two johns
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 →
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two johns
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 →
elements of style
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 →
first season pwned
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 →
at last
Over the weekend I have more or less finished my contribution to the 2007 issue of the ↑“Open Source Annual” … but far more important is the above! Any questions?
Continue reading →digital arabs
↑ŠISLER, VÍT. 2006. “↑Representation and self-representation: Arabs and Muslims in digital games,” in Gaming realities: A challenge for digital culture edited by M. Santorineos and N. Dimitriadi, pp. 85-92. Athens: Fournos. Available online [.pdf | 480KB]: http://uisk.jinonice.cuni.cz/sisler/publications/SISLER_Representation_of_Muslims.pdf abstract: This … Continue reading →
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spacewar
GRAETZ, J. MARTIN. 1981. ↑The origin of Spacewar. ↑Creative Computing 7(8): 56-67, ↑reprinted 1983 in ↑Creative Computing Video & Arcade Games ↑1(1): 78-??. The picture at the top is a snippet of an illustration that accompanied the 1983 … Continue reading →
strafing musings
Those of you who are insane—or bored—enough to indeed follow the completely unorganised entries in this blog in the strict sense of the term, representing a fraction of what I dare call fieldwork, surely have noticed my fascination with ↵Q3A-trickjumping … Continue reading →