Infinite Th0ught & Cinestatic Research

Blog and Website worth a look from a wider perspective of the course, Anything Ballardian always piques my interest.

Game Culture – a starter for 1

In readiness for the Game Culture option of the course I’ve been trying to get into the swing of things and I’ve found Convergence, The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies from SageJournals (type in convergence). The September 2007 issue has several interesting and useful articles for a first foray into gaming and an especially good one (Let Me Take You To The Movies) with an introduction to play. A hardcopy is available at the UWE library.

Nice site

I found this while researching for my essay, and  thought how beautifully simple it is as an interface, and very beautiful photographs too.

http://www.billatkinson.com/Homepage.pl

Photosynth

New image representation technology ‘seadragon‘ provided by tech.co.uk

Nice Interface About the History of the Digital Age

Over at the BBC

It’s Nearly Here…

Christmas was coming
Geese were clapping on weight like there was no tomorrow
And hats were full of assorted coinage from all the four corners of the globe.
It mattered not that one had neither low denomination currency
Nor the lowest denomination, currently in circulation and legal tender itself
For God in his heaven would shower his beneficence, like the snow that would surely fall
On all.

Sky Lights

 

 

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Alternate Reality Gaming – a starting point

With next term/semester/whatever coming up in the new year (but do enjoy Christmas first!) I thought I’d draw our collective attentions to thew ARGNet which can act as a jump-point for Alternate Reality Gaming. It may prove useful when in the full throes of the chosen module…

Interactive Novel on a Handheld Console

Nintendo’s DS is the ‘handheld’ arm of its domination of the gaming industry at present and with ‘Braintraining’ and other ‘Casual/Family/other than hardcore games’ at every turn of a webpage it’s great to see something a little bit different. There is a bit about plot, what’s looked for in a game and its development.

Hotel Dusk: Room 215 is an interactive novel and the article about its creation is worth a look.

A blogging definitive from the man who named the thing

 This Wired article by Jorn Barger lays out how to blog and he should know – he invented the term!

Who says Games are not art?

Found this on Wired. The game Halo 3 has an editor called ‘Forge’ that allows you to add to the Halo 3 maps and drop ammunition etc. which you can then use when you play the game next time.

Here’s an example of someone using it creatively/artistically…