Friday, 31 August, 2007 – 07:27
Ken Levine on BioShock: The Spoiler Interview
Don’t read if you haven’t finished BioShock, but there’s some great story-related conversation here with Ken Levine about some of the ins and outs of the story and how it works.
(tags: bioshock xbox360 interview games story narrative)
Wednesday, 29 August, 2007 – 09:39
I desperately want to join in on forum threads and read up on the Internet about what I have just experienced this evening, but since I have not yet completed all the tasks in front of me, and I’m trying very, very hard to remain spoiler-free, I am simply avoiding all talk about it with [...]
Tuesday, 28 August, 2007 – 17:00
Not realizing that I had done so, I mistakenly left an upgrade to the most recent beta build of WordPress in my directory without running the corresponding database upgrade; this left my site partially inaccessible for a decent portion of the afternoon.
I’m also running unstable WordPress code for the time being, so if things get [...]
Sunday, 26 August, 2007 – 07:26
Game Design Essentials: 20 Difficult Games
Games used to be hard. Really hard. And you had to play through them in one shot. So why, and what was the art behind game difficulty?
(tags: design development game games howto history software)
Saturday, 25 August, 2007 – 07:24
Would you kill ‘Little Sisters’? Quincy company challenges taboos with game violence
The first of the inevitable articles about BioShock and its game mechanic of the creepy Little Sisters as adversaries… or friends.
(tags: bioshoch xbox360 violence games)
Friday, 24 August, 2007 – 07:37
Wordpress cheatsheets summarized
Great resource for printable cheatsheets for commonly-used WordPress variables and syntax. Great tool for site builders.
(tags: blog blogging cms design development howto programming reference web wordpress)
HTML, CSS, PHP, and More Cheat Sheets
Second set of resources for WordPress programmers for one-sheet references to syntax and other tools.
(tags: blog blogging css design development howto programming [...]
Thursday, 23 August, 2007 – 07:29
Halo 3: How Microsoft Labs Invented a New Science of Play
Unbelievable article about how Bungie has been calbrating the right amount of “fun” factor into Halo 3 and has learned from the mistakes of their past. Great article from a psychological and a design perspective.
(tags: games halo psychology software xbox360 testing microsoft)
Spanning Sync
Neat-o utility that [...]
Wednesday, 22 August, 2007 – 07:29
Tutorials » WPDesigner
Nice little battery of tutorials on how to get the most out of theming WordPress. Covers a range of topics from layout to PHP calls to typography with CSS.
(tags: design tutorial howto wordpress)
Tuesday, 21 August, 2007 – 07:41
“The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.”
Tuesday, 21 August, 2007 – 07:27
Strong Bad E-Mail #175
You can stop watching after you see Limozeen’s concert rider. It’s all downhill from there.
(tags: homestarrunner video flash funny strongbad)
Breaking: More Info in on Paramount’s Move to HD DVD
Man, what? Please explain to me what kind of sense this makes in any universe.
(tags: hddvd bluray movies dvd)
Paramount adopts HD DVD, kicks Blu-ray [...]
Tuesday, 21 August, 2007 – 00:42
Some of this information will be duplicated in my daily links post from del.icio.us tomorrow morning, but I find it irritating enough that I should say something about it.
What an… interesting day today in the format war between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray Disc. I found out about it via a Twitter post from Microsoft’s Major [...]
Monday, 20 August, 2007 – 14:56
It was bound to happen sooner or later. For the first real time in the history of this household, a round of sickness is washing throughout the entire family. Joshua started the madness last week Wednesday, and it seems as though he tried to close the circle last night with another round.
The youngest two have [...]