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Surreal Game Design: a group blog on game design September 28, 2007

Surreal Game Design is a group blog on game design by the designers - all 17 of them! - at Surreal Software in Seattle. They make me feel inadequate by writing lots of great articles about professional game design, but then again, they’re 17 and I am just by myself. Also, I need a lot of time to trawl the web for funny cat pictures and stuff.

Anyway, go check them out if you want to read about game design from people in the trenches. And if you like what you’re reading, you can see if they have open vacancies on the same site! Smart.

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Joerg Plewe and Flying Guns September 26, 2007

Joerg Plewe currently is a senior Java and GUI developer and has been in many areas of IT ranging from embedded programming to bioinformatics and games. Joerg has studied physics and used to work with languages like C/C++, Forth, Lisp, Assembly and others in all kinds of environments.

That may be so, but I know Joerg Plewe as the programmer I used to work with over 10 years ago at Blue Byte Software. He is a very serious programmer, and almost talked me into developing an interest in FORTH. The world might have been very different if he had succeeded.

He has a blog over at java.net where he mainly talks about Java (duh), but also about physics/dynamics stacks and cloud rendering.

He is also one of the key people behind Flying Guns, an open source distributed 3D simulation framework (aka 3D action flight sim). It is based on a framework for distributed simulations, all written in Java. Pretty impressive!

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Zero Punctuation September 23, 2007

If by some chance you haven’t yet heard of “Zero Punctuation”, Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw’s video game review column over at The Escapist, well, go check it out. It’s very entertaining.

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Warren Spector starts blog, sells studio to Disney July 31, 2007

I just found out via Robin that Warren Spector has started a blog. And what’s the first thing I read? Junction Point has been acquired by Disney. (I am not a game news junkie anymore, so it was news to me.) Congratulations!

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Dueling Analogs - crude but hilarious online comic about games June 3, 2007

If Penny Arcade and VGCats make you blush, don’t read Dueling Analogs. You’d be missing quite a few very funny jokes though.

(Thanks, Tobe!)

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“No one belongs here more than you” by Miranda July April 9, 2007

The website for No one belongs here more than you, a collection of stories by Miranda July, is the best website I have ever seen for a book.

Via Jason Kottke - read his post, it saves me some typing trying to explain why the site above is so cool.
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Minus World February 24, 2007

Minus World is a comic by Bill Mudron and Anne Moloney, about a game development company in Portland, Oregon. (It starts here.) The details about the games business are very accurate, and often hilarious (e.g. the genesis of Minus World). Check it out.

(Wasn’t there another comic about a game development company in Portland, Oregon, that was not as well-drawn? I forget.)

Update: Ah, yes, I was thinking of Angst Technology, which I blogged about years ago. It’s not as good. I don’t know why I am associating it with Portland.

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Mizuguchi’s Blog January 2, 2005

Good news: Tetsuya Mizuguchi has a blog. Bad news: It’s in Japanese.

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Nullsumme December 24, 2004

Dear Markus,

for some reason, your blog is not easy to read in my RSS reader. Tobe apparently has similar problems. I don’t know if there’s something you can do about it, but I thought I’d mention it.

Meanwhile, I’ve found this to be the most enjoyable way to read your blog :P

Merry Christmas, a happy New Year, good luck with your work, and keep on blogging,

Jurie

P.S.
See you next Tuesday at Johnny’s maybe?

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Geek On Stun December 20, 2004

And while I’m at it: Geek On Stun looks like an excellent source of games information from Japan.

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