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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 )
  • Box Art
    "A scrapbook collection of awesome videogame box art." Added to subscriptions immediately. This is going to be lovely.
    (tags: games history art gaming packaging boxart boxes )
  • WTF? (Where The hell is FIFA 09?) – Peter Moore Blog
    "Now I get that the sports genre is the Rodney Dangerfield of games when the awards are handed out. But c'mon, one of the best sports games of recent times not even in the Top 50? This title will sell in excess of 10 million units when all is done and dusted, but doesn't even rank a mention?" Peter Moore didn't read the editor's explanation of how the EG top 50 was worked out. Then again, neither did half the internet.
    (tags: games ea mainstream popularity petermoore fifa )
  • The Air Force’s Rules of Engagement for Blogging [Updated] — Global Nerdy
    Really not that stupid when you think about it, even if it is accompanied by Yet Another US Army Infographic…
    (tags: socialmedia policy web20 blogs protocol bloggings )
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