Archive for the “Software” category

Minecraft

by admin on November 4, 2010

I’ve watched the devel­op­ment of Minecraft, an indie game by Markus Pers­son of Mojang Spec­i­fi­ca­tions, trans­form from an ambi­tious cre­ative block-building game to a Lego-inspired survival/adventure sand­box that allows you to lit­er­ally trans­form the land­scape block by block. Markus who goes by the (…)

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Habitat

by kartooner on February 12, 2009

Ear­lier this week I picked up the book Rogue Lead­ers: The Story of Lucasarts by Rob Smith. There’s an inter­est­ing his­tory that cap­ti­vated me from the get-go, pri­mar­ily because I’m a part of this fas­ci­nat­ing lin­eage. Lucasarts & Quan­tum Link Lucasarts (then called (…)

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Joost!

by kartooner on April 24, 2007

Update: Thanks to the gen­eros­ity of Joost allow­ing unlim­ited invites every­one who added a com­ment and those who leave a com­ment from this point on will receive an invite. For weeks on end I’ve been patiently wait­ing for a Joost beta invite. Why (…)

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The Legacy of Matthew Carter

by kartooner on December 12, 2006

Matthew Carter, born British but now resid­ing in the Boston area, is the cre­ative force behind many widely used fonts today includ­ing Ver­dana, Tahoma, Geor­gia, New Cen­tury School­book and Hel­vetica, to name a few. Carter began his career as a tra­di­tional type­face designer, (…)

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