Hilarity Comics is a comic about video games. But not an inoffensive, middle-of-the-road comic like Penny Arcade or VG Cats. No, this is an underground comic, testing the limits of your taste. I find it funny, but you might not. You have been warned.
Where the Hell is Matt? Very, very cool.
Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.
(Via Making Light.)
I just came across the story of Limbo of the Lost, a game that has been in development in some form for 15 years, and that in its current incarnation for the PC appears to be the most awe-inspiring case of plagiarism since Giana Sisters. I mean, check out these screenshots.
On June 12th, the game was pulled from release when multiple sites and forums posted screenshots showing items, environments, menu graphics, characters, even fonts stolen from more than a dozen games as well as several movies. Similar screens revealed the company’s theft of graphics goes back even to the original version for the Amiga.
Every developer who’s been around for a while knows of studios that do so some bad things, but this… this is impressive.
Suda was working as an undertaker, enjoying the booming Japanese arcade scene, when he noticed an advertisement for an opening at Human Entertainment, best known for designing the Clock Tower and Fire Pro Wrestling series’s. [Suda] received a call from Human, and was immediately hired. He began work as a scenario writer on Super Fire Pro Wrestling 3 Final Bout. The next game he would work on, Super Fire Pro Wrestling Special, remains one of his most infamous to date due its shocking ending, in which the hero commits suicide.
… No comment.
“Moving Mario” is a cute installation by Keith Lam, aka the Demos. It is easier to show than to describe:
You can read the slightly too elaborate description here. I guess you have to write that kind of stuff when you’re an artist - I’d have thought you just get it after seeing it for 2 seconds.
It strongly reminded me of the “Be Kind Rewind” exhibition at the Deitch gallery in New York. A friend of mine went there, and it sounded hilarious. Lots of crummy yet crazily inventive mechanical sets and backdrops that anyone can use to make their own movie.
I can’t find a decent description of it, but here is a video showing some of the backdrops:
First, someone removed Garfield’s speech bubbles. Then, someone removed Garfield. Now, Josh Millard has added Markov chains to create Garkov
(Garkov link via Monochrom.)
Update: Jason Kottke has collected a boatload of Garfield variations. Most of them are worth a few seconds of your time, and may evoke the fleeting thought of a chuckle. In other words: it beats regular Garfield.
Here is a video of Team Fortress 2, with voice chat, a karaoke mode and Celine Dion’s ‘My Heart Will Go On’. The singing is terrible, but I can’t stop watching because it is so hilarious.
TF2 Karaoke: My Heart Will Go On from FLOOR MASTER on Vimeo.
Hmmm… what would it take to do that in World of Warcraft? I’d need a small add-on that takes karaoke data and outputs it using /rw, then trigger a sound file on Teamspeak at the same time…. Sounds like a great little project for learning Lua, heh heh heh *twiddles moustache*. Anyone know of open karaoke data formats?
(Thanks, Tobi.)
MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.
What an awesome video. You can read more about it here.
I have become quite interesting in hand-made, physical, unconventional media recently. I wonder how this video’s style, combined with some clever graphics programming, could be turned into a cool approach to interactive storytelling.
After weeks of inaction… what has he been concocting in his lair? What nugget of wisdom has he been cooking up in his kitchen of doom? The tension mounts.
A video of a Super Mario level where the sound effects match the opening track of cult anime series ‘The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi’. Clearly my mental faculties are leaving me.
Update: It’s actually a medley of anime music, ‘Hare Hare Yukai’ was just the only one I could recognize (or care about - Suzumiya Haruhi ftw).
Update: OK, found out a bit more about this. 1 - Kotaku posted this early May. But I am not going to read Kotaku, so meh. At least I blogged it before Boing Boing. 2 - This is the ‘Nico Nico Medley’ (or ‘Nico Nico Douga’), a medley created on or for Japanese YouTube-ish site Nicovideo.jp. As far as I can tell it is a medley of anime themes by hard-core anime fans. The medley appears to be quite popular in the otaku underground, there is even a blog about its various manifestations… More about Nicovideo.jp and related subcultures here (although their instructions for registering sadly do not seem to be up to date).
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