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Is Your Life Just One Big RPG?

Thomas Mannino — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:00:00 +0000

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 knows where we are at any given time, as do we know where we are in the world. This smartypants talks about one possible direction we’re going in, in how the ‘achievement culture’ that games have created will spill over into the corporate world and they will use these tools against us.

My only substantial comment is what I’ve said before about marketing: It’s constantly evolved with us over time. Originally it started out as ‘buy this product,’ then it turned into ‘buy this product, it will make your life better!’, and things like ‘buy this product if you want to be like this person!’ and so on and so on. This is just another step along those lines, I think. I don’t think it’ll get to the point that this guy speaks about, but it’s interesting to think about.

So again, watch if you can spare the time!

Is Your Life Just One Big RPG? — Mind-Blowing Speech From DICE 2010 – G4tv.com.

Passage in 10 Seconds

Thomas Mannino — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:30:48 +0000

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 travel with her, but it also makes you less agile. All-in-all a pretty simple/cute idea, naturally a game of this nature is very artistically-charged so there were a lot of discussions had about it across the itnerbutss, but that’s not why I bring it up.

In the spirit of silliness and commentary, someone made a Flash game called Passage in 10 Seconds. It’s a funny summary and commentary on the game itself. It’s funny to me because this is similar to the spirit of what goes on at Newgrounds.com a lot; someone makes something prominent, and for whatever reason, the community comments by responding with some sort of work. Obviously this is the essence of meme-ery, too.

The murmur of people talking about games, art, etc recently seems to be getting louder.

Play Passage in 10 seconds, a free online game on Kongregate.

Single-Button Game: Spite

Thomas Mannino — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:28:46 +0000

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 his to make a game called Spite. It’s done in XNA so if you want to try it, it is a download/install, (in which it actually downloads more stuff while you’re installing, which scared me!)

John did an amazing job. Totally done in the style of the Zelda for the SNES.

Spite: An entry for Gamma 4 « luminance.

Cream Wolf – New Adult Swim Game

Thomas Mannino — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:25:06 +0000

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 night or closer to a full moon, the audio and visuals gets messed up because you’re GOING CRAZY.
When you get to your hideout, you run around the screen and EAT THEM. The fatter the more points.
Adult Swim games are amazing.

Cream Wolf – Free Online Game From Adult Swim.

YouTube – UIST 2009 Student Innovation Contest – Demo Video

Thomas Mannino — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:07:21 +0000

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.

YouTube – Super Mario Kart : Death Race Double Dash

Thomas Mannino — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 06:17:21 +0000

YouTube – Super Mario Kart : Death Race Double Dash.

THERE WILL BE BRAWL: EP 4!

Thomas Mannino — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:00:29 +0000

NEXT EPISODE IS OUT.

I HAVE A SMALL BUT IMPORTANT PART IN IT.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/there-will-be-brawl/670-Episode-Four

This might possibly be the picture that ends the internet:

Yes, this is what he does.

GLaGPS – Genetic Lifeform and Global Positioning System

Thomas Mannino — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:23:20 +0000

I have created a custom voice file for GPS units with a stylized voice in the fashion of GLaDOS, the charmingly creepy antagonist of the game. That’s right. You can now dutifully follow directions from your GPS unit all the while wondering if the next instruction will lead you to your GPS-planned doom in a car wash retrofitted with flame throwers and sawmill blades. Take a look at the video below for a very quick sample of the voice.

GLaGPS – Genetic Lifeform and Global Positioning System

Diablo 3??

Thomas Mannino — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:20:33 +0000

So currently, rumors abound as to what the splash page on http://www.blizzard.com could possibly be fore. Here is one theory:

ferox_TGSimulator

Thomas Mannino — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:14:27 +0000

Cool idea: A WoW boss fight mechanic explained in a flash minigame. ferox_TGSimulator Related posts:Three Hundred Games! Blizzc-owned… Project Visitor Related posts: