To the Institute Community, I am very sorry to have to tell you of the sad news of the passing early this morning [30 October 2006] of Professor Emeritus Clifford Geertz. Cliff was founding professor of the School … Continue reading →
Although all this ↑DeFRaG-screenshots showing the speeds I reached in ↑Q3A-gamespace by strafejumping document a part of the path of my personal immersion into the culture of trickjumping, I am perfectly aware that they start to get boring. But … Continue reading →
Just another ‘little’ rant on economized politics reigning academia—skip it if you can’t stand it anymore. Last night I woke up around one o’clock in the morning and couldn’t find sleep again. So, in trying to catch up with … Continue reading →
Just as he had promised during ↑QuakeExpo, celebrating the tenth anniversary of ↑Quake, ↑John Romero ↑released the map sources on 11 October 2006. Immediately not only ↑comments rained in, but the community sprang to action as well. For example … Continue reading →
A family tree of ↑Quake-based game engines. By Tei, ↑published at Wikipedia. ↑Licence. This is just to illustrate the enormous influence and impact of ↑John Carmack‘s game-engines on the whole lot of computergames as we know them today. The … Continue reading →
What I finished reading last night is by far the best book on computergames I had my hands on so far. To be precise, it is the best book on those aspects of computergames I am interested in the … Continue reading →
What I finished reading last night is by far the best book on computergames I had my hands on so far. To be precise, it is the best book on those aspects of computergames I am interested in the most: … Continue reading →
Speaking about writing, let’s listen to Stephen King: This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don’t understand very much about what they do—not why it works when … Continue reading →
Somehow I missed to report on that … ↑Episode 11—I <3 u in rl of ↑Pure Pwnage has been released on 21 June 2006. Season one of the über-cult series will be completed with the public ↑screening of Episode 12 … Continue reading →