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(Visited 7989 times) Game talk
Jan 282009
Closure — fantastic Flash game
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Jan 282009
Closure is really clever. All I will say is “light == map.”
Jan 282009
Gabe McGrath writes,
Hi Raph,
Found your blog via Technorati, whilst searching for more “retro remakes”. I hit this page. Don’t know if you (or your readers) would be interested, but the RR site was hacked recently, so your link to the downloads *won’t* work. I have compiled all the “off site” links I could find (for each remake author) and put them on one blogpost. So there you go. Sorry if you’ve already “moved on”. (Thought it might be of interest.)
PS: Funny – I stumbled on your page, and couldn’t work out where I knew your name. Then I saw the book cover – OF COURSE! “Theory of Fun” – read about it on Boing Boing ages ago. Alas, it’s still sitting safely in my “amazon to buy list” as the Aussie dollar has tanked against yours. Hopefully it recovers soon, so I can build my game-related library. All the best 🙂
Hacked… that sucks. 🙁 Hopefully they recover quickly, it’s one of my favorite indie projects.
Neil Gaiman’s ‘Graveyard Book’ Wins Newbery Medal
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Jan 272009
Neil Gaiman’s ‘Graveyard Book’ Wins Newbery Medal – NYTimes.com.
I think all I can say is “Hurray!”
This means that your children will be assigned Neil Gaiman in school at some point. 🙂
Jan 272009
Rogue Leaders
Habitat title screen
Gamasutra is running an excerpt from Rogue Leaders, a new book on the history of LucasArts. The excerpt in question is about Habitat, which is of course one of the seminal virtual worlds. It’s short and worth a read, especially just to marvel at the reason givn for the project’s shelving: fear of success.
Essentially, if 500 users were so committed to playing Habitat that they remained online long enough to eat up 1 percent of the network’s entire system bandwidth, a full-run production that could attract Rabbit Jack’s Casino numbers could boost that bandwidth number to 30 percent. “The way the system was built, the server software wasn’t capable of hosting that population while still being successful,” recalls Arnold.
Ultimately, these business challenges caused Habitat to be cancelled after the launch party, but before it had gone into full production and reached retail shelves. It would simply be too popular, and the necessary server fix would be too expensive to make the project viable. And so this massively original, inventive, and cutting-edge project was shelved for U.S. release.
