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Creator of Carnivàle launches new 16-camera angle short film, channels a game engine.
Video Daniel Knauf, who created the HBO series Carnivàle, has created a new storytelling system called Bxx that allows viewers to watch a story unfold over the course of 48 hours. This is an unwitting nod to how machinima makers work inside game engines, leveraging the same work across a wide variet
Forget innovation. It’s replication that really matters.
Cloning has been an issue near and dear to our hearts, specifically the difference between simply copying someone’s idea and making it better. Over at the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Daniel Ben-Horin frets over what he calls “innovation obession disorder” — that we are too focused on the nove
Jonathan Blow featured in the Atlantic and why videogames can’t catch a break.
In the past few weeks the Smithsonian Art of Videogames was poorly received, the NY Times wrote on “stupid” games and Keiji Inafune discussed why Japanese games are lacking direction. And now, Taylor Clark’s piece in The Atlantic on Jonathan Blow: Never mind that they’re now among the most lucrative
Cheat Sheet 4/12: Sony cuts thousands of jobs, BioWare’s false advertising, and screenshots from Notch’s next game
Here’s today’s mainstream news: – Sony president Kaz Hirai has confirmed the company cut 10,000 jobs to cope with losses. They’ve also teased what seems like a new God of War game. – The Better Business Bureau has decided that BioWare falsely advertised Mass Effect 3. – The first few screens from N
The sad state of the Japanese games industry as told by Keiji Inafune
Wired‘s Chris Kohler recently interviewed Mega Man creator Keiji Inafune about his thoughts on the state of the Japanese games industry. Inafune has been very outspoken about his perception of Japanese developers, stating “our game industry is finished.” The designer has been trying to spur change w
How does one subculture influence another? Moleman 2 shows the way.
Video A new documentary on the demoscene, Moleman 2 – Demoscene – The Art of the Algorithms, is out on YouTube. Moleman 2 is about the demoscene subculture, told by mostly Hungarian sceneres, but it features also some other nationalities. As an impact of the spreading of computer technology, some ne
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