Thursday, February 25, 2010
This video is worth watching if you’re at all into games. It’s long but bare with me.
It’s an interesting take on our current culture. Games are overlapping into our daily lives more and more. We ‘play’ with toys on the web like Ebay, Facebook, Foursquare. We carry around supercomputers in our pockets. The world [...]
Thursday, February 25, 2010
So Mr Jason Rohrer made a simple game called Passage, where you simply travel through a lifetime as you play. As you progress farther ‘right’ into the game, you get older. Travelling up or down lets you explore, with down being more risky and more adventuresome. You can find a spouse as well, and thereby [...]
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
So this year at the Game Developers Conference, they are having what they call a ‘One button games party.’ It is what it sounds like. They asked people to create games that can be played by using only one button. My friend John (@BryneShrimp) lent his artistic talents and worked with a buddy of [...]
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Monday, February 22, 2010
Cream Wolf.
You are a werewolf.
You are an ice cream man.
You drive around the town in your ice cream truck and play psychological ice cream truck music.
You must feed the thin kids in the neighborhood so they fatten up.
When there is a full moon you lure them back to your hideout.
When it gets late in the [...]
The gaming implications are pretty rad, it would take some adjusting to but I think for the most part I wouldn’t mind if all keyboards went this way!
YouTube – UIST 2009 Student Innovation Contest – Demo Video.