Everyone else is pointing to Flow, so I might as well.
A while back, after seeing Spore, I wrote down in my design notebook (actually a Word doc on my machine), “You could do just the first level as a casual game.”
Lo and behold, here it is. First time I loaded it, btw, no critters appeared at all — so if you find yourself in a completely empty space, try reloading or heading for the circles that pop on the edge.
Kloonigames
is a new blog where the author is going to try to make a game month. He did his first one shooting for seven days of development, but actually finished it in three.
I noticed it because of this great summary article with a bunch of pointers to articles on rapid prototyping, something which I consider indispensable to the game design process. It’s worth following all the links, a very handy resource!
John M. Ford, who wrote the magnificent fantasy novel The Dragon Waiting: A Masque of History and the funniest Star Trek novel ever written, has passed away.
This is important, and yet another sign of convergence.
The Daily Graze » Blog Archive » Laguna Beach Episode Premieres in VLB
On Tuesday, September 26th at 9:00 PM EDT, MTV will premier next week’s episode of Laguna Beach a day early in the virtual world of Virtual Laguna Beach. The in-world airing of the “Winter Formal” episode will be followed by a virtual Winter Formal event.
