Rock Solid Arcade. Flash games with ridiculously high production values, easily a match for XBLA. I wonder what the business model is here? Are the Google text ads and embedded Flash ads enough to support something like this?
Archived entries for May 2008
29 May 2008
27 May 2008
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Google AJAX Libraries API. Content distribution network and loading architecture for the most popular open source JavaScript libraries. Kind of inevitable, but I still believe a "woo" and indeed a "yay" are in order.
21 May 2008
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Apache RewriteLog. Having some head-scratching moments while trying to figure out which bit of server config is causing which bit of redirection. Looks like this could make the debugging a bit less of a headache.
13 May 2008
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Theorizing from Data (Video Lecture). Peter Norvig talks about working on a variety of machine learning problems at Google and the value of very large data sets.
8 May 2008
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Adobe - Developer Center : Exploring full-screen mode in Flash Player 9. I'd presumed the fullscreen mode on most video sites was a chromeless window spawned by Javascript. Apparently it's native functionality in the more recent Flash players.
6 May 2008
“On the positive side, this lack of forward progress allowed for some entertainingly picaresque journeys around the umbrageous streets of Liberty City, in which Niko, for want of anything more productive to do, ran about - in the comical, low crouch he likes to affect - picking on innocent pedestrians...”
— Catherine Bennett (pressing her joysticks a little too hard)
2 May 2008
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Grand Theft Auto IV and Digitally Degentrifying New York - New York Magazine. Best Dan Houser interview I've seen yet, goes into some detail about the pedestrians in GTA IV. Comes at it from more of a styling and aesthetics angle than the usual industry gameplay focus. Makes sense since with that being his core competency.
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