In an interview yours truly did for Gamasutra, I spoke with experimental game maker Jake Elliott about Chopin’s Preludes, which were the source of inspiration for his short game Ruins. Jake explained to me how games might be entering a Romantic period. The Preludes are really expressive. That’s ano
For years Major League Soccer has been trying to think up ways to drum up interest in the world’s most popular sport. Think no more MLS, because this youtube clip might be the ticket. Nothing about the game would have to change: attach shock training collars onto everybody on the field (including th
Nothing is 0k is a program that allows Atari 2600 consoles to write poetry. This is a substantial feat, considering the machine only has 4 kilobytes of memory. The way this is done is rather geeky, but also very cool. The machine spits out a pattern of shapes and colors, as seen above, which can the
Gridiron fans aren’t normally considered Mensa material, but becoming immersed in a game of football provides plenty of mental stimulation. When a fan watches a game, as one University of Chicago study showed, the same areas of the brain are activated as would be if that person were playing. This en
I got a chance to play around with a quadrotor drone in an empty parking lot on New Years Eve. What’s the big deal, I thought. Yeah, it was cool that I could control the drone with an iPad using virtual thumbsticks, exactly like I’d play a first-person shooter. But the drone was pretty flimsy, it go
Via This is Colossal, a piece of stop-motion whimsy. Keep an eye out for the Space Invaders plug: After organizing their own bookshelf earlier this year, Sean Ohlenkamp and wife Lisa re-doubled their efforts for Type Books in Toronto. After several sleepless nights of animating with a crew of over 2
It’s that time again. Here’s today’s wrap-up of mainstream gaming news. – 3 years of development later, much-anticipated downloadable game, Journey, is done and will hopefully be out soon. – Minecraft developer Markus Persson aka Notch, wants to fund Psychonauts 2. – After some pretty serious finan
When I was sixteen, I got a speeding ticket. I knew I shouldn’t have been driving sixty-five miles per hour in a thirty-five mile per hour zone, but on the other hand how awesome was it (until I got pulled over)? Pretty awesome (until I got pulled over)! Wall Street Journal explains: Recent studies