan Saffer hits the nail on the head at his new studio's blog. Can't wait to see what comes out of Kicker.

(tags: products experience design dansaffer kicker studio experiencedesign interaction )
Early dConstruct thoughts | A Better Course

"This leads into something else that felt very clear after the conference; the need to look outside of what we already know. If, as Matt Jones, posited, execution is more important than ideas, we’re going to need an understanding that is based on people who are not us, and that understanding is going to have to incorporate all the richness of what they know, how they model their worlds, and how they model their interactions with the world around them." Looking forward to more from Alex on dConstruct

(tags: dconstruct08 design copywriting conference )
BBC NEWS | Business | The Box takes off on global journey

"The Box is an ambitious and unique year-long project for BBC News to tell the story of international trade and globalisation by tracking a standard shipping container around the world." Awesome. What's better is that it's a working container, which means it's not significantly contributing in a negative way to environmental damage any more than other containers. Could be interesting.

(tags: bbc thebox shipping container shippingcontainer )

10
December
2005

“…ask yourself if you want to get addicted and be thirty years old, typing on the internet about how the spiderman movie does not match up with the comic book”

Lovely. From Toothpaste for Dinner

01
December
2005

How projects really work. This provided a good few minutes of laughter in the office this morning

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