In celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Apple-NeXT merger, ↑John Romero has posted an ↑interesting article about the usage of NeXT during ye olde days at ↑id Software. Set in relation to ↵three spaces, the following is especially intriguing: In … Continue reading →
Yesterday evening four of us took the chance to test the ↑↑Wii console. A little art gallery here in Munich takes part in the “Wii Crib” promotional event, which we take to be quite clever. The gallery is situated … Continue reading →
yet another abstract Just recently I again was invited to submit an abstract for a chapter in an upcoming learned volume. Here is what I cooked up, the chapter simply will be called “Game modding”—it is straight out of my … Continue reading →
Steadily they are trickling in like particles nomadizing in cyberspace … Andrew Mactavish’s ↑Andrew’s Blah Blah Blog, Frans Mäyrä’s ↑frans goes blog, and Julian Raul Kücklich’s ↑playability and ↑particle stream were added to the “games related” section of my … Continue reading →
Detail from the original cover of ↑Chris Crawford‘s 1987 game “↑Patton vs. Rommel“ As I said, all in all the public discussion on computergames is led way more differentiated in the aftermath of the amok run at Emsdetten, than … Continue reading →
↑Halcyon Days is a compilation of “interviews with classic computer and video game programmers” done by James Hague. The first version dates back to 1997, there’s an ↑introduction by ↑John Romero, and the whole thing is overall interesting.
Continue reading →Once upon a time there were collections of pictures online, showing gamers in front of their screens, making impossible grimaces, and caught in quite astounding involuntary movement—results of their being deeply immersed in computergame action. Then have a look at … Continue reading →
Neal Stephenson’s second generation cyberpunk masterpiece “↵The Diamond Age“ (1995) is set in a time when the political system of nation states long has collapsed. Tribal organizational forms have taken the latters place. Maybe to clearly distinguish his literary … Continue reading →
Within the gaming and modding community at large there are not only fans of ↑John Romero, but also of ↑George A. Romero. [Never mix up the two Romeros, nor the ↵two Johns.] Remember the seminal 1968 black and white … Continue reading →
The motto of the ↑9th Annual Independent Games Festival—which will take place 06-09 March 2007 in San Francisco, California—reads: “Rewarding innovation in independent games.” Quite naturally there is a mod competition as well. Forget the Oscars and hold your breath: … Continue reading →