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  • Fall Out Boy Trail
    It's Oregon Trail, but where you take everybody's favourite emo band on tour of the states. Surprisingly deep and detailed, an affectionate tribute to Apple II entertainment and the rigours of being a touring rock band. It is very silly, and somewhat ace, and will be getting a blog post in due course.
    (tags: games music parody pastiche retro falloutboy oregontrail affectionate appleii )
  • YouTube – A Master Class for Ken (SF4)
    "Tips and tricks only the pros knew, UNTIL NOW! Get ready to PWN up some NUBS on Xbox Live and get some MAD BP'S BRO!" I'm pretty sure I've played this guy.
    (tags: games video streetfighter4 ken kenfighterken sf4 )
  • Outtakes from the businessbib process – a set on Flickr
    "These are just various photos taken during the development cycle of the businessib. Enjoy them. We hope you think they are as hilarious as we do." Oh my word.
    (tags: tailoring suits businessbibs abusrd )
  • Versus CluClu Land: La Comedie Post-Humaine
    "If you keep the city and concentrate on putting more world into it, imaginativeness becomes the primary obstacle– you can add things into this city without having to add much physical space and new assets. There's legions of empty storefronts and empty buildings, waiting to be filled. And media– web sites, radio stations, tv shows– don't take up space either. Think of this cheap empty space as a place to tell new stories, because as a developer, you are good at this." Iroquois, hitting many nails on the head all at once, again.
    (tags: games narrative stories iroquoispliskin dlc gtaiv gaas balzac universe )
  • The Guardian Open Platform | guardian.co.uk
    The Guardian Open Platform launches, with their Content API, their Data Store, and a selection of client libraries for the API (one of which I did a smidge of work on). This is not just a good thing, it's a good thing Done Right, and I'm looking forward to what's next from the Open Platform team.
    (tags: platform web guardian data journalism api content openplatform )
  • Matthew Bloch – accidents
    "A collection of accidents that happened while working on maps and other graphics." Bloopers from interactive infographics. Delightful; the patina and happy accidents of the 21st century.
    (tags: infographics maps data visualisation error happyaccident bloopers )
  • james's custodian at master – GitHub
    Custodian is the Ruby gem for accessing the Guardian Open Platform Content API that James Darling, Kalv Sandhu, and I (although my contribution was minor) built. There's a Google Code link to it, but I'd imagine the github version is where the action will be.
    (tags: programming ruby gem library guardian api code module openplatform contentapi )
  • CR Blog » Blog Archive » Meet Mr Chicken
    "You may not know his name but you will certainly know his work: Morris Cassanova (aka Mr Chicken) designs and makes signs for most of the fried chicken shops in the UK." That's a good market to have sewn up, I'd imagine.
    (tags: design uk food culture branding signage friedchicken )
  • Obsessed with the production design of The President’s Analyst « Magical Nihilism
    Jones annotates his screengrabs from the James Coburn classic; lovely to see it all captured so well, even if I'd disagree that the plot is a thing of "gossamer" – it's a _tiny_ bit thicker, surely?
    (tags: mattjones movies cinematography stills jamescoburn thepresidentsanalyst productiondesign )
  • 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 )

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