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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…
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How do we make sure that the things we learn and make and explore in this room last? Alexander, summing up how discourse around games has been innovative as well as cyclical (via nyugamecenter)
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Design a solution to the memory problem that our field has. Design a solution that will create permanence for the work you have done this weekend. Leigh Alexander (via nyugamecenter)
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WOOT! (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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Startup uses ultrasound chirps to covertly link and track all your devices
mostlysignssomeportents: Silverpush, a startup that’s just received $1.25M in venture capital, uses ultrasonic chirps that are emitted by apps, websites, and TV commercials to combine the identities associated with different devices (tablets, phones, computers, etc), so that your activity on all of them can be aggregated and sold to marketers. Silverpush is one of several…
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ruinedchildhood: ONLY JUST NOW DUDE AS A KID I REALLY WATED ME SOME USEFUL GODDAMN SKINTONES WHERE WERE YOU 15 YEARS AGO. DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY ORANGE PEOPLE I HAD. color comes out in the wash. bug or feature?
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todaysdocument: Beck and Pauli Lithography v. Adolph Coors – a Case of an Unpaid Tab 142 years ago on November 14, 1873, Adolph Coors, along with Denver businessman Jacob Shueler, recorded a deed of purchase for an abandoned tannery in Golden, Colorado. Within months the building would become home to the Golden Brewery, thus beginning…
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Now Available for Download: Processing – Raspberry Pi Processing, a programming language for teaching coding in the context of visual arts, is now available for Raspberry Pi. It’s free and open source. Source: Now Available for Download: Processing – Raspberry Pi This enables a project I had in mind.
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Now Available for Download: Processing – Raspberry Pi
Processing, a programming language for teaching coding in the context of visual arts, is now available for Raspberry Pi. It’s free and open source. Source: Now Available for Download: Processing – Raspberry Pi This enables a project I had in mind.
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progress report
this morning I test drove Defold, a 2D game engine currently in early beta testing. I didn’t make it through the 5-minute tutorial before it crashed and hung. the IDE (Editor) adopts some of the project management interface elements from Eclipse and from Unity. Defold seems to be integrating a version control system with remote…