rolling thread of stuff worth reading on videogames

hahaha

heh, sounds like good times

http://thoughtcatalog.com/2010/video-games-atari-macintosh-pc-computer/

leigh alexander is writing about every video game console she has ever owned

and for some reason doing so in the style of tao lin?

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these scare quotes are killing me, but she hasn't made a diversion yet about what her dude-bro is texting her, so it reads pretty purged of Tao Lin

oh man fuck this

'feels like' either the HROisms get pretty 'unbearable' by page 3, or I'm grumpy at being reminded that for Americans the 80s were a giant gulf between Atari and the NES filled only by playing Solitaire on $1200 monochrome Macs, which they somehow find more pleasingly retro than our European plasticky 8-bit micros for $300 with a joystick, a bucket of garishly coloured games, and the secret knowledge of '10 PRINT "HI" 20 GOTO 10'

(returns to trying, failing to derive some extra hilarity from knowing someone male with the same name as the author)

unreadable

I like this

first intro to ‘indie games’, via a CD entitled ’99 Shareware/Freeware titles’ all of which involved clicking + various degrees of ‘broken-ness’. A game entitled ‘Pencils’ taught me the concept of the Egyptian sphinx in merely one example wherein things that

but not to the end of the sentence, so I cut it off.

minus the quotes

I guess I like the idea of shareware games being broken, because they are unless you pay for them. She doesn't even mean that, does she?

Anna Anthropy needs to write a book.

Oh man, I thought the "Part 1 of 4" at the top referred to the pages 1-5 linked at the bottom (never was good at maths), but there is a sequel, and another, and presumably another is due

so is carles tao lin?

http://nplusonemag.com/cave-painting

Not saying I love this but it's worth reading.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/19/magazine/19video-t.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp

long nyt magazine article on the use of games and game design in education. thought it was p interesting/worth thinking about:

Game design is the platform that we can hook them into because this is where they live. Video games are more important to them than film, than broadcast television, than journalism. This is their medium. Games are this generation’s rock and roll.

^ I haven't read this but I've thought about it and this needs to be done, especially with gamemaker and klik n play so cheap and easy to use.

good god what the hell is wrong with this leigh alexander person, its all babelfishy and idiotic wtf

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good god what the hell is wrong with this leigh alexander person, its all babelfishy and idiotic wtf

this is the new articulation fwiw no ppl that right short stories in this 'voice' alla time. p sure ilx poster 'thomp' knows more about the avant origins of this style but its ~everywhere~ now

also how many times can one person use "bro" in an essay before someone hunts them down

http://us.wii.com/iwata_asks/nsmb/vol1_page1.jsp

omg that's amazing. one of the best 'process' interviews i've ever read.

Slate video game club kinda awful this year. New Yorker has a big-ass (14 page) Miyamoto profile this week.

http://thoughtcatalog.com/2010/video-games-atari-macintosh-pc-computer/

leigh alexander is writing about every video game console she has ever owned

and for some reason doing so in the style of tao lin?

― thomp, Tuesday, August 31, 2010 12:43 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark

"stuff worth reading"

Miyamoto profile:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/12/20/101220fa_fact_paumgarten

new jane mcgonigal book comes out tomorrow

http://www.amazon.com/Reality-Broken-Games-Better-Change/dp/1594202850/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1

http://cruiseelroy.net/2008/05/irregular-meter/

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/32828/Behind_The_Scenes_Microsofts_Attempt_To_Woo_Conan_OBrien_For_Xbox_Live.php

Microsoft has been busy speaking with several media companies about acquiring content for a pay-television subscription service that would stream through the Xbox 360 dashboard. It's possible the service could launch this holiday season, but that's dependent upon the company locking in a sufficient number of partners and development running on schedule.

Last November, Reuters reported the company was discussing a number of options, including creating a "virtual cable operator" to be delivered online or using the 360 to authenticate cable subscribers to watch shows - similar to its current deal with AT&T's Uverse. Another option could be creating additional individual content channels for providers, as the company has done with ESPN.

"You meet with these guys and they show you all this stuff that they're developing and it's mind blowing," said Ross. "I think it's coming and it's big. It's just that we weren't in a position at that point to figure out what it was."

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-02-21-the-boy-who-stole-half-life-2-article

interview with the guy who made the waiting for godot game
http://therumpus.net/2011/03/the-rumpus-interview-with-mike-rosenthal/

Rumpus link. Instant ignore.

idgi

http://www.nomorelost.org/2011/03/25/straight-male-gamer-told-to-get-over-it-by-bioware/

remember Tom Bissell and his shitty ramblings about doing lines and playing GTA4? well:

http://www.gamestop.com/xbox-360/games/gears-of-war-3-epic-edition/90535

Art and Design of Gears of War by Tom Bissell

I remember that book. Dude's drug-induces paeans made me wanna punch him

whats funny or 'funny' is that he wrote a very long profile of cliffy b & the last modern warfare game for the newyorker

argh GEARS of war

According to zadie smith, in the 90s Tom bissell was responsible for rehabilitating or even establishing the outstanding literary reputations of Paula fox and Richard Yates. You still suck, Tom bissell.

Anna anthropy's book is gonna come out soon and it's probably gonna be great.

http://waxy.org/2011/06/kind_of_screwed/

On pixel art fair use. BS lawsuit, IMO

the one thing that sort of tips me in favor of the photo guy was that they
had gone to the trouble of clearing the music, which was certainly transformed
much more than the photo was.

No nah, all did they were cover versions, which you don't even need a real license for (i.e. you don't need permission from the song owners). Sure you technically need get a mechanical license, but as long as you send checks at the compulsory rate you're pretty much in the clear.

what i mean is the fact that they even bothered to get a mechanical license (though it seems from his post like they may have even secured further permission of some sort), but not for the cover photo, makes me more sympathetic to the photo guy. that, plus their charging of money for it, but I'm not sure what to think about that part. I doubt The Advantage is paying royalties to DuckTales composer/programmer #3, or whomever, and I'm cool with that.

Love reading Sulla's games:http://garath.net/Sullla/civ4MP.html

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/the-edge-of-reason?page=1

the tale of an acclaimed iPhone game and how it's been hogtied by the actions of an unconscionable douchelord

Only just got round to reading this one. Holy shit.

I'm sure this guy Langdell has always been a total chancer. The Edge's catalogue was full of games that were either mediocre or just plain awful(the screenshots in that article speak for themselves), and clearly most were rushed out to make a quick buck with little regard to quality control. The worst was probably Warlock, a game so lousy it had to be given away free in early Atari ST bundles.

Also I was wondering if Langdell had ever tried to sue Edge Magazine, but it turns out he was recently sued by them, for using their logo without permission. Haha.

xp I only knew his tutorials before now but wow -- reading these games are really amazing. In the middle of reading RBPB2.

love this article.
http://insertcredit.com/2011/07/11/the-world-warrior/

+1

+2

stuff worth hearing about videogames?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uKl3xeBVY4

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