The Ripper: The disturbing Visceral Games project that EA canceled - Polygon https://www.polygon.com/2018/8/24/17770668/jack-the-ripper-visceral-games-electronic-arts-canceled
Bad idea of the day: A video game called ‘infodump’ where the primary mechanic is literally using a wiki/world bible to research lore.
Hot take: cybernetics is an extremely powerful model if you understand the feedback mechanisms in place & game theory is an extremely powerful model if you understand the incentives, but you don’t, so be careful & check your work
Game Studio With No Bosses Pays Everyone The Same https://kotaku.com/game-studio-with-no-bosses-pays-everyone-the-same-1827872972
How People Used to Download Games From the Radio | Kotaku UK http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2014/10/13/people-used-download-games-radio
reality is a shitty game because you can’t win. reality is a shitty movie because everything happens for no reason. reality is a shitty book because when it does happen it’s repetitive and uninteresting.
Designing apps for the E Ink Kindle https://kevinlynagh.com/kindle-games/
Finance has its own term for ‘skin in the game’: ‘insider trading’. It’s also a legal term, because people very occasionally go to jail for being too obvious when they do it.
70 Long-Lost Japanese Video Games Have Been Discovered in a 67GB Folder of ROMs on a Private Forum - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3anja/labyrinthe-japanese-game-discovered-on-private-forum
https://medium.com/@thegrugq/meme-game-on-fleek-yeah-nah-4ce777ba059a (related to https://medium.com/p/how-to-fail-at-culture-jamming-7b409abf5db5 )
a party game where people take turns making wishes and being the djinns
Audacious Fox: The UX of Hidden Game Mechanics https://audaciousfox.net/linked/2018/hidden-game-mechanics
The CIA made a Magic: The Gathering-style card game for training agents, and we played it - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/21/17374054/cia-collect-it-all-declassified-training-tabletop-card-game
Nintendo Music Scene: Chiptune and Game-Rock Heavyweights https://tedium.co/2018/05/17/nintendo-nes-chiptune-music-scene/
all my favorite movies are beautiful clusterfucks because a dysfunctional game of telephone with people who don’t share a common language is the most reliable way to generate creativity
Impact Is Now Free & Open Source
My HTML5 Game Engine Impact launched almost 8 years ago. The last update was published in 2014. While Impact still works nicely in modern browsers, it lacks support for better graphic and sound APIs that are now available. I felt increasingly bad for selling a product that is hardly maintained or improved.
So as of today Impact will be available completely for free, published under the permissive MIT License.
Impact’s source is available on [gith … ⌘ Read more
Bad idea of the day: creepypasta in the form of a walkthrough for a nonexistent game from an alternate universe where a game like that described is normal
The rise of the ambient video game | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/4181/ambient-video-game-legend-of-zelda
These People Are Selling the CIA’s Internal Board Game to the Public - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vbxkd8/cia-board-game-techdirt-kickstarter
Wolfenstein vs Call of Duty - The Need for âBâ Games - Extra Credits - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42OkO9gQoQA
403 You are banned from this site. Please contact via a different client configuration if you believe that this is a mistake. http://freakonomics.com/2013/02/20/how-to-game-a-grading-curve/
Don’t submit yourself to a game machine! | Countercomplex http://viznut.fi/texts-en/dont_submit_yourself_to_game_machine.html
A Taxonomy of Tech Debt | Riot Games Engineering https://engineering.riotgames.com/news/taxonomy-tech-debt
VR games specifically designing for sticking your head into the environment: Messages on the insides of banana peels, easter egg worlds hidden in snowglobes, black holes near which you can see what happened five minutes ago, fight games where headbutts are a legit attack
Post-textual ideologies disseminated as games that build subtle intuitions not expressible in language, rearrange your worldview in a few hours of immersion, leave you with “Did you like being this person? Join us for more”
Good Game Well Played: The Story of the Staying Power of âStarCraftâ - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/2018/3/30/17179036/1998-video-games-starcraft-turns-20
My Cow Game Extracted Your Facebook Data - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/03/my-cow-game-extracted-your-facebook-data/556214/
Game of missuggestions: semantic analysis of search autocomplete manipulation | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/03/14/game-of-missuggestions-semantic-analysis-of-search-autocomplete-manipulation/
Bad idea of the day: a game show with fantastic cash prizes, where contestants distinguish between real and fake headlines from the past week.
The Internet Archive put your favorite LCD handheld games online - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/19/17138752/internet-archive-handheld-history-collection-game-emulator-mame
Four AI composition tools … https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/03/robots-composed-the-soundtrack-for-my-home-movie-they-can-help-you-too/
Fake news ‘vaccine’: Online game may ‘inoculate’ by simulating propagand… https://phys.org/news/2018-02-fake-news-vaccine-online-game.html
The Story of ‘Hyperch… https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bjyav3/the-story-of-hyperchess-a-3d-chess-game-inspired-by-star-trek
Doki Doki Literature Club - A Metamodern Horror Game - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgTTDdzxqdo
The Problem With Card Game Anime - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ6YeGCM1wo
A video game that doesn’t click until you let go of t… https://www.polygon.com/2018/1/9/16851376/everything-best-games-2017-year-in-review
Conway‘s Game Of Life in APL - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9xAKttWgP4
It’s time for cyberpunk games to remember how to be punk … http://www.pcgamer.com/its-time-for-cyberpunk-games-to-remember-how-to-be-punk/
This Game Teaches You How to Build a Quantum Compu… https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3jkya/quantum-game-physics-computer-puzzle
A world where rockets are only good for punching holes in the firmament and nations spend billions on putting pixels in the sky, to paint their own constellations or deface those of others in a giant strategy game
In a few years we’ll be able to take old games and run them through a realtime style transfer shader to play e.g. Half Life as imagined by Giger
AI Is Dreaming Up New Kinds of Video Games - MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609482/ai-is-dreaming-up-new-kinds-of-video-games/
Weird Kids‘ Videos and Gaming the Algorithm - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKp2gikIkD8
The Game Theory of Thanksgiving - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/nze49g/the-game-theory-of-thanksgiving
sitting in one of the windows together, immersed in a game of spotting the animals before they disappear again, only the engine’s hum in the background
the game map is all of wikipedia and you move around by following links, also the main page is full of campers, avoid
New repository: aquilax/wordgame - Word Game search library
Standard Patterns in Choice-Based Games | These Heterogenous Tasks https://heterogenoustasks.wordpress.com/2015/01/26/standard-patterns-in-choice-based-games/
I spent seven months living inside a conspiracy thriller and it’s not over yet - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/27/16554660/lust-experience-alternate-reality-game-darren-lynn-bousman-immersive-theater