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"Trial of the Clone," a modern choose-your-own-adventure story, gets kickstarted.
In case you missed the chance to meet the creator of the Choose Your Own Adventure series last Sunday, rest assured that you still have more opportunities to relive your childhood. Zach Weiner, of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, is kickstarting a new “choosable pathway gamebook” called “Trial of
Creators of the Dream Machine discuss their handmade Polanski hallucination.
video In a recent interview with Joystiq, Anders Gustafsson and Erik Zaring talk about how they made their award winning Dream Machine out of handmade puppets and watching Roman Polanski’s apartment trilogy. Chapters 1-3 are available on Steam. Erik: Our game is called The Dream Machine and it’s e
Blizzard’s Diablo III visits a shrink for its looting problems.
Virtual currencies have been in the news a lot recently, pointing to the need for a more nuanced understanding of the way gamers spend their money—whether it’s real or not. Jamie Madigan has been posting an interesting (and entertaining) series of articles about the psychology of loot in Diablo III
EA and Google showcase "Strike Fortress," insist games are really easy to make in HTML5.
EA and Google are bragging about their 3D robot fighting game largely built by interns in HTML5, and they want you to start making games in HTML5, too, The New York Times reports. Their “Strike Fortress” is a test game, but one designed for more casual gamers—a challenge for developers to start thin
Virtual Legos and Lego real estate available via Build
Video Google is doing so many projects that it’s hard to keep track of them all. One you might not have seen is called Build, a place to build with legos on plots of land that are correlated with Google Map plots. You can see your neighbors but unlike Farmville there’s no waiting to tear everything
Learn to pack via interactive website.
Video There’s a proper way to pack to ensure that the weight of your shoes is distributed evenly and that fold creases don’t show up as huge wrinkles. Since few of us have a valet to pack for us anymore, Louis Vuitton has supplied an interactive site called The Art of Packing to teach us. It include
Real-life disasters inspire Zombie RPG Dead State.
The Dead State Kickstarter has received its funding, and Doublebear founder Brian Mitsoda reflects on his inspiration in surviving a hurricane in Miami: In 1992, Miami was hit by a category 5 hurricane that leveled the entire city. It changed the landscape, such that you couldn’t really use landmark
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