Zelda cap makes us rethink our moratorium on gamer gear.
I don’t really wear hats. Nor do I like “gamer gear.” But this Zelda-themed cap will be my exception for today.
Jamin Warren
535 postsJamin Warren founded Killscreen. He produced the first VR arts festival with the New Museum, programmed the first Tribeca Games Festival, the first arcade at the Museum of Modern Art, won a Telly, and hosted Game/Show for PBS.
Bribery, porn and spam dot the road to mobile app success.
Ryan Tate at Wired dives into the seedy world of, um, apps. Getting to the top requires a bit of moral ambiguity and he outlines the many ways that app creators are artificially manufacturing buzz. Games, of course, are front and center. Buying users. Let’s say you’re playing a game on your Android
Streets of Chicago become a giant Monopoly board.
Anonymous artists by the name of “Bored” are taking the streets of Chicago one dice roll at a time. They’ve painted various sidewalk blocks that lovely hue known as Monopoly and even created houses and hotels in the process. Perhaps its tribute to the game’s inventor, Elizabeth Magie, who created Th
Build with Chrome is a cross between FarmVille and Minecraft.
Video Google Australia teamed up with LEGO to build a giant board for you to populate with whales, houses, and, undoubtably, inappropriate body parts. (Thankfully, there’s an approvals process, you griefers you.) Check you the site here.
Stop-motion surf vid features Playmobil dudes, sheet waves, summer fun.
VIdeo French animator and artist Karim Rejeb is all about going to the beach and surfing. The short is a follow-up to Rejeb’s first film LINO and is all set to music by SMILE. [via Laughing Squid]
Can avatars help socially-awkward students adjust?
Too much Freaks and Geeks on the mind this AM. A new program helps kids interact via avatars: The simulation, designed for children ages 8 to 12, allows clinicians to play the roles of the avatars while the children sit at a computer in a different room and respond to situations they encounter routi
Decade-long Civilization II game locked in 1700-year nuclear war; ice caps have melted 20 times.
This is madness. A Reddit user has been playing Civilization II for more than a decade and the results are awe-inspiring/depressing: A couple of in-game millenia later, the landscape is mostly “inundated swamp land,” as the polar ice caps have managed to melt 20 times. Engineers are constantly buil
Want to learn to play Dwarf Fortress? O’Reilly has a 238-page book to teach you.
It’s in the programming section. Ha.
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