Daniel Cook, the Chief Creative Officer at Spry Fox Games, examines the process of iterating video games to improve them through tightening the system of cause and effect. New designers often treat the systems at the heart of their games as inviolate features of nature. The properties of a sniper rifle, the combo system in [...]
For its latest ad campaign, ‘Game On, World’, Nike has placed its roster of athletes into a game of fake-Super Mario Bros. as a way to promote the Nike+ fitness tracking system. It’s a short clip and a commercial, which I hate promoting, but it’s a great spot. Obviously, Nike knew I wouldn’t hesitate to post [...]
An enterprising Redditor snapped this incredible Portal picture. How’d he do it? Okay, so when the shutter opens, the camera begins taking in light. On many cameras, the shutter can stay open indefinitely. This lets the sensor (on a digital camera like I used) or the film (on an old camera) keep taking in more [...]
Is there anyone who doesn’t love Portal? Jason Craft made a fan video showing what life would be look if the “Portal Gun” was real. It’s a bit more comical than the last Portal fan made movie we posted, but that’s the point. If Portal Guns actually existed people would just use them to mess [...]
Indie Game: The Movie, a documentary about independent video game creators, won the best documentary editing award at the Sundance Film Festival and is now available to download or view online for $10. I’ve yet to see the movie, but I’ve heard nothing but good things about it. The project was funded through Kickstarter, so there’s a [...]
Here’s an updated, 3D interpretation of the opening level of everyone’s favorite video game. It’s weird seeing watching the opening level with HD sound effects and absent that infamous soundtrack. [via theaggregate]
Neal Stephenson is best known as a speculative fiction author, whose works span science fiction, cyberpunk, and alternative history, among other subgenres. However, his new Kickstarter campaign, for a swordsmanship game called Clang, will add video game maker to his resume. In the last couple of years, affordable new gear has come on the market [...]
You might remember Mark Rober as the NASA rocket scientist (seriously, that’s what he does for a living) behind the double iPad Halloween costume. He’s also made a few other nifty videos (like this amazing gorilla footage one) using simple technology hacks to wondrous effect. His latest has him crafting a glowing Super Mario sculpture [...]
Someone on Reddit actually made the video game, Journey To the Center Of Hawkthorne, from the Community episode finale “Digital Estate Planning.” You can download the game and test it out yourself via this Reddit thread; the game is free, available for all operating systems, and being continuously updated with improvements. I’m not surprised this happened, but how quickly it happened [...]
Here’s an abridged history of console video games in under three minutes made using only the sounds, music and video from the games themselves. PC games have been conspicuously left out, but that’s just because if they were included this video would clock in well-over three minutes. [via Polygon]
