Phil Steinmeyer is posting early drafts of possible future casual games. This is kind of a neat concept. I’ve thought about doing a series of posts with the process of tossing together a game on here, but ended up not doing it because of the work involved…
I just realized that many probably didn’t get my joke/pun regarding double-coded languages in yesterday’s Sunday Poem, so I figured I had better point you to Chef, an example of one that I was introduced to while at Living Game Worlds.
The below is interpretable, valid code in Chef. I was told that the goal in the class at GTech was for students to not only write code, but bring in tasty muffins for the class. I guess they had to both compile and cook their recipes. 🙂
Dale Herigstad is a multi-Emmy winner, and Executive Creative Director at Schematic, a design firm that specializes in interfaces. You can read all about him here. His talk wasn’t about games per se, but rather about broader technical currents in the TV industry and how they are converging with games. Here’s my notes, only slightly cleaned up.
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…to get sick. 😛 Been knocked out since sometime yesterday, with a head cold or something — at leats it’s not the stomach flu version! All of us have been fighting it…
I wanted to write about Mirrormask, since I spent all night dreaming about it in that strange quasi-hallucinatory way you do when you’re ill, but I don’t feel up for sitting at the keyboard.
Now I am off to conquer the kingdoms of orange juice and their treacherous allies chicken soup. 😛
Apple isn’t very good at limericks. I mean, are “pirate” and “great” supposed to rhyme?
Yeesh.
The Age of the Computer Poem
It began when Apple let loose
With their copyright-defending Truth(tm):
Embedding bad rhymes within coding,
Chmodding the zeitgeist, foreboding,
And opening heretofore shut doors
That scare deep in multicores:
Whe’er pentameter’s big or little endian,
And runs on platforms Intellian…
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