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 →
finally …
… it seems that I have succeeded in cramping the necessary feedback-loops into my inner cybernetic system responsible for controlling my motor functions. Now I can perform a circle jump and come out of it with 500+ units per … Continue reading →
lepus
BizoO in S3DF4 Another one, ↑“Lepus” (2005) [18:39min | .ogm | 440MB] by fei of ↑Shaolin Productions—he says: Movie was done in a few days, it’s not a 1 year project like Get Quaked 3 but this was a … Continue reading →
more infinite trajectory
deathmatch is to tricking as kumite is to kata Just recently ↑Cory Doctorow voiced his fondness of “Tricking iT2” [see below] by ↑Team iT: “Even if you’re not a Quake player (I’m not, particularly, though I live with a … Continue reading →
bombenkrater fusion
bikers, trickjumpers, and an aspective vision of cyberculture At the city of Munich’s southern fringe, bordering to the rich people’s pseudo-gated-community Grünwald, there is a quite remarkable location to be found right at the river Isar’s shore. In between … Continue reading →
event horizon 2
There are always the prophets of doom [pun not intended]—cyberpunk has been declared dead and to be a forgotten relic of the 1980s, ↵Q3A has been labelled accordingly, and trickjumping … now someone even has called a vote at … Continue reading →
the making of machinima
↑LOWOOD, HENRY E. 2006. “High-performance play: The making of machinima.” To appear in: Videogames and Art: Intersections and Interactions, Andy Clarke and Grethe Mitchell (eds.), Intellect Books (UK), 2006. Also to appear in: Journal of Media Practice: Videogames and Art … Continue reading →
machinima: finding its way
Coincidence again—just last Monday, while composing ↵demo and ↵snaking and strafe-jumping, I found ↑“Diary of a Camper”, not this blog’s subtitle, but allegedly the very first instance of ↵machinima. Today I found ↑Machinima: Finding Its Way, representing “not only … Continue reading →
snaking and strafe-jumping
Screencap from ↵Team iT‘s movie “DeFrag”. The gaps between the floor elements to be seen in the background could not be crossed without the technique of strafe-jumping. Run done by cyrus. The currently featured game innovation at ↑GIDb is … Continue reading →