You can read a follow-up to this review here. Well, here is something I never expected to write. I am going to review Yojimbo – not the movie by Kurosawa or the comic by Stan Sakai, but the Mac OS X information organizer from Bare Bones Software, makers of BBEdit. Why? Because I can. And [...]
Intelligent Artifice
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Monthly Archives April 2007
Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries
I am sure I have blogged about this before, but I don’t care. I heart net artist Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries. Check out Samsung Means To Come, Urgent Request, or my favorite The Struggle Continues. (Make sure you have about 5 minutes without interruption, your sound is on, and, depending on your workplace, you are [...]
Data visualization
Today, one new link about data visualization, and one older one which I hadn’t blogged about yet. The new one first: Here is a video of home prices in the US from 1890 to the present, visualized as a roller coaster ride. It’s a cute idea. I would have loved to see more data and [...]
Greg Costikyan won the Maverick Award
This just goes to show how much I am not paying attention to games news: I only just found out that Greg Costikyan won the Maverick Award at this year’s Game Developers Choice Awards for his work at Manifesto Games. Congratulations! You can read his acceptance speech here.
Funny movie with a TV cook
YouTube – What’s in your Fridge? 2 I laughed. It has nothing to do with games.
Interview with Andreas Varga
NDSwelt, an ‘inofficial’ online magazine (in German) about the Nintendo DS has an interview (in German) with Andreas ‘Mrsid’ Varga about homebrew programming for the Nintendo DS in general, and his port of Great Giana Sisters in particular (watch a video here).
That ‘Road To Ruin’ Article
I assume many people who are reading this have read David Kushner’s article “The Road to Ruin: How Grand Theft Auto Hit the Skids” in Wired magazine. Although this is exactly the kind of gaming news I have trouble getting excited about, I figured I should write about it. To be honest, the article bored [...]
Plumbing
I’ve added some doohickeys to the site and fiddled with the feeds. Let me know if anything has stopped working or is acting up.
Game Focus Germany 2007
On February 14th and 15th I attended Game Focus Germany, a game industry conference in Hannover Germany, organized by Nordmedia. There’s a 3 minute video (partially in German) showing some of the speakers after the jump.
The Game Design Job Description
‘Grassroots Gamemaster’ wrote this post about what they don’t tell you on the game design job description. It’s pretty funny and pretty accurate. [Company] is seeking an experienced Lead Game Designer to join our team developing games for [console] and other next-generation platforms. The ideal candidate will have developed and released multiple games in the [...]
