28 Oct 2005, 06:48

Game Design and Prototyping

Check this out: http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20051026/gabler_01.shtml

26 Oct 2005, 17:46

Petzold article

Found this nifty article in Slashdot, it’s a very entertaining read. Don’t take it as the Holy Gospel, it is half information and half provocation, but if you let it make you think about the topic, you may be surprised how many things ring a bell in your head.

24 Oct 2005, 17:11

F$&#@NG iPod!
It doesn’t work on my desktop machine, nor on two other PCs I have tried. Shortly after plugging the USB cable, the iPod goes back to the regular menu like it was disconnected. Sometimes it stays connected, but the moment I try to transfer anything (even just updating a tag on a song from iTunes, or checking the drive from Explorer), it resets to the menu. However, it does work fine on my machine at work and on my laptop.

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23 Oct 2005, 09:14

Kojima, Colossus, Serenity
This may be interesting… I started playing Shadow of the Colossus… it’s simply amazing, a game like no other. The scale of the Colossi and the way you climb up on them makes most other 3rd person games feel as primitive and flat as, say, classic 2D scrollers. It’s quite hardcore, and breaks pretty much every rule of game design. Serenity is a plain old fun sci-fi adventures movie. Everything in it is fairly simple and predictable, but the result is very entertaining, and deserved much better success at the box office.

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21 Oct 2005, 05:39

Abstract games

If your eyes are sore with all the bumpmapped glory of the latest FPS shader fest, check this out! Kenta Cho’s site has a collection of impressive (and incredibly simple) games for several platforms. Vector graphics at their finest!

19 Oct 2005, 14:57

The end of an idiot?

Let’s hope so. Go go Penny-Arcade!!

Edit: And the story goes on!

17 Oct 2005, 12:18

Rebellion of the bloggers!
Ok, so I have a few blogs linked in my page. Over the past week, the first two of them have left their jobs, and precisely in that order. What does that say about me, or them, or anything? 🙂 Are Joel Spolsky and Raymond Chen next in line? Hm… nah I don’t think so. Anyway, if you need some game consultancy work done, I’m sure you can’t go wrong with Jamie Fristrom.

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08 Oct 2005, 06:41

King Kong demo
So Ubi Soft has released a short PC demo of the King Kong game… 2 months in advance??? Granted the demo doesn’t exactly spoil anything, but with probably the biggest movie license this year, do they really need to get the hype up so early? Aren’t they running the risk of making the game “old news” by christmas? Anyway, the demo is short, but interesting to watch. Textures are a tad bit too sharp, to the point of becoming noisy.

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05 Oct 2005, 12:26

Visual trick

http://www.compfused.com/directlink/944/ is amazing!

30 Sep 2005, 04:18

An old friend

Sometimes nostalgia hits me hard:

Dedicated to Turbo_Bit!