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The Sims
I recently read this incredibly long critique of The Sims Social: http://www.actionbutton.net/?p=1076 The old Sim games, like Sim City, Sim Farm, Sim Ant, Sim Life, and The Sims were all a bit of a simulation, in that they made the … Continue reading
Visual Brain averaging
So, this was going around lately, where someone put people in an MRI while showing them video and then correlated the scans with the video to try to judge what they were seeing: The concept reminded me of some related … Continue reading
Key Art vs. Realistic Facial Expressions part 2
I posted earlier about the poor poster from “Crazy on the Outside” before. But I recently saw this poster for “Neighbours” with John Belushi and decided to contrast the two. See how much more expressive people were on posters before … Continue reading
El Presidente chic
I do kind of love this photo of Alfredo Stroessner. So damn ostentatious.
Fashion!
I think if left entirely to my own devices, I’d dress like Tank Girl. Other potential influences: Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, 2NE1 and these “Lego inspired” clothes. I don’t have many good male role-models for this.
Too Many Zombies
I appeared in and edited a short movie for the 90 Second Quickie. It’s called “Too Many Zombies.” I also made a slightly altered version. For effects, I ended up using the most motion-tracking of any video I’ve done before.
Mahogany Frogger
I made a game for local prog rock band Mahogany Frog. The game is called Mahogany Frogger. It’s the second thing I’ve made using FlashPunk the first being my entry for the Room Jam. You can play Mahogany Frogger here.
10 different smiles?
I was intrigued by a side-comment in this article about glasses that evaluate facial expressions: http://news.cnet.com/8301-27083_3-20077393-247/social-x-ray-specs-help-us-read-emotions/ The company is also in talks with a Japanese firm that wants to use the software to distinguish between 10 different types of smiles … Continue reading
Kissing games?
So one of the things that’s weird with Flash games is the ability for it to create these hyper-specific sub-sub-genres. Some of the broader genres I’ve come across are the “room escape” games and the “tower defense” games. Tower defense … Continue reading
Sky scapers?
I love that a site like this exists: http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?cityID=58