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Day of Lolz

2011-10-23T11:21:00.007-04:00

It's been a while since my last DoL page (and in fact, the whole series). Nothing satirical or gritty to find here. Merely mockery. Mockery of the stupidity that's spread around about video games, or erected while diverging from irrelevant matters. Take UGO. They think they also have their own games as art page of ten most fitting titles. Check those games, really. Everything is in there.All

Some stuff about Mario Bros and the Wii version

2011-10-01T17:19:00.001-04:00

Be sure not to miss those three pages! Snippet: Mario Couldn't Jump At First Iwata In this interview, we're going to talk about New Super Mario Bros. Wii, but rather than diving straight into a discussion of the new title, I'd like to begin by talking about Mario's roots. There will of course be a lot of readers who know all about this, but I think there are also people who are completely in

thatgamecompany sucks at making games

2011-09-26T09:48:00.005-04:00

I've been trying to get more information about what the core leaders of the studio named thatgamecompany had in mind when it came to video games. There's a variety of material to browse, and one source I found interesting to check out, since rather easy to go through and simple to understand, was a short video. Here is something interesting. Pay attention from 1:26. Some anon from

Nonsensical Interactive Boredom (NIB)

2011-09-16T20:59:00.046-04:00

Nonsense. That's all there is about Ernest Adams’ article titled The Designer's Notebook: Sandbox Storytelling. The more I read about him, the more he just looks like a fraudster to me, a self appointed theorist on game design and video games as a whole. We have this return of the "emergence" boner. This time, it’s not about something as vague as gameplay, but about story. The claims is that a

Street Fighter Real

2011-09-16T18:35:00.000-04:00

That's some powerful ultra.

Foldback story - yeah whatever

2011-09-16T18:32:00.007-04:00

Today I've learned a new term. Foldback story. I've done without it for years in the industry, and yet I'm supposed to have missed something fundamental. I wanted to learn more about it and after a few strokes on my keyboard, grand master Google sent me here. Inn the chapter on “Storytelling and Narrative” in Fundamentals of Game Design (pages 194-204), Adams & Rollings categorise stories as

A perfect game is...

2011-08-20T14:10:00.002-04:00

Answering the implied question of this article... >> Sean Malstrom largely confuses higher with wider. His claims on pop music just reek off silly leftism, global dumbing down. You need a core of high quality that keeps pushing the bar higher, so the mainstream can't allow itself to reach for the lowest denominator. Likewise, Dickens' and Shakespeare's words were appreciated by a limited amount

Youtube's obsession about sex - Part II

2011-08-09T10:08:00.001-04:00

Just to illustrate my former claim: Click on the picture for the full size display. Oi! Update time! I guess there's never enough incentits... erm, incentive to tittytainment.

Youtube's obsession about sex

2011-07-03T12:35:00.001-04:00

- It's really getting on my nerves. - What? - Youtube. - But why? - They keep suggesting videos, they're sexually orientated. - Sure. When? - When? How can I tell? Oh, I know. Let me tell you when. When, is after playing videos which have nothing to do with sex whatsoever. Be it stuff about games, music, zebras or air traffic, I get to see buttocks at some point in the suggested videos, either as

Megaman X cover : Storm Eagle

2011-06-28T21:19:00.003-04:00

I loved Megaman X. And one of the reasons for that is that it came with some of the most awesome tunes ever produced for a video game. As always, a fitting music can literally transcend a game, just like Star Wars would have never been Star Wars with muzac. So I was massaging my memories if I may say and going another round of nostalgia. I went looking for the original themes, I saw those links

Just so don't forget how Google Inc. thinks

2011-06-22T12:40:00.001-04:00

Remembers what the terms of service were for Chrome, before the update: 11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate,

Rick Dangerous vs Super Meat Boy

2011-05-31T11:30:00.001-04:00

Who owns?

Sony Sued

2011-05-08T18:36:00.000-04:00

Serves them right.

Paystation

2011-04-30T09:14:00.007-04:00

Oh boy. This isn't getting any better. I hope most of this is bollocks. OK, it's not like Sony is short on doing things wrong, but still. After getting its database hacked, the secret group behind this action offered Sony to buy "back" this data but they declined (which is understandable). It's unclear if the claims about personal info and credit card essential numbers are true. Still....

New Synaps joypad

2011-04-18T08:41:00.000-04:00

Among many things, what I love about video games is the introduction of new controllers, ideas gone wild. Sometimes, there are failures, sometimes there are fads, and sometimes there are genuine breakthroughs that feel like they're perfectly balanced. So I would strongly recommend reading this article about the Synaps splitable joypad. It's choke full of good ideas, although I'd have some cons

Microsoft Word - turd since 97-98

2011-04-11T10:17:00.000-04:00

Simply put, Microsoft Word is a retarded application. No matter the iteration, since 97-98, it's been riddled with completely unintuitive automatic functions that decide to alter your damned document on a whim, without warning, and outside of any operable logic. And every single f***ing time you think you have understood the inner arcane secrets of the machine and seized its threads in order to

US people watch too much TV

2011-04-03T19:21:00.003-04:00

That's basically what the Nielsen ratings are just too polite to say. Here's some stuff I wrote about some flabbergasting figures briefly alluded to in a Gamasutra article. My text deals with the daily consumption of TV in the USA, although the original article itself was not about that. 5 hours on the average, no matter how you spin that, is totally worrying. I mean, if it's like 2 hours a

Double Jump

2011-03-18T07:35:00.001-04:00

your doing plaftorming in your game but ain't puting the doable jump in it's game design? u suck! im prolly say something obvoius but itd be muc better with triple jump coz thats advanced so you can do more stuff and we dont care if its no logical or dont makes sense in teh game

Awesome Halo Reach (not) censored (?)

2011-03-17T16:40:00.001-04:00

We might say that this video is funny. In a way, yes, it is funny. However, I'm disturbed by the fact that Youtube lets it be viewed by anyone, of any age. The profanity, vulgarity and sexual imagery, plus the hellish and nightmarish gross distortions of human bodies... that's some material I surely wouldn't want my kids to see, cartoon or not. Cartoon doesn't even begin to excuse the laxism. Why

Youtube Revolution

2011-03-13T08:18:00.002-04:00

Remember when you could watch a video without having to sit through commercials? Remember when music videos were uploaded by users and not VEVO Remember when all the info was to the right of the video? Remember you could rate a video 1-5 stars? Remember the famous yellow subscribe button? Remember when the users controlled the site and not corporations? Post

Ooowwwyyeeaaaahh

2011-03-10T06:01:00.000-05:00

Already Chrome 11 but snot enough

2011-03-08T03:30:00.002-05:00

When you think that my browser war sheet was published like four months ago only, and Chrome was at the 7th version, aptly named 7.0... I couldn't help but wonder why the hell they still bothered with the .0 part. Considering that their strategy of who has the longest dick is just to be sure to have the greatest post count version number, they could streamline said number. Why don't they give us

Loreno Confortini, level design alla maniera antica?

2011-02-17T10:46:00.002-05:00

There are days like that when you feel quite a bit more lucky than usual. I wouldn't tell you how I came across Mr. Confortini's website, it's so convoluted that it wouldn't even make sense. Point is, praise gracious Eriounios and King Wan, for Mr. Confortini may seem to be an obscure artist not particularly renowned outside of certain Italian circles, and yet he deserves more light than he

Just a database about nuclear tests

2011-02-04T10:02:00.001-05:00

Check it out. A lot of these videos can be found on streaming websites as well. Just in case you want to make a realistic nuclear bang in your future game. Try to look for a 1 kiloton test as well. Makes a fireball that's about 60 meters wide.

3DS vs NGP

2011-01-30T09:12:00.004-05:00

Let's compare both Nintendo's 3DS and Sony's NGP. The first one is going to sell like hot cakes, again, merely because of that cool 3D gimmick, but which will surely will add very little to substantial matters. This simple addition, totally superficial, which by the way is far from perfect the moment you're not standing right in front of the screen (the image doubles when you're a bit off-axis)