2008

Jul

Randy Pausch, noted CMU prof, succumbs to...

UI Candy: Audi’s new MMI - (37signals) “And...

The Scratchware Manifesto

I read this long ago, and I still feel it’s important to remember. Here’s the important...

What's my Motivation?

I feel motivated at work, but I don’t feel so motivated to work on my personal projects....

(via bradofarrell) Okay I’m not THAT selfish, but the...

Aside from The Dark Knight, Hayao Miyazaki’s Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (Gake no ue no...

Kurt Vonnegut: How to Write With Style

handa: Cabanon Press: Gallery (via emeline)

RA DIOHEA_D / HOU SE OF_C ARDS

“Everything passes, everything changes. Just do what you...”
— Bob Dylan (via scout)

Raph's Website » A game designer’s core...

simko: eatPES’ newest (creative) stop-motion short entitled “Western Spaghetti” (via). Brilliant.

gina: Adrian doing Super Mario Bros.

The State of the Web - Summer 2008

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must...”
— Albert Einstein (via...

“I don’t make movies to make money — I make money to make...”
— Walt Disney (via dherman)

Programming: The New Literacy

FOX News Gets Ugly

“I have a telephone instrument on my desk. I rarely use it....”
— Douglas Crockford (via...

Midway Mania’s Interactive Gaming Joyride

Jun

Dexter is quite the series. No wonder it’s made for Showtime. You can still catch it on DVD,...

“No amount of the best animation in the world will ever save...”
— John Lasseter in The Art of...

toratorazero: vlbg023034.jpg My new Desktop background!

Excellence

It’s what the teams at Pixar have mastered. I really hope they don’t lose it, ever; I...

perpetua: Weezer and Weezer fans perform a cover of Radiohead’s “Creep.” Some people bitch about...

Why Objective-J, Cappuccino and SproutCore...

PHD Comics: The F-1 Process Explained

George Carlin on “the American Dream”

“Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people...”
— George Carlin

Disney's New Toy Story Ride Ready To Amuse

Firefox 3 is here!

2008 Web Design Trends

“I don’t go to [a live-action movie and] and say, ‘Oh,...”
— The Pixar Blog: Andrew Stanton...

WALL-E: Pixar Goes Space Age

(via garfieldminusgarfield)

Around the World

chiguire: Radiohead’s Nude Cover. Made with a Spectrum ZX, a printer, a scanner, and an...

“When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare...”
— Lao Tse (via vinh)

Understanding Comics

Why we skip Photoshop - (37signals)

May

Fullbright: Call to Arms 2008

Nine skills that separate good and great designers

Randy Pausch Inspires Graduates.

Al Gore’s Keynote Speech from my graduation.

The true story of me dealing with Windows Vista. :( PS: Just get Windows XP. It does the same thing...

New Toy Story Mania! ride is a midway marvel...

In the circus, when a member of the crew means, the jugglers get together and do their most...

Commencement '08 - Carnegie Mellon...

Wonderland - Yeondoo Jung

ideas: Logo Mashups

Daniel Burka - FOWD London 2008 Slides

Currently playing Boom Blox. It’s fun playing with...

Apple Mac Music Video

A C3PO Sighting in Pittsburgh

Pixar’s Brad Bird on Fostering Innovation

Seth's Blog: The Media markets

Television cable news embodies everything that I hate about the media.

Apr

Richard Bartle: Gamers have won the battle...

Fullbright: Credo

“Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants...”
— Kurt Vonnegut

Google User Experience

The Last Lecture: Randy Pausch, Jeffrey...

The secret to making money online - (37signals)

Raph's Website » Derivative games in 2008

Last week, I had Mark Hammill sign my copy of one of my...

World of Goo Trailer 2

Firefox 3 beta 5 now available for download

If you’re ever confused or not know what Flash...

More Than a Feeling

Filter (Game Design)

According to our Bandology adviser, Jesse Schell, it’s the processing made by the player of...

What if I met Homer J. Simpson… in real life?

“DrWatson Postmortem Debugger has encountered a problem and...”
— Microsoft Windows XP on...

Okay, so it wasn't so terrifying...

The master class for the art of play went pretty well. Most of the critics liked what we showed for...

Taking the kids: Disney magic behind the...

Playing the Art

I’ll be attending a master class for the art of play summit tomorrow. We are going to be...

Mar

Sometimes I feel that the difference between my friends and...

Three Years Later: I finished The Sands...

I finally completed Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. I got the game right after undergrad and...

ideas: Sony hates you, offers $50 “Fresh Start” option to...

El Juego del Fin de Semana: Saturday School....

The Origin Of The iChat UI — Thought Palace

Signal Vs. Noise - Title Sequences from Saul Bass, the master of film title design

YouTube 2007 Video Awards - Vote!

“Vista makes me feel like my computer has an agenda of its...”
— The continuing saga of a Mac...

Braid » Blog Archive » Battlefield: Heroes This is...

I finished Portal, finally.

While Portal takes approximately 3 hours long to complete, I actually played it on and off for the...

David Hellman - The Art of Braid, Part II: No Shame in...

Official Google Blog: YouTube finds its way...

the art of play

Batman’s Burden: A Director Confronts...

I just played Carcassonne for the first time (the board...

HBO Intro: Behind the Scenes (via ) When modelling actually meant physically modelling objects to...

chiguire: Echochrome - M.C. Escher meets gameplay. Just wow. Via robmv update.

Texturing Assignment!

The Artful Gamer · Dramatic Genius: LucasArts...

“The architect should strive continually to simplify; the...”
— Architect Frank Lloyd Wright...

GDC 08: Experimental Gameplay Sessions

“[John] Lasseter didn’t set out to run Disney Animation. Nor...”
— Gamasutra - The Art Of Games

Gravitation: a video game by Jason Rohrer Jason is...

Feb

It's so Goo-d!

I pre-ordered World of Goo, a game co-created by an alumn from the ETC, and with it came a preview...

Retro Sabotage - Compromise

Gesundheit! is awesome! Only the demo is currently...

From Here to Awesome: What happens when the independent film industry becomes a market and starts...

The Escapist: Game Rules as Art

Back from GDC 2008

It feels a little weird being bac; I was just in San Francisco yesterday and I took the red-eye back...

IndieGames.com - The Weblog - Announcement:...

PlayFirst Signs Acclaimed Developer Wadjet...

Blu-Ray Wins HD Disc Format Battle; Will Lose...

From the 20th century: Discs

If we live in a world of downloadable and portable media formats (as in, it works everywhere), then...

Today, I played Shit Game.

Level Up : The Problem (and the Danger) of...

Level Up : The Problem (and the Danger) of...

“The situations and conflicts expressed in games don’t...”
— Fullbright: Wager

Will Disney Keep Us Amused? - New York Times An extensive...

Gleemax at the Independent Games Festival

Kloonigames » Grammar Nazi

Disney wants your child online: MMOs for...

GDC Game: An idea just popped into my...

I continue to be exhausted, but I took a nap sometime in the afternoon which gave me enough strength...

GDC Game: Exhausted

I continue to be exhausted. There are many questions popping into my head: Where should I work?...

“Could Microsoft now attempt to exert the same sort of...”
— David Drummond, Senior Vice...

Lunch Money is this cool card game I used to play with my...

2-Week Game Design Challenge

There are two weeks left until I fly to San Francisco for the Game Developers Conference. I have...

Looking for Job

I want to work somewhere that is constantly making insteresting and different games/interactive...

Jan

My first 3D Model! Requirements: Ford Model T, Max. 1,000...

Learning how to model. Using Maya 2008.

Battlefield Heroes: How EA shamelessly plagiarized the Team...

Terrifying...

Pirates of the Caribbean Online, a game I worked on, has commercials playing on [adult swim].

Cursor*10 (nekogames)

“I think the solution would be to create a...”
— Undergraduate programming -...

Jim Hill : A special "Where's WALL-E" edition...

“What is Scrum, you ask? It’s a set of new terminology for...”
— Five Short Video Game Industry...

Web Playgrounds of the Very Young - New York...

Raph’s Website » Does static info work...

2007

Dec

Fullbright: Noir

Passage: a Gamma256 video game by Jason Rohrer You have to...