Posts for year 2007

Sunday, December 30, 2007Happy new year
Friday, December 21, 2007Crossing the great uncanny valley
Wednesday, December 19, 2007Strange news about Hobbit movies
Wednesday, December 19, 2007A little musical fun
Wednesday, December 19, 2007Balance of Power book by Chris Crawford finally available again
Wednesday, December 19, 2007Happy Fifth Birthday, Intelligent Artifice
Tuesday, December 18, 2007Gordon Walton Gives 12 Lessons from WoW
Thursday, December 13, 2007Ubisoft Threatens Something Awful Over Jade Comic
Monday, December 10, 2007"Rockstar Head Ascends to Take-Two Throne"
Saturday, December 8, 2007Back from Lyon
Sunday, December 2, 2007Meet me at GDC Lyon
Saturday, December 1, 2007I have a new job
Thursday, November 22, 2007Three hundred mechanics, with comics on the side
Tuesday, November 20, 2007A little story about Animal Crossing
Monday, November 19, 2007Pac-Man as interactive fiction
Sunday, November 18, 2007On Team Fortress 2 and Portal
Monday, November 12, 2007Game development areas
Sunday, November 11, 2007Career advice from Shuna Fish Lydon
Thursday, November 8, 2007Next Generation article on video game credits
Wednesday, November 7, 2007Phase, a music game for the iPod
Monday, November 5, 2007More on Manhunt 2 and Rockstar Vienna
Thursday, November 1, 2007Rockstar Vienna's missing credits for Manhunt 2
Wednesday, October 31, 2007Grand Theft Scratchy is no more
Wednesday, October 31, 2007BrÃ¼tal Legend, the next game from Double Fine Productions
Wednesday, October 31, 2007A royal welcome for the king of Saudi Arabia
Tuesday, October 30, 2007Two simple truths about producers and game designers
Monday, October 29, 2007The forgotten genre of the submarine simulation
Sunday, October 28, 2007Ricky Jay, master magician
Friday, October 26, 2007Venn diagram comparing PlayStation 3 models
Friday, October 26, 2007LOLCode .Net compiler
Monday, October 22, 2007John Scalzi on how not to increase traffic to your blog
Sunday, October 21, 2007Regarding Dumbledore and the boundaries of Harry Potter
Friday, October 19, 2007ADHD patients play video games as part of treatment
Monday, October 15, 2007What to do if you don't have a game designer on your team
Monday, October 15, 2007Rockstar Games lacking sense of humor?
Saturday, October 13, 2007"Try Telling That To My Baby" by The Heavy Blinkers
Thursday, October 11, 2007Electronic Arts buys Bioware / Pandemic for $800 million
Wednesday, October 10, 2007More about 4mm Games, Jamie King's new company
Monday, October 8, 2007Sony drops PS3's backward compatibility
Monday, October 8, 2007New York Times op-ed about the potential of the games medium
Friday, October 5, 2007Site upgrade
Thursday, October 4, 2007Cool children's prank involving a train
Thursday, October 4, 2007Trailer for new Pixar movie Wall-E revealed
Wednesday, October 3, 2007Awesome info visualization in The Kingdom
Tuesday, October 2, 2007Is Bungie leaving Microsoft?
Monday, October 1, 2007Why game design is important
Monday, October 1, 2007More about Yojimbo, the OS X information organizer
Friday, September 28, 2007Surreal Game Design: a group blog on game design
Thursday, September 27, 2007Interview with Ridley Scott about Blade Runner: The Final Cut
Thursday, September 27, 2007The OLE Coordinate System simulates M.C. Escher in real-time 3D
Wednesday, September 26, 2007Chinese MMO bans in-game gender-bending
Wednesday, September 26, 2007Joerg Plewe and Flying Guns
Sunday, September 23, 2007Zero Punctuation
Sunday, September 23, 2007Braid is coming to Xbox Live Arcade
Sunday, September 23, 2007Sex advice from video-game designers
Saturday, September 22, 2007Batman by Dostoyevsky
Friday, September 21, 2007Metaplace: open DIY virtual worlds for everyone
Friday, September 21, 2007Vocaloid 2: Yamaha's anime song generator
Friday, September 21, 2007Christian Coders Network
Thursday, September 20, 2007Intel To Acquire Havok
Wednesday, September 19, 2007Mass Effect to include sex scene
Wednesday, September 19, 2007Some people are visiting this site for the wrong reasons
Monday, September 17, 2007Japanese 'Human Art' stop-motionesque video
Friday, September 14, 2007Games and Web 2.0: My presentation at the University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt
Friday, September 14, 2007My Xbox 360 is back
Wednesday, September 12, 2007An official (?) Super Mario World level that plays itself
Monday, September 10, 2007Study proves violent video games make women smarter
Thursday, September 6, 2007Video filters over reality
Wednesday, September 5, 2007Love Death 2
Wednesday, September 5, 2007Seam Carving for Content-Aware Image Resizing
Saturday, September 1, 2007Bioshock's copy protection
Thursday, August 30, 2007Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet
Wednesday, August 29, 2007About Haze
Tuesday, August 28, 2007"The Nines"
Tuesday, August 28, 2007High-end PCs and consoles are the Hummers of the computing world
Tuesday, August 28, 2007"Fit Song" by Cornelius
Monday, August 27, 2007A description of my professional services is online
Monday, August 27, 2007Spore Preview
Saturday, August 25, 2007About Skate
Friday, August 24, 2007Back from the Games Convention in Leipzig
Wednesday, August 22, 2007Japanese monster costumes
Tuesday, August 21, 2007Julian Eggebrecht on censorship in games
Monday, August 20, 2007Bioshock demo
Sunday, August 19, 2007A Tribute to the Rolling Boulder
Saturday, August 18, 2007Meet me in Leipzig
Saturday, August 18, 2007My Xbox 360 died
Friday, August 17, 2007Regarding The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion
Monday, August 13, 2007Post-transfer observations
Saturday, August 11, 2007Transfer complete
Friday, August 10, 2007Welcome
Friday, August 10, 2007Transfer in progress
Wednesday, August 8, 2007A thought on celebrity
Sunday, August 5, 2007Temporary Offlininess
Sunday, August 5, 2007Dueling Banjos for Guitar Hero 2
Tuesday, July 31, 2007The Simpsons Movie: The Game - Made in Vienna
Tuesday, July 31, 2007Warren Spector starts blog, sells studio to Disney
Tuesday, July 31, 2007Rockstar Vienna lives
Monday, July 30, 2007How To Get Into The Games Industry
Saturday, July 28, 2007Games Buddha won't play
Friday, July 27, 2007Where World of Warcraft's dance moves come from
Thursday, July 26, 2007Working at Rockstar Games
Friday, July 20, 2007First news of Doug Church's new project
Friday, July 20, 2007Checkers has been 'solved'
Thursday, July 19, 2007"Nobody Knows" by Aya Karpinska
Thursday, July 19, 2007Will Wright's TED Talk: Toys that make worlds
Wednesday, July 18, 2007Chore Wars
Sunday, July 15, 2007Trusty Bell Exceeds Sales Expectations in Japan
Sunday, July 15, 2007Sidewalk stencil choose-your-own-adventure
Friday, July 13, 2007Simon Carless on Matthew Smith and Jet Set Willy
Thursday, July 12, 2007Nintendo’s first WiiWare title, straight out of Vienna
Thursday, July 12, 2007Electronic Arts' STL Implementation
Tuesday, July 10, 2007More complete, produced game design documents
Tuesday, July 10, 2007Gold-farmers beat ad-ban by spelling URL in dead gnomes
Monday, July 9, 2007Trailer voice-overs
Monday, July 9, 2007Pardon the dust
Sunday, July 8, 2007Tetris humor
Sunday, July 8, 2007Intermission
Wednesday, July 4, 2007A Clip of Harmonix' Rock Band Gameplay
Tuesday, July 3, 2007South Korea Taxing Virtual Worlds
Monday, July 2, 2007Polybius
Tuesday, June 26, 2007Richard Bartle and Randy Farmer walk into a bar...
Monday, June 25, 2007Richard Cobbett's 50 strange moments from PC gaming history
Monday, June 25, 2007Manhunt 2: Photoshopped to suit the BBFC
Friday, June 22, 2007Screenshots from the intro of Phantom Hourglass
Thursday, June 21, 2007Spore delayed
Thursday, June 21, 2007Inland Empire
Wednesday, June 20, 2007Nintendo and Apple to partner on games for iPhone
Wednesday, June 20, 2007Most Popular Quotes Overheard in New York
Tuesday, June 19, 2007Video games hidden in the grooves of LPs
Tuesday, June 19, 2007Waterfall 2006 - International Conference on Sequential Development
Tuesday, June 19, 2007Former Rockstar Games co-founder & VP of Development starts a new company
Tuesday, June 19, 2007Trailer for Ratchet & Clank for the PS3
Sunday, June 17, 2007Teaser trailer for Pixar's next movie, WALL-E
Saturday, June 16, 2007The Mac gaming situation, summed up
Saturday, June 16, 2007Very geeky reaction to Naughty Dog's new game Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
Friday, June 15, 2007The new office of Three Rings Design
Friday, June 15, 2007Homie handhakes
Friday, June 15, 2007Electronic musician Younnat triggers samples using a PC steering wheel
Thursday, June 14, 2007Electronic Arts and ID Tech 5 at Apple WWDC 2007
Thursday, June 14, 2007Pixar worked with Thomas Keller on Ratatouille
Wednesday, June 13, 2007Will Wright at The New Yorker Conference 2007
Tuesday, June 12, 2007Handhelds drive games market, says Enix chief
Tuesday, June 12, 2007Five Lara Croft models in latex
Monday, June 11, 2007Michigan: Report from Hell
Monday, June 11, 2007Church of England demands Sony donation for cathedral shoot-out game - Yahoo! News
Friday, June 8, 2007The Chris Hecker / Wii brouhaha at GDC 2007
Wednesday, June 6, 2007AIIDE 2007 proceedings
Sunday, June 3, 2007Dueling Analogs - crude but hilarious online comic about games
Sunday, June 3, 2007Fix8 Brings Computer Generated Animation To The Webcam
Thursday, May 31, 2007I could be a U.S. high school graduate
Thursday, May 31, 2007My hard drive crashed
Wednesday, May 30, 2007Crazy Japanese gameshow where people have to jump through oddly-shaped holes
Wednesday, May 30, 2007Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Wednesday, May 30, 2007Microsoft Surface, a multi-touch interface device
Wednesday, May 30, 2007LOLCODE
Wednesday, May 30, 2007When was the last time you had fun at work?
Wednesday, May 30, 2007A different kind of online gamer
Sunday, May 27, 2007Techno-privacy scarf
Monday, May 21, 200710tacle opening development studio in Vienna, Austria?
Saturday, May 19, 2007Blizzard announces StarCraft 2
Saturday, May 19, 2007Former game developers sell web 2.0 company
Saturday, May 19, 2007Former Rockstar Games employee develops messiah complex
Friday, May 11, 2007Former game developers start web 2.0 company
Friday, May 11, 2007A year after Rockstar Vienna closed its doors
Wednesday, May 9, 200720+1 Useful OS X Tips
Wednesday, May 9, 2007Gangsta rap from Guetersloh
Tuesday, May 8, 2007Second Life: Europeans Outnumber Americans 3 to 1
Tuesday, May 1, 2007A little meta-post
Thursday, April 26, 2007Spider-Man 3 may be the most expensive movie ever made
Thursday, April 26, 2007Kitty Pidgin
Wednesday, April 25, 2007Harvey Birdman game from Capcom
Tuesday, April 24, 2007Game developers change light bulbs
Tuesday, April 24, 2007War on Terror, the board game
Sunday, April 22, 2007Tomb Raider Anniversary dated
Saturday, April 21, 2007More on Aufbaustrategiespiele
Friday, April 20, 2007Guitar Hero II song pack pricing
Thursday, April 19, 2007This is why I don't have a Wii
Thursday, April 19, 2007Haloid
Wednesday, April 18, 2007The most frustrating Super Mario mod ever
Tuesday, April 17, 2007A 20-Something L.A. Girl, Gamer & Playboy Bunny
Tuesday, April 17, 2007Gaming convention in Iraq / '300' parody by VG Cats
Monday, April 16, 2007Ubisoft buys Sunflowers: Commentary
Friday, April 13, 2007Another anecdote about people offering things on the street
Thursday, April 12, 2007Kurt Vonnegut has died
Wednesday, April 11, 2007Ubisoft buys Sunflowers
Tuesday, April 10, 2007An anecdote about making music on the street
Tuesday, April 10, 2007Complete, produced game design documents
Monday, April 9, 2007"No one belongs here more than you" by Miranda July
Monday, April 9, 2007My review of Yojimbo
Sunday, April 8, 2007Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries
Friday, April 6, 2007Data visualization
Friday, April 6, 2007Greg Costikyan won the Maverick Award
Friday, April 6, 2007Funny movie with a TV cook
Thursday, April 5, 2007Interview with Andreas Varga
Wednesday, April 4, 2007That 'Road To Ruin' Article
Wednesday, April 4, 2007Plumbing
Tuesday, April 3, 2007Game Focus Germany 2007
Monday, April 2, 2007The Game Design Job Description
Friday, March 30, 2007Update (for real this time)
Friday, March 30, 2007Update
Saturday, March 10, 2007GDC is the new E3
Tuesday, March 6, 2007Analysis of Howard Stringer at Sony
Friday, March 2, 2007Robert Anton Wilson has died
Thursday, March 1, 2007Warren Ellis on sex in Second Life
Saturday, February 24, 2007Minus World
Friday, February 9, 2007A great short movie explaining Web 2.0
Thursday, February 8, 2007Rockstar Games announces Manhunt 2
Wednesday, January 31, 2007A short live-action movie about a hamster video game
Wednesday, January 24, 2007A homebrew port of International Karate Plus for the Nintendo DS
Tuesday, January 23, 2007Will Wright gets a prize from a Hollywood organization
Saturday, January 20, 2007The contract between Activision and Spark for Call Of Duty: Finest Hour
Monday, January 15, 2007Reactable: a collaborative tactile musical interface
Wednesday, January 10, 2007TV report on games from Austria
Saturday, January 6, 2007Footage from Namco's The Idol Master