theatlantic: florid: Oh my god oh my god oh my god is this by that same person who did the interpretive dance video to World Spins Madly On?! This is today’s Google doodle, and it is AMAZING.

Depth through new systems: When the game wasn’t engaging, we added new systems such as having downed planes drop powerups. A more traditional approach might be to manually create more detailed scenarios with surprise plot points where a pack of planes pop out of a hidden cloud when you collide with a pre-determined trigger. However,…

paperbits: Tinkercad – Solid modeling for artists and makers That’s a solid modeling application that runs in your browser.

(via How Big is the World of Cloud Computing? [Infographic] « Wikibon Blog)

If you still practice or encourage the outdated practice of writing long design documents, you are doing your team and your business a grave disfavor. Long design docs embody and promote an insidious world view: They make the false claim that the most effective way to make a game is to create a fixed engineering…

poptech: The New York Times’ R&D Lab has built a tool that explores the life stories take in the social space Project Cascade — it’s a working title — lets you visualize a cascade as a comprehensive unit; it also allows viewers to zoom in on particular events to see key points in how a…

Cybernetics and Constructionism concept map

globochem: chrisreblogs: thedailywhat: Misattributed Quote of the Day: “I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy.” You’ve undoubtedly seen this quote somewhere online today, most likely attributed to Martin Luther King, Jr. It’s both pensive and timely; certainly looks like…