Archive for the “Games” 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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Teachers, Wii and Spore

by kartooner on May 18, 2006

Here are a few ran­dom thoughts that I’ve had through­out this week, that on their own could poten­tially be expanded, but for the time being will remain in crys­tal­lized form: Ele­men­tary Schools and Teach­ers Ever since I accepted a posi­tion work­ing as a cleaner (janitor, (…)

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Game Pixel Art

by kartooner on December 17, 2005

I’m often fas­ci­nated how some­one can cre­ate illus­tra­tions out of tiny pix­els. To me it’s no dif­fer­ent than a more technologically-advanced form of Lite Brite art and it’s some­thing, albeit jagged in appear­ance, that I’ve come to admire through­out the years. Pixel (…)

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