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“The people responsible for note tracking … aim to reproduce the way that the song is played on a real guitar to the greatest extent possible within the confines of the guitar controller’s limited repertoire of moves.” Which is what I assumed.
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“The thing about Harmonix is that even though they strive to bring total non-musicians closer to music, they still mark a clear boundary between playing music and not.” A much better explanation of this than I tend to give; lovely article.
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“Your bewilderment suggests you are not be familiar with the new vi assistant.”
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“jsvi is a vi-clone written in pure javascript and should work in any modern web-browser.” Blimey.
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Galactus is real.
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Junot Diaz on GTAIV in the Wall Street Journal. Excellent writing, on the nature of good vs. great and great vs. seminal; on what art does to us; on how it needs to go farther. Smart, engaged, written by someone who gets culture and who *plays*.
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Pat Redding is Narrative Designer on Far Cry 2. This is his presentation from GDC 2008, with full notes. It’s very, very good: all about designing story in an open-world environment. Lots of detail. Designers: you need to read this.
