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  • One More Go: Rhythm Tengoku, or Why plucking the hairy onion makes a new woman out of me – Offworld
    "…it turns out that a GBA and a cart isn’t any more use than a GBA on its own. It’s only when you build a machine out of a GBA and a cart and a me that you’ve got a real Rhythm Tengoku Machine. Bolt those three components together and you’ve built an entirely new organism, an extraordinary creature who can shoot ghosts, dance with monkeys, and climb stars like staircases."
    (tags: games play writing hardware offworld gba rhythmtengoku )
  • Kloonigames » Blog Archive » 4 Minutes and 33 Seconds of Uniqueness
    "You’ll win the game if you’re the only one playing the game at the moment in the world. The game checks over the internet if there are other people playing it at the moment and it’ll kill the game if someone else is playing it. You have to play the game for 4 minutes and 33 seconds." High concept, I'll give it that.
    (tags: games space surreal abstract globalgamejam silence solitary johncage nordicgamejam )
  • BBC NEWS | Technology | Video game helps with fire drill
    "Durham University's Dr Shamus Smith, who helped spearhead the project, told BBC News that that while bespoke 3D modelling software was available, modifying a video game was faster, more cost effective, and had better special effects." Quite true. Although: "gamers" tend to treat it as a game, wheras "non-gamers" treat it as a training exercise, and behave accordingly.
    (tags: games technology simulation training fire safety source seriousgames )
  • PC Pro: News: Q&A: Microsoft defends return to DRM
    Microsoft on their new MSN Music service, weighed-down by DRM. I don't normally link to stuff about DRM, but frankly, every single response in this is comedy gold.
    (tags: interview music microsoft mobile comedy drm )
  • Science News / Gamers Crave Control And Competence, Not Carnage
    "The results from two surveys, based on responses from over 2,500 people who participate in an Internet chat group focused on video games, found that the inclusion of violent content did nothing to enhance players’ enjoyment. What did matter was feeling in control and feeling competent. “Games give autonomy, the freedom to take lots of different directions and approaches,” says Ryan."
    (tags: games play research control motivation violence agency )
  • Loco Roco 3d Wallpaper by ~kheng on deviantART
    Beautiful.
    (tags: games 3D wallpaper artwork via:offworld locoroco )
  • Bobbie Johnson: Why I'm finished with 'social media' | Technology | guardian.co.uk
    "Social media is people. People talk about stuff. The end." Yes.
    (tags: journalism media social guardian socialmedia bobbiejohnson )
  • Speculating with Shoulda — GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS
    You can now use Shoulda macros in RSpec as well as Test::Unit. Thanks, Thoughtbot! Might take a poke at this some time.
    (tags: ruby testing thoughtbot rspec shoulda )
  • GPSTagr: geotag flickr photos using GPS
    Welcome to GPSTagr. Our service allows you to geotag your flickr photos using a track file from a GPS device in 3 easy steps.
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  • uplog » » Coding a Networked Bike
    "We’ve just finished a project for Yahoo called purple pedals (a.k.a. the yBike). In a nutshell, it’s a bike that takes pictures and uploads them to flickr in real time."
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  • IF Competition: General Reflections and Favorites « Emily Short’s Interactive Fiction
    "This year, I have no apologies about any of my top five. Here’s my list of the cream of the crop…" Emily Short on this year's IF competition entrants.
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  • geotag-lightroom-plugin – Google Code
    "This project installs menu items into the Adobe Lightroom interface that allows photos to be tagged with geographic information through the Lightroom interface."
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  • Huffduffer
    "# Find links to audio files on the Web. # Huffduff the links—add them to your podcast. # Subscribe to podcasts of other found sounds." It's like delicious for audio, but it spits out a podcast. Some really lovely work from Jeremy.
    (tags: web application webapp hfdf podcast filtering social aggregation )
  • T=Machine » Cultural differences: game developers vs web developers
    Adam's a smart guy and all, but god, most of this just really rubs me the wrong way. He's correct about business (or rather, he's correct about many of the things I hate about Web Entrepreneurship at the moment); I don't really think his views on product design ring true, though.
    (tags: design web games industry comparison development product )
  • Trends in Japan – CScout Japan Blog » Bandai RPG Pedometers animate your steps
    "Bandai will soon be releasing two new hybrid pedometer games to keep you entertained while racking up the miles as you go about your life. … [The] idea is to set personal goals of exercise and achieve them in a fun way."
    (tags: games ubicomp pedometer talkingshoe rpg design interaction )
  • jordanmechner.com » Blog Archive » October 20, 1985
    Jordan Mechner is serialising – and backdating – his journals from making the original Prince Of Persia. This post is a corker, if only for one of the early videos of Mechner's brother running and jumping. If you've played the original game, you'll understand what I mean the second you see the video.
    (tags: animation video jordanmechner princeofpersia )
  • The Sands of Time: Crafting a Video Game Story – Jordan Mechner
    "In this chapter I'll try to shed some light on the creative and technical decision-making processes that went into crafting the story and narrative elements of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (POP for short). The team's approach was practical, not literary; our challenge was to find the right story for a mass-market action video game." Jordan Mechner on writing Sands of Time; well-crafted, and very pragmatic.
    (tags: writing jordanmechner games script princeofpersia pop popsot )
  • The Unfinished Swan
    "The Unfinished Swan is a first-person painting game set in an entirely white world. Players can splatter paint to help them find their way through an unusual garden." Beautiful.
    (tags: xna games monochrome blackandwhite 3d npr nonphotorealistic abstract surreal stylised )

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