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More Ferry Halim, and it’s a wonderful little one-button game. Also, the music is as good as ever, except it’s cheery rather than heartbreaking, which helps.
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“The city goes dark. The tolling gets louder. In all the region’s cemeteries, the soil starts to quake.” Oh god yes. Lovely article about earthquake dampers and giant clocks.
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“I believe there’s a much larger story about how our whole civilisation is based to some extent on our desire for booze – one that goes back even further than human civilisation itself.” James on fine form at Interesting.
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“…making that context a part of your marketing is going to be much more relevant to customers than being dismissive of your competitors could ever be.” Alex on marketing and copywriting, again. Good stuff (and: good snacks!)
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“Pizza Party is a free text based software package for ordering pizza, or for throwing pizza parties.” This is awesome.
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Man page for pizza_party: “pizza_party -pmx 2 medium regular \ Orders 2 medium regular crust pizzas with pepperoni, mushrooms, and extra-cheese.” This is just pure awesome.
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More on Jumpstyle – although I’m really digging the progression into Shuffle highlighted here. I love this stuff. Also, I’m a sucker for choreography.
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There’s a link at the end of this thread to a patched OSX version of Cave Story. Excellent!
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“Do you enjoy classic 2D platformers? Then boy, are you in luck!” Massive MeFi post collecting a whole bunch of indie platform games.
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GPS for cycling with time-attack and training modes; lets you race against yourself (or virtual competitors) over time, and track progress on the PC-based training application.
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“What that means, though, is that when you’re looking at game writing in that way, you’re trying to fix a busted carburetor with an oil gauge and a cheese grater.” Some sensible analysis; such a shame we need to write things like this.
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“…visiting [Lego’s] secret vault guarding almost every Lego set ever manufactured—touched me in a way I didn’t expect. This wasn’t amazement or simple awe… these were tickets to ride a time portal to emotions and simpler days long forgotten.”
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Lovely article on the localisation work for Etrian Odyssey on the DS. Tight memory restrictions leads to translators having to be smart; Atlus’ team appear to be that.
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“A caution to people buying these: if you do not follow the “directional markings” on the cables, your music will play backwards. Please check that before mentioning it in your reviews.” And so forth. Very funny reviews for a somewhat overpriced product.
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“A couple years ago, it occurred to me that learning some basic finance/investing (which sadly, isn’t really taught at all anywhere in the school system) might not be a bad idea.” Leonard Lin shares his investment spreadsheet.
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“[Sony]… lost USD 2.16 billion on PS3 in 2007, and a further USD 1.16 billion this year… the company has warned investors that … ‘the large-scale investment…may not be fully recovered'” This isn’t sustainable, guys.
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“WE MAKE GOOD TEAM”. Lovely.
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Some good stuff and choice quotes about the background to the Big Picture, a truly wonderful blog of the stories hidden inside wire photojournalism.
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Awesome. Server set up to play karaoke; players mix appalling singing with a bit of the old ultraviolence. I miss PC gamers.
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Wonderful, wonderful, one-button game that looks like those cave-surfing games but isn’t. Gorgeous.
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“It’s time for direct action against bad game-related degrees.” Yes, yes, yes. A thoughtful, sensible article… and one that applies to many other fields, too. Such a waste.
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A good article, until the last sentence which made me VERY ANGRY.
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“There’s a bottom-line reason most industries gave up crunch mode over 75 years ago: It’s the single most expensive way there is to get the work done.” Yes, yes, yes; a great article, with lots of good references.
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” He came from the hood, made his own beats, made up a new saying, new sound and a new dance with one song. He had all of America rapping this summer. If that ain’t Hip Hop then what is?” 21st Century beefs, with Kanye weighing in. Great.
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“Television is the way it is simply because people tend to be extremely similar in their vulgar and prurient and dumb interests and wildly different in their refined and aesthetic and noble interests.” Iain Tait with some DFW. Sharp stuff.
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“The comments on this site stand in stark contrast to the childishness and idiocy that flourishes elsewhere on the net. I know it, and I know I’m fortunate in this regard.” A nice thank-you note from a really rather good writer and gamesblog.
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“Eats your del.icio.us tags and spits out a tasty timeline.”
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“SHIA LABEOUF: Pick up MAP. Use MAP on HARRISON FORD. Walk To TOMB.”
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“I feel sometimes it is as important for us to see our mistakes as it is for us to see ourselves at our best, it gives us direction and allows us to progress looking backward as well as forward. So these are my simple truths.” Lovely UK parkour video.
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An outdoor games console, with lots of fun locative play elements. And it’s *real*.
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One-button game that won the NLGD gamesdev rally. Looks interesting, and Michiel was a lovely chap.
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You save money; you level up in the electronic game that’s attached to the piggybank…
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“Have an analytical mind? Like to cook? This is the site to read!” Also: lots of good, step-by-step instructions, with some lovely diagrams of when to do everything…
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Awesome stuff. This, really, is one of my core backgrounds: not so much being an “HTML monkey” but performing genuine front-end engineering. It’s such a shame so many places don’t see it as a true skill.
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” Protein[DS] is a little audio manipulation software running on Nintendo DS, which ables you to manipulate audio, anywhere you go – it is in some ways similar to ElectroPlankton concept.”
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“Fortune500 companies would be better off hiring science-fiction writers than MBA consultants right now.”
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“I’ve come up with a plugin that you can inject into a jQuery site that you own and see how the performance breaks down method-by-method.” Once again, John is awesome.
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“If you can make a PDF, you can now publish a magazine. On behalf of everyone at MagCloud, I can’t wait to see what you make.” Derek Powazek drops a big one. Awesome stuff.
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Raph’s presentation from GDC 2007. Very good stuff.