Cool retro homage!
Gimme Indie Game: Runhello’s Jumpman – Offworld.
Threw me for a moment though, since there WAS a game called Jumpman. It’s not that one. 🙂
Game talk
This is the catch-all category for stuff about games and game design. It easily makes up the vast majority of the site’s content. If you are looking for something specific, I highly recommend looking into the tags used on the site instead. They can narrow down the hunt immensely.
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CA’s video game law ruled unconstitutional
The battle continues. This is still that Leland Yee bill that was blocked in 2006, on appeal.
LOS ANGELES–A U.S. appeals court ruled Friday that a California law restricting the sales and rental of violent video games to minors and imposing labeling requirements is too restrictive and violates free-speech guarantees.
The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that the labeling requirement unfairly forces video games to carry “the state’s controversial opinion” about which games are violent.
via California’s video game law ruled unconstitutional – CNET News.
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The Pub Game, for designers!
From Sheri Graner Ray, The Pub Game. In short, you take an experience, in this case a restaurant, and describe it as if done by different designers. For the record, I think she overestimates my design skills. 🙂
If Sid Meier created this restaurant, first we’d have to invent the Chinese, and the Koreans and all the other Asian cultures before we could invent the food that would then be served in the restaurant…
If Will Wright created this restaurant, we’d have to continually monitor what each employee was doing, instructing them when to cook, when to clean and when to go to the bathroom, but eventually, it would burn down anyway.. and if it didn’t a natural disaster would occur to make sure it was destroyed.
If Richard Garriott created this restaurant, it would have been started by him and a number of his friends. At the restaurant, the customers could harvest the grain, mill it into flour, mix it and bake it into bread… which of course would have nothing to do with anything on the menu
If Raph Koster created this restaurant, it would be completely self contained. It would be completely automated, adjusting its menus to reflect the changing seasons, regulating its resource consumption based on available crops and making the food. It wouldn’t even need customers.. in fact, customers could just watch as it ran itself!
If Brenda Brathwaite created this restaurant, it woud be staffed by naked people and the customers would have to order their meals from a terminal equiped only with an excel spread sheet
If Sheri Graner Ray created this restaurant, there would be extensive discussion on the new diner experience and how to create the easiest onramp to the restaurant and making sure all dining styles were accounted for.. this would all then be put into a visio flowchart before any work on building the restaurant could begin.
If John Carmack created this restaurant, it would be just like his other restaurants, except much prettier.
If Steve Mereztsky created this restaurant, an octopus, a priest, and a cowboy would immediately walk up to the bar….
Add your own!
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First MP Insider video — HILARIOUS
The Metaplace Insider: MP World Review – Zoo Escape!.
Words fail, I actually have tears in my eyes. 🙂
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Flash 10 on smartphones
The apparently inexorable march of Flash on its way to becoming the default interactive platform continues.
BARCELONA–A full-fledged version of the Adobe Flash player is coming soon to a whole slew of smartphones. Unfortunately, Apple’s iPhone isn’t one of them.
Adobe announced at the GSMA Mobile World Congress here Monday that Flash Player 10, which is the full version of Flash that runs on PCs, will be available on smartphones running Windows Mobile, Google’s Android, Nokia S60/Symbian, and the new Palm operating systems. Devices with Flash Player 10 are expected to hit the market starting in early 2010.
via Flash 10 coming to most smartphones in 2010 | 3GSM blog – CNET Reviews.
Not sure there is any analysis here I can offer that I haven’t before: unless a competitor steps up their game faster, Flash is going to be the default renderer for the most commonly required forms of interactive graphics. And it’s going to continue getting better.