The first Game Hack Day sponsored by NYHacker took place this past weekend at General Assembly. Kudos to John Britton for putting it all together and gathering the sponsors (Riot Games) along with reserving the space. Around 20 teams hacked for just over 24 hours and resulting in new friendships, ne
Over at Rhizome, Joanne McNeil points to an interesting post on nature of Google Street View with some fun insights on screens. (We’re really into screens for obvious reasons.): Lee Friedlander took a series of photographs in the 1960’s that included screens (that were in a 1995 exhibit and subsequ
Enjoy some easy, instant mainstream videogame news! –Deadly Premonition creator is one publisher short of a new game. –Become Nancy Botwin in this new Facebook game based on Showtime’s Weeds. -Capcom plans to make replay ability a thing of the past. -Digital gamers are closing the playtime gap wi
Of the many wonderful uses of games, teaching people how to make pasta was not on our radar as a high priority need. Nonetheless, for researchers at the University of Bologna, the highly dextrous task rolling tortellini was a must. “We chose tortellini for two reasons,” explained professor of compu
Ryan Challinor, an engineer at Harmonix who worked on Dance Central, sent us a note about his new project Synapse that he was working on for Burning Man. He wrote: It’s easy to install on anyone’s computer, it’s open source, and it gives you a user-friendly interface to control music and visuals in
In case you were curious about how Watson, the Jeopardy-winning supercomputer, works up close, PC Mag took a deep dive. Keep your friends close and enemies closer, as they say: Is Watson considered artificial intelligence? Chu-Carroll said it depends on your definition of AI. If you define AI as mim
Inspired by watching her little brother struggle to make a tic-tac-toe program, Hannah Wyman, 10, decided to start making games of her own using Microsoft’s Kodu programming language. “He was programming tic-tac-toe, and for something as simple as tic-tac-toe he was up there for hours just trying
More Carrie Schneider work here.
Area/Code co-founder Kevin Slavin posted observations on a video of Salesforce.com’s chief scientist on the problem of “gamification.” JP Rangaswami says: “I have neither the intent or wish to put the lipstick of gamification on the pig of work because the solution is not to make work a pig and the
All from London-based designer Sebastian Bergne. [via]
Here’s some bite-size mainstream videogame news to go with your morning coffee. -Get a look at new screens, details and the trailer for the upcoming XCOM reboot. –Team Fortress 2 is now free-to-play online, but you can still pay for virtual hats and stuff. –Shenmue creator Yu Suzuki trades in his r
GA Tech professor Ian Bogost produced a series of “game poems” called A Slow Year as a set of 1K games for the Atari. But now he’s create a super luxe boxed version of the games for sale for $500 a piece. This strategy for boxed games is an interesting tack. Obviously, A Slow Year is not worth that
Swiss watchmaker Romain Jerome is releasing this eye-sore in collaboration with Taito. The company’s other watches go from more than $10k, but honestly, given the other crazy things that watches can do, we’d expect a playable build. Also, of note, is the company’s tag of “DNA of Famous Legends.” Per
GamePro has a fascinating, but short, interview with a man named Brandon Cobb who’s single-handedly is re-releasing old Genesis titles like Star Odyssey and breathing new life into them. By revisiting classic work, it’s a bit the role that classic soul labels like Now-Again and Numero Group have in
It’s Friday. Time to get your bowl of mainstream videogame news! –Blizzard considering bringing mobile MMOs to iOS devices. –Tern Digital adapting spy novel The Thirty-Nine Steps, and other classics, into videogames. –L.A. Noire is coming to PC this fall. -Rumors of an EA acquisition of PopCap h
Time for more mainstream videogame news tidbits! -Check out this video for info on Gears of War 3’s new and improved Horde. –Rage is now available as a comic book, for those who crave the storyline. –Dungeon Siege III dev Obsidian to release an update to fix finicky controls, and more! -Sir Mix-a-
Brace yourself for another dose of mainstream videogame news! -The question of turning the Professor Layton series into a social mobile game has been answered. –L.A. Noire DLC is evidence of what it would look like as an action game. –Gears of War design director Cliff Bleszinski wants to break fr
Here’s your daily spoonful of mainstream videogame news! –Zynga’s Emperors & Allies tops 30 million users in 17 days. –Industry giants talk about risk-taking at GameTech 2011. –Redbox vending machines now lending AAA videogames. –Capcom producer Yoshinori Ono talks about the past —and future— of
8 bit Invader (maping) from Darkfejzr on Vimeo.
WIMBLEDON from BRYANKU on Vimeo.
receipt racer from d_effekt on Vimeo. Paper or plastic? The receipt racer combines different in and output devices into a complete game. It was made during the “Let’s feed the future workshop”, part of the OFFF Festival in Barcelona on June 8th 2011.
