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Even if the original lyrics are off-limits to old media, it’s clear to everyone that the profane versions of the songs are going to be heard. The enforced innocence of broadcasting is no longer a cultural firewall; it’s barely an inconvenience. “The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it,” the Internet-freedom activist John…
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On the wall are Penn’s ten game design rules, and it’s these that form the structure of the brainstorming process. There’s no sense that the team is just picking genres and trying to come up with new spins on old ideas. Instead, there’s a sort of organic, industrial design approach – they start by considering…
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Forbes’ back-of-the-envelope accounting went like this. First, it tallied up revenue from all of those millions of YouTube views. YouTube, owned by Google, grants artists 68 percent of the proceeds earned from advertising on the site through its Partner Program. Forbes figured YouTube makes about $1 per 1,000 page views. Thus, “Friday’s” 30 million page…
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Enter the Atomos Ninja and Samurai HD recorder / monitor / playback devices that take your 10-bit video and compress it in Apple’s 1080p ProRes QuickTime format to make your post-production life a little easier. The Ninja pulls video through HDMI and deposits it on your choice of 2.5-inch HDD or SDD storage, does playback…
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gamefreaksnz: “Painting with Pixels” time lapse (by iam8bit Productions) To commemorate the 25th Game Developer’s Conference (gdconf.com), iam8bit was invited to conceive of something swanky that would engage festival-goers. An art installation plus social experiment, PAINTING WITH PIXELS is a tribute to the perseverance of the pixel through several decades of gaming culture. Despite polygons…