These are my links for July 30th through July 31st:
These are my links for July 27th through July 28th:
These are my links for June 16th through July 7th:
Playing Columbine is a 2008 American documentary film produced and edited by Danny Ledonne, an American independent filmmaker. The film follows the controversial video game Super Columbine Massacre RPG! in which players experience the Columbine High School massacre through the eyes of the killers, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold.
via Playing Columbine – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
These are my links for June 10th through June 15th:
- skozlov's netzke at master – GitHub – Netzke is a framework facilitating creation of reusable and extendable Ext JS + Rails components (widgets), plus a set of ready-to-use components to start with. It’s primarily meant for creating desktop-like web-applications (for example, back-ends), but can also be used to create widgets to be embedded into normal Rails HTML views.
- Faye: Simple pub/sub messaging for the web – Faye is an easy-to-use publish-subscribe messaging system based on the Bayeux protocol.
- mass:werk termlib – The JavaScript library "termlib.js" provides a `Terminal' object, which facillitates a simple and object oriented approach to generate and control a terminal-like interface for web services.
- Choice of Games Blog : 5 Rules for Writing Interesting Choices in Multiple-Choice Games – The hardest thing about writing a multiple-choice game in ChoiceScript is creating interesting choices for your players. Here are five rules you can follow to make decisions you write more fun and engaging.
- Adventure Book – Adventure Book for Inform 7 is a recreation of the behavior of Jon Ingold's Adventure Book programming system.
These are my links for June 1st through June 9th:
The method of loci (plural of Latin locus for place or location), also called the memory palace, is a general designation for mnemonic techniques that rely on memorised spatial relationships to establish, order and recollect memorial content. The term is most often found in specialised works on psychology, neurobiology and memory, though it was used in the same general way at least as early as the first half of the nineteenth century in works on Rhetoric, Logic and Philosophy.[1]
via Method of loci – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
A finished game isn’t one big idea, or half a dozen. It’s hundreds of thousands. You start off choosing the speed of the bike and end up choosing the speed the text scrolls in the tutorial. The scary things are the tiny choices that can make or ruin your game just as easily as those big obvious decisions at the start. Right now we’re at that stage where we have to be perfectionists, every little problem a land mine to diffuse.
via “I could easy be a games designer.” | Edge Online.
These are my links for May 24th through June 1st:
- One-Roll Engine – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – The One-Roll Engine (or O.R.E.) is a generic role-playing game system developed by Greg Stolze for the alternate history superhero roleplaying game Godlike.
- Wushu – Wushu Wiki ( Saberpunk.net ) – Wushu is a roleplaying game by Daniel Bayn, released under a Creative Commons license. Wushu rewards vivid, creative stunts, making it an ideal system for games based on action movies, adventure comics, and many other media.
- Ludus Novus » Blog Archive » LORE and Belief Released – LORE is an attempt to address some of the common problems with tabletop RPGs. It has an interesting dice system; a quick, easy, and original character creation system; and a system that’s lightweight, because roleplaying happens beyond the rules.
- Open Game License – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – The Open Game License (or OGL) is an open content license designed for role-playing games.
- Ellis Nadler – Cards of Wu –
- The Three Christs of Ypsilanti: What happens when three men who identify as Jesus are forced to live together? – By Vaughan Bell – Slate Magazine – This may be the nearest we can get to revelation—the understanding that our most cherished beliefs could be wrong.
- Playing Hooky a.k.a. web hooks – So what are web hooks? Lets start with examples, followed by theory, and then cap it off with code.
- LincityWiki – LinCity-NG is a city simulation game. It is a polished and improved version of the classic LinCity game. In the game, you are required to build and maintain a city. You can win the game either by building a sustainable economy or by evacuating all citizens with spaceships.
These are my links for April 27th through May 20th:
- About Flaxo – Flaxo is a Flash-based interpreter for Interactive Fiction (IF) games compiled for Infocom's Z-Machine, versions 1-8 (except version 6).
- goosh – Project Hosting on Google Code – Terminal-style web shell for Google services (and others)
- JS/UIX – Terminal – JS/UIX is an UN*X-like OS for standard web-browsers, written<br />
entirely in JavaScript (no plug-ins used). It comprises a vir-<br />
tual machine, shell, virtual file-system, process-management,<br />
and brings its own terminal with screen- and keyboard-mapping.
- The Totalitarian Buddhist Who Beat Sim City « Viceland Games –
- World Geodetic System – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – The World Geodetic System is a standard for use in cartography, geodesy, and navigation. It comprises a standard coordinate frame for the Earth, a standard spheroidal reference surface (the datum or reference ellipsoid) for raw altitude data, and a gravitational equipotential surface (the geoid) that defines the nominal sea level.
- The Improbability Pump – So why is it contemptible to reject germ theory but socially acceptable to reject evolutionary theory?
