July 2008
22 posts
The Totoro Forest Project →
A fund raising exhibition/auction to support the national trust Totoro Forest Foundation established by Oscar winning film maker Hayo Miyazaki, featuring original art created by internationally acclaimed artists in the fields of animation, comic books, and illustration.
Randy Pausch, noted CMU prof, succumbs to cancer →
The Scratchware Manifesto
I read this long ago, and I still feel it’s important to remember. Here’s the important part:
We will develop for open platforms, not proprietary consoles.
We will work in the white-hot ferment of our own imaginations, striving to produce games of enduring merit, games so fine that generations to come will point to them and say, this, this was important in the creation of the great...
What's my Motivation?
I feel motivated at work, but I don’t feel so motivated to work on my personal projects. Why’s that? Am I satisfied with what I do at work? The kind of stuff I do there is different and less personal, though! It makes me a bit sad that I’m happy by just learning new things and accomplishing small portions of grander tasks instead of exploring and working hard on crazy...
Kurt Vonnegut: How to Write With Style →
cubicle17:
Why should you examine your writing style with the idea of improving it? Do so as a mark of respect for your readers, whatever you’re writing. If you scribble your thoughts any which way, your readers will surely feel that you care nothing about them. They will mark you down as an egomaniac or a chowderhead —- or, worse, they will stop reading you.
“Everything passes, everything changes. Just do what you think you should do.”
– Bob Dylan (via scout)
Raph's Website » A game designer’s core skills →
The two hardest and most critical skills for a game designer (IMHO):
Be able to see the game with no hint of artwork, music, sound, anything — the bare rules, bare mechanics, bare actions, stats, feedback loops. The skeleton, the core, the bone and sinew of it, without any dressing, as a shifting, moving mechanical construct of guy wires and rigid struts. It’s not an attack, it’s force...
The State of the Web - Summer 2008 →
(via livejamie)
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.”
– Albert Einstein (via misscedar)
“I don’t make movies to make money — I make money to make movies.”
– Walt Disney (via dherman)
Programming: The New Literacy →
obsessivecompulsive:
Power will soon belong to those who can master a variety of expressive human-machine interactions.
“As the century goes on, those who don’t program — who can’t bend their increasingly sophisticated computers, machines, cars, and homes to their wills and needs — will, I predict, be increasingly left behind. Parents and teachers often disrespect today’s young people for being...
FOX News Gets Ugly →
livejamie:
When profiling two New York Times reporter, they gave them the “ugly” treatment using Photoshop, distorting their features and giving them yellow teeth. Wtf?
“I have a telephone instrument on my desk. I rarely use it. Most of the calls I...”
– Douglas Crockford (via azspot)
WatchMidway Mania’s Interactive Gaming Joyride