Tagged as video
11 Jul 2010
Discoveries from a morning's browsing: A tour of Origins Game Fair 2010 in five parts. First part below, other parts here: 2, 3, 4, 5.
I used to wonder what this and Gen Con would be like to visit when I'd see photos in Dragon magazine as a kid. Much as you'd expect, there are some impressive displays mixed in with a bunch of tat. Still seems like it brings in a fair few exhibitors these days, but it's looking a bit light on attendees.
Related to that was this "one cool thing I saw at Origins" video, with multiple people mentioning Legerdemain. Which is a Java-based, rogue-like game, only lighter on the randomness and heavier on the story. Still has permanent death, ascii art and all that stuff you might expect, although I understand a graphical tile-set is in the works.
Incidentally, the principal developer Nathan Jerpe also wrote this piece on the limitations of the room as a metaphor in interactive fiction, which I found kind of interesting a while back.
23 May 2010
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Matt Haughey at Gel 2010.
A fun, short presentation on his experiences with MetaFilter. Part advice on nurturing an online community, part anecdotes.
7 May 2010
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Peter Cushing and his 'Little Wars' set-up.
Hardcore nerdery as gentlemanly pursuit. The ur-hobby-game; Little Wars begat Chainmail, which begat Dungeons & Dragons, which more or less begat every RPG, MMO, FPS and sandbox videogame ever made.
29 Apr 2010
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Two-Handed Great Sword Demonstration.
Amazingly ridiculous wish-fulfillment video for fantasy nerds everywhere. Ever wonder what a huge-ass sword is actually capable of? Watch and learn.
25 Apr 2010
In the pub on friday the subject of geek pilgrimages cropped up. Trips to MIT, One Infinite Loop, the Googleplex, that sort of thing. I've yet to partake myself, but I can definitely see the appeal.
In a similar vein, I mentioned Code Rush, only to be met by blank looks all round.
A documentary from the close of the nineties, about crunch time at Netscape in the run-up to the release of Mozilla. If you haven't seen it and those words evoke anything for you, then you should. Jamie Zawinski, Brendan Eich, history, pathos, what more do you need?
(Credit due to Andy Baio who was fairly instrumental a year or two ago in re-kindling interest in the film and inspiring the film-makers to re-release it under a Creative Commons license.)
24 Apr 2010
So you're an internerd who spends far too much time thinking about games, right?
In that case, I'm sure you have some favourite websites that regurgitate press releases and opine at great length and so on, but don't your eyes get tired reading all those cramped-up little letters? Seems to me that the audio-visual side of things is sometimes under-explored. There's some great episodic stuff out there that you might be missing out on.
For example, are you following any of the following?:
Audio
- Idle Thumbs - Industry types meet to talk games. Infectious giggling, stream of consciousness riffing, and passionate discourse ensues.
- A Life Well Wasted - Polished mix of documentary, interviews & soundscapes in the manner of This American Life.
Video
There's a few more that I tried but couldn't stick with. Zero Punctuation was OK at first, but the style got old pretty quickly. There's the various offerings from the Penny Arcade media empire, but their latest PATV stuff seems a little bit self-aggrandizing in places. And there's Tom Vasel's Dice Tower. That guy's just too prolific to keep up with, although I liked the Top 100 run-downs with his daughters.
So that's my contributions. Know of any others I should be paying attention to?
8 Dec 2009
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Games Britannia.
Three part series on BBC4 and iPlayer about the history of board games in Britain, "from the Iron Age to the Information Age".
24 Jun 2009
12 Mar 2009
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Erlang: The Movie.
"Declarative RealTime Programming Now!". Deliciously geeky & awkward OU-style promo film for the wacky Swedish language everyone loves to name-drop.
22 Feb 2009
12 Feb 2009
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Skiena's Algorithms Lectures.
Video lectures and slides from a course based around Steve Skiena's book The Algorithm Design Manual. Which has been languishing on my Amazon wish list for a while now following a hearty recommendation from Steve Yegge.
31 Oct 2008
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When Zeppelins Ruled the Earth.
A five-minute lightning talk on airships and their disastrous history. Nobody does infectious enthusiasm quite like Simon Willison.
7 Oct 2008
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Dtrace Review.
Bryan Cantrill giving a Google Tech Talk on Sun's (and his) Dtrace debugging tool. Gets way too gnarly and kernelicious for me in the middle, but still very entertaining and informative.
24 Sep 2008
10 Sep 2008
30 Aug 2008
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Slime mold and mushroom growth.
Short video with timelapse photography of our mycological overlords. Creepy, beautiful, and otherworldly like War of the Worlds' Red Weed or Half Life's Xen levels. I love the hexagonal net canopies that some of the mushrooms produce.
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Adam Savage talk at The Last Hope conference.
Fantastic talk on his obsessive sculptural projects to build replicas of a Dodo skeleton and the Maltese Falcon, plus lots of audience Q&A on various aspects of Mythbusters and movie effects.
14 Aug 2008
1 Aug 2008
18 Jul 2008
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Ryan.
Impressive and inventive CG animated short film on damaged individuals and the life of animator Ryan Larkin. Vaguely reminiscent of Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly.
13 May 2008
8 May 2008
5 Mar 2008
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TED | Talks | Alan Kay.
On teaching ideas, mainly with reference to children. With some demos of squeak, the $100 laptop and a couple of fun proofs of basic maths concepts.
10 Jan 2008
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Make your own vacuum tubes?
Not without a lot of skill, time, patience and tools you won't. You can live vicariously though, through this amazing 17 minute video of a French amateur radio operator showing you how he does it.
28 Dec 2007
20 Dec 2007
17 Oct 2007
21 Sep 2007
8 Sep 2007
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The Shock Doctrine.
Short film based on Naomi Klein's new book, produced and co-wrtten by Alfonso Cuarón, director of Children of Men
7 Aug 2007
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Tech 5 Engine Exploration.
John Carmack demos the tools and engine for Rage. I used to wonder when this kind of thing would finally become possible. Looks like we might finally be seeing the back of repeating patterns.
27 Jul 2007
19 Jul 2007
16 Jul 2007
12 Jun 2007
15 Jan 2007
7 Jan 2007
23 Nov 2006
9 Nov 2006
18 Apr 2006
20 Aug 2005
