August 2009
7 posts
America's Army Game Used to Create Machinima About...
Machinima artist Paolo Pedercini turns the tables on the U.S. Defense Department’s controversial America’s Army recruiting game in Welcome to the desert of the real. The 6:37 video uses footage from America’s Army to highlight symptions of post-traumatic stress disorder, an increasingly prevalent condition among U.S. service personnel returning from combat zones in Iraq and...
The Beauty of Retro Game Design
Not just in terms of pixels, the two tumblogs highlighted below offer examples of typography of title screens and arcade cabinet and box art, respectively. There’s even some Fairchild box art mixed in there. Lots of sweeping, curved, thick, parallel lines in these late seventies/early eighties designs, and the typefaces follow (think of the Pong title). These are mostly eye candy, but...
Learning to Program Games - Greenfoot Book...
via amazon.com
I wanted to share this excellent book on programming in Greenfoot (just released), which is a Java-based simulation/programming environment that we’ve been using for the past three years on the P4 Games project to teach programming to people new to programming. I haven’t seen a program that does a better job of introducing and visualizing the concept of objects...
Play Multitask, a free online game on Kongregate
Think you can handle multiple games at once? See just how coordinated you are. via kongregate.com
Curiously addictive, if only to see what comes next, and would make an interesting entry point into a discussion of strategy in games. What strategies did you find yourself using? What score did you decide was enough? (I stopped at 84 because I just wanted to see that fourth screen. At that...
Kind of Bloop: An 8-Bit Tribute to Miles Davis'...
Kind of Bloop An 8-Bit Tribute to Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue
via kindofbloop.com
Believe it or not, the samples for this chiptune remake of Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue sound really impressive. What’s almost as fascinating is the story of how it got made. To cover the royalty fees and other costs, the producer Andy Baio collected the $2000 needed in four hours through...
Game Over by PES
via youtube.com
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FILE & São Paulo - Photos and Video
The first gallery is from the FILE International Electronic Language Festival. It includes some documentation of my own work, but mostly tries to give an overall idea of the show and focus on a few of the works that I found most compelling.
This second gallery contains mostly photographs of the amazing graffiti in the Liberdade neighborhood of São Paulo. On my second-to-last day in the...