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“As former Grand Theft Auto dabblers, the above mod has to be one of the most simultaneously entertaining and disturbing things we’ve ever seen. The unknown hacker has modified the game so you now control a pair of giggling, uzi-toting schoolgirl anime twins who blow away gleeful Pikachu’s and a bad-ass Doraemon cruising around on the hovercycle from Metal Gear Solid. And be sure to check out the vehicle the girls start driving. Simply nuts.”
via Core77
My graduate project was mentioned on BBC yesterday.
A solution to international cross-language communication?
via TechCrunch
Jenova’s next game was announced at TGS. Here is the teaser:
“Love them or hate them, Apple’s impact in the world of product design is difficult to dispute, and even harder to emulate. But Digital Arts Online believes they have distilled Apple’s winning product design formula down into eight ‘secrets:’
Secret 1: Engineering supports design — no exceptions
Secret 2: Fewer is better
Secret 3: The experience is the product
Secret 4: The product is the product
Secret 5: You can’t please everyone, so please people with good taste
Secret 6: Leave the past behind
Secret 7: Product names are important. Really important
Secret 8: Group affiliation is the driver”
via Core77
World of Goo is a game from the mind of ETC alumn Kyle Gabler.
“Two Tokyo-based architects have turned PowerPoint into both art form and competitive sport. Their innovation, dubbed pecha-kucha (Japanese for “chatter”), applies a simple set of rules to presentations: exactly 20 slides displayed for 20 seconds each. The result, in the hands of masters of the form, combines business meeting and poetry slam to transform corporate cliché into surprisingly compelling beat-the-clock performance art.”
via Wired
“Earlier this year, the episode was nominated for an Emmy Award, and now we know that the Comedy Central show has officially won the ‘Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour).’ ”
via NextGen
“The creators of the ReactOgon call it a “chain reactive performance arpeggiator”, which dynamically shifts its patterns and sequences based on coded discs placed on the flat-panel interface. Each hexagonal cell on the surface represents a fixed note on the harmonic table. The placement of the discs influences the whether or not a note is played, as well as its placement in the sequence. By stringing together a number of directional discs, an entire musical sequence can be created. ”
via NOTCOT.org
