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kevin — Mon, 03 May 2010 01:22:28 +0000

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Who is missing from Infinity Ward

kevin — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:23:01 +0000

My RSS feed has been clogged up with blog posts about who has left Modern Warfare 2’s developer, Infinity Ward, since the two guys that head the place were dispatched by Activision. It’s been difficult to make heads or tails of who has gone and how important they were. Luckily for the Internet, PC Gamer Magazine has edited MW2’s credits to illustrate the bloodbath.

You’ll notice that 5 out of 6 of the story people left. This might be addition by subtraction. Have you tried to follow the storyline of MW2? As far as I can tell after playing it through twice, it doesn’t make any sense. Although, to be honest, I’ve had trouble deciphering what exactly is going on in the first place.

This video makes me wish more industries used credits … like banking, or advertising.

Frogger Wants YOU!

kevin — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:30:32 +0000

Steve Thomas has put together some propaganda posters for classic 80s arcade games. They would’ve made great POS ads for the games as well. MW3 should steal this idea if anyone is left at Infinity Ward to finish the game. I’m sure we’ll just get the usual movie-trailer style ads though.

Samurai Star Wars

kevin — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 17:00:29 +0000

Steve Bialik has rendered characters from Star Wars as if they were in feudal Japan. Awesome.

Darth Vader

Jabba the Hutt

See them all at his blog.

The Geek Bomb: Destroying NYC with Retro Games

kevin — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 02:08:35 +0000

Baby Tickling Station

kevin — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 03:51:57 +0000

We’re having a baby in September, which is one of those things that always seemed like an incredibly far off thing. It doesn’t seem that long ago that news of someone my age getting pregnant required some careful thought about whether to congratulate or offer condolences.

But now here it is, and there are reminders everywhere about how it changes people’s lives, such as the sign above for the baby tickling station. It’ll be hard. I know that because people with kids can’t seem to get enough of telling us how hard having a kid is going to be. But then there are moments like when the plane landed tonight, and the 3-year old girl across the aisle yelled “WEEEEEEEEE!,” that make me feel really excited.

Feist (the game) looks exquisitely beautiful.

kevin — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 19:36:11 +0000

FEIST trailer 3 from Adrian Stutz on Vimeo.

I love the look and feel they’ve created for this game. It feels like a work of art in a way that a lot of games haven’t before…though the idea of having enemies in this game world seems almost wrong. Maybe it’s just the music in the video though.

Here’s hoping they port this to iPhone/pad/pods/boards/mats for us non-PC folk.

Here’s the website.

(via gameinformer)

Architecture for Humanity has a new mascot.

kevin — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 01:30:55 +0000

oh the hugh manatee.

(via here)

Game Based Marketing

kevin — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:04:41 +0000

The ever-vigilant Ilya has turned my attention to a recent book that is all about designing marketing games. I’m into it. Especially because I think most good marketing works because of the same pattern learning principles that make gaming so. much. fun. I’m looking forward to buying it. Though my recent car purchase means that I should probably wait. (or should I?)

Also on their Weblog, they’ve posted a slideshare presentation about using games for non-profits. As usual with these things, the voiceover would probably be really helpful, but it’s interesting enough without it.

Game Mechanics & Funware for Non-Profits

View more presentations from gzicherm.

Saul Bass: Why Man Creates

kevin — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:00:13 +0000

At this morning’s agency meeting, John Norman showed this clip from Saul Bass’ Oscar winning short film “Why Man Creates.” I thought it was interesting, especially when imagining what the addendum of the information age would look like at the end.

(You can buy the full version here.)