Infovore » 2009 » 04 » 18
  • About
  • Archives
  • Projects
  • Talks
  • Code
  • RSS
  • Contact
  • Airstrip One | MetaFilter
    'London police are now deleting tourists' photos because "photographing anything to do with transport is strictly forbidden."' Oh god.
    (tags: london photography rights )
  • Protovis
    "Protovis is a visualization toolkit for JavaScript using the canvas element. It takes a graphical approach to data visualization, composing custom views of data with simple graphical primitives like bars and dots."
    (tags: javascript charts graphics graphs canvas visualization library programming )
  • Academia, Bauhaus, Postmoderism and Games « Applied Game Design
    "[within the games industry]… the creativity-medium-invention and attitude-practice-deconstruction models often hold no water. Rather, there is only importance placed upon the “talent-meiter-immitation” model that is still in practice in the industry today." An interesting analysis of the nature of education (as it relates to the games industry) and models of learning. I have often lamented the depressing state of how career progression in the industry works, and this article helps quantifies it.
    (tags: games education industry career design academia bauhaus progress )
  • Left 4 Dead Blog – Surviving the L4D Survival Pack
    A thoughful post (as ever) from the L4D team detailing some of the balancing and planning that's gone into the Survival Mode experience. Looking forward to firing this up next week…
    (tags: games left4dead valve mechanics balance data )
  • Palindrome Semiotics
    "The genre of the palindrome, playful and ludic as it is, nonetheless has a strong implication of violence. In the work of its foremost practitioners, Velemir Khlebnikov and Vladimir Nabokov, as well as some of their postmodern successors, the palindrome is closely linked to death, cannibalism, beheading, and murder."
    (tags: language semiotics russian palindromes criticism culture )
  • Ending BioShock, by Tom Francis
    Tom Francis posits an alternate ending to Bioshock, that makes sense of the Vita-Chambers switcheroo, gives the player the agency they've craved, fixes some of the issues with the original ending, and asks you kindly to DROP THE GODDAMN RADIO.
    (tags: bioshock games narrative play storytelling writing )

Archives

  • 2022  January February March April May June July August September October November December
  • 2021  January February March April May June July August September October November December
  • 2020  January February March April May June July August September October November December
  • 2019  January February March April May June July August September October November December
  • 2018  January February March April May June July August September October November December
  • 2017  January February March April May June July August September October November December
  • 2016  January February March April May June July August September October November December
  • 2015  January February March April May June July August September October November December
  • 2014  January February March April May June July August September October November December
  • 2013  January February March April May June July August September October November December
  • 2012  January February March April May June July August September October November December
  • 2011  January February March April May June July August September October November December
  • 2010  January February March April May June July August September October November December
  • 2009  January February March April May June July August September October November December
  • 2008  January February March April May June July August September October November December
  • 2007  January February March April May June July August September October November December
  • 2006  January February March April May June July August September October November December
  • 2005  January February March April May June July August September October November December
  • 2004  January February March April May June July August September October November December
  • 2003  January February March April May June July August September October November December

infovore.org is a weblog by Tom Armitage, 2003-2025.