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Monochrome Japanese Perspective Puzzles

nobody@vox.com(ydnar) — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:14:27 -0800

I have a thing for purposeful monochromatic constructions, devices that simultaneously tickle my parietal and occipital lobes, Venn diagrams of precious little intersection of the trickster, beauty and math. Childhood ingredients included parts Escher, Pinball Construction Set and the Basel School. This week I was ecstatic to be exposed to not one, but two examples of this meter—one physical, the other virtual, both Japanese, rendered in white, challenges to be experimented with.

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The Beginning of the End of My Game Design Career

nobody@vox.com(ydnar) — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:13:04 -0700

Majestic 2001

This news post today regarding BioWare and LucasArts made me recall a phone conversation I had on the lawn outside AltaVista back in 2001. A producer from BioWare called me and said they were using a set of textures I’d made to prototype KOTOR. They wanted to know if I was interested in moving to Canada.

It was then that I realized that the game industry, as attractive and fun as it could be, was not going to, well, pay well enough to have the life I wanted to have. Especially in 2001. In Canada.

I ended up taking a 50% pay cut to go work on a PS2 game in Seattle later that year. Silly me, not learning.

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Apple planning iPhone SDK

nobody@vox.com(ydnar) — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 08:44:11 -0700

Apple planning iPhone SDK

http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/17/ap...

In February, Apple will release a native SDK for the iPhone. Apps will need to be signed (ugh), but at least this lays the groundwork for real 3rd party development on the iPhone/iPod Touch platform. And by development, I mean games.

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Aye Mak Sicur

nobody@vox.com(ydnar) — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 23:34:32 -0700

Aye Mak Sicur

Found this on YouTube—a video of someone (badly) playing through the opening level in Marathon Infinity. I made this level and the accompanying textures in 1996 while drinking way too much Coke and listening to Portishead. The music definitely influenced the textures.

Update: Yes! Portishead’s new album!

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Double Fine’s Brutal Legend

nobody@vox.com(ydnar) — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:11:39 -0700

Double Fine’s Brutal Legend Confirmed - Shacknews

http://shacknews....

“A surreal ode to the mythology of rock and roll staring [sic] the talents of Jack Black and a stable of heavy metal legends."

Steve’s friend Steve from around the way is working on something with Jack Black. Hot.

I’m having flashbacks to FAKK2. Sorry.

Edit: Steve’s posts are all about hating Microsoft and his Xbox being busted. ♥

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A long time ago...

nobody@vox.com(ydnar) — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 23:09:07 -0700

ydnar.co.uk.2

...I used to design stuff. Websites, logos, tradeshow booths, user interfaces, videogames, levels, flyers, CD covers, packaging. I went digging through old archives of hard-drives of archives of hard-drives today and pulled out a few gems from 1992-2001, including a 1997 design for the first celebrity gossip blog.

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WebKit Team Adds Audio + Video Support

nobody@vox.com(ydnar) — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 07:39:05 -0700

Audio & Video in Webkit

http://trac.webki...

No Flash on your iPhone? No problem. The WebKit team is hard at work implementing the WhatWG Audio and Video elements. This, combined with SVG and Canvas should make the platform fairly decent (if a bit slow) for games.

Google and ye shall receive. Spec.

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DNF

nobody@vox.com(ydnar) — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 23:58:00 -0700

In althetic events, DNF means did not finish. In videogames, DNF means did not finish.

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Wii ♥ HL2

nobody@vox.com(ydnar) — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 09:30:21 -0800

I hope Valve implements 1st-party support for the Wiimote...pardon the music:

HL2 Wiimote Mod day 22

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GTA: Coke

nobody@vox.com(ydnar) — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 08:40:35 -0700

This is truly great advertising:

GTA Coke

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