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jtotheizzoe: Pokémon vs Phylomon Since a 2002 study showed that kids knew more about the types of Pokémon than they did common wildlife species, the creators of Phylo have devised a solution: A trading card game based on real species knowledge. Phylomon! Gotta classify ‘em all! Think it could work? I dunno. Until we can…
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polygondotcom: “We were actually, I think, the first North American developers to see the Wii U,” begins Slaczka, as he lays out the history of Unlimited’s development over the phone. “We’re very close to Nintendo and we’ve done very well on their platform, so they came by and showed us a prototype of the Wii…
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mahir: Sometimes it’s good to remember the oldies. One of the most important network diagram in the modern history designed by researcher Paul Baran in RAND Corporation. Baran suggested a third alternative—a distributed network—a communication network which will allow several hundred major communications stations to talk with one another after an enemy attack. (Baran, Rand Memorandum…
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laphamsquarterly: Lincoln logs may have been named after the nation’s 16th president, but did you know that they were invented by the son of Frank Lloyd Wright, and molded from models used in the building of Wright’s Imperial Hotel? Apparently the earthquake-proof construction utilized interlocking pieces of concrete, a strategy that translated well to the…
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Stay small or go big?
jkottke: Emeril Lagasse made an appearance on Treme on Sunday. I watched a clip of his scene a few days ago and have been thinking about it on and off ever since. In the scene written by Anthony Bourdain, Emeril takes a fellow chef to the building that used to house Uglesich’s, a small-but-beloved New…
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Micro — Independent Publishing Festival
border-studies: Wish I could have been at this.. Looks great. zwei-zehn: Read More
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zenbubbha: Istanbul Design Biennial A robotic kinetic sculpture continuously updates a mural based on a Wikipedia page about open-source architecture to demonstrate how the page evolves. (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)
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Design for the New Normal | superflux
Design for the New Normal | superflux
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Does it mean that if you want a deeply emotional game, you should drop regular gameplay, with all its core combat loops, gameplay mechanics and other voodoo? Yes. But if we remove the challenge and trial and error gameplay from video games, can we even still call them video games? Who cares? Adrian Chmielarz, Why…
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heyoscarwilde: Happy 78th Birthday Carl Sagan (born November 9, 1934) Carl Sagan (Scribblenauts style) illustrated by Aaron Thornton :: via altoidyoda.deviantart.com