RafaelFajardo

Category: words

  • emergentfutures: Thinking machines: the skilled jobs that could be taken over by robots on Thursday the Bank of England’s chief economist warned that this wave of automation is threatening skilled roles. The jobs of the middle classes, with their expensive university educations, are now at risk. As a result, a huge number of jobs that…

  • progress report

    progress report

    I watched some Unity 3D tutorials that helped me get past a mental block. it’s not apparent from the structures visible in the editor that one should create a game object to hold a script that controls the whole game. this could be a an empty gameObject, or – confusingly – could be one that’s…

  • But never before have I understood what Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote when he spoke of the Black Body in America. I think there is a story to be told with the Arab Body as well. The Native American Body. The Indigenous Body. The Latin American Body. The Indian Body. The Kurdish Body. The Pakistani Body. The…

  • nyugamecenter: “As a game designer I’m fascinated by the dog dynamics of play. Dogs, without spoken language, are able to communicate and negotiate with each other.” – Kevin Cancienne (The model featured is Cancienne’s dog, Princess.)

  • nyugamecenter: We use capsule colliders with two-legged characters in 3D games. But that doesn’t quite work for four-legged characters. Cancienne is extrapolating on how to capture the sinewy movement of dogs at play.

  • Modeling Mentorship

    Modeling Mentorship alexainslie: “Dustin Senos once shared with me a very thoughtful way of handling this that he used when he led design at Medium. Each person would get a chance to present their work and during this time, they would be the only person allowed to speak. When they were finished presenting, each person…

  • Participation is not agency Brian Moriarty on interactive stories referencing JM Barrie’s Peter Pan (via lightnarcissus)

  • nyugamecenter: Ray Bradbury’s prediction of interactive fiction, played out in the 1966 film adaptation of Fahrenheit 451 (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

  • Your choices didn’t matter. The ironic nature of branching narratives is established. Moriarty finds the quicktime events, the false choice, and the checkpoint undos of contemporary interactive fiction all in Kinoautomat (via nyugamecenter)

  • Joystick Nation: How Videogames Ate Our Quarters, Won Our Hearts, and Rewired Our Minds: J. C. Herz: 9780316360074: Amazon.com: Books

    Joystick Nation: How Videogames Ate Our Quarters, Won Our Hearts, and Rewired Our Minds: J. C. Herz: 9780316360074: Amazon.com: Books nyugamecenter: Joystick Nation by JC Herz. Leigh Alexander reminded the audience of Herz’ work. She was a game critic for the New York Times in 2001, who was writing intelligent things at a nearly forgotten…