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Tag: video games

  • Doom 3 running in Dan's web browser

    idTech 4 WebAssembly port - Doom 3 Demo

    Continuation Labs have compiled Doom 3 to perfectly-usable WASM. Mind blown.

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    • Repost
    • posted 31 March, 2020
  • Image representing post: Boneworks

    Boneworks

    Yahtzee Croshaw reviews Boneworks and considers how VR is getting along.

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    • 1 comment
    • posted 24 February, 2020
  • Annabel explores the Talking Maps digital interactives.

    Using the Web for Exhibition Interactives

    As he writes up notes for his successor, Dan explains how the Bodleian's interactive digital signage uses the power of the Web.

    Read more - about 7 minutes (1480 words)

    • Article
    • 3 comments
    • posted 20 September, 2019
  • Image representing post: Which Face is Real?

    Which Face is Real?

    Play an online game to learn to differentiate real from "deepfake"-style photos. With comments from Dan.

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    • Repost
    • posted 18 September, 2019
  • Impossible Geometry

    Impossible Geometry

    Rapping about video games is one thing. Rapping about music/beatmatching video games takes this to a whole new level.

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    • posted 18 September, 2019
  • Bus Station Unbound

    Bus Station, Unbound

    After five months of playing it, on-and-off, Dan finally gets around to reviewing Bus Station: Unbound, a piece of hypertext interactive fiction set in Preston Bus Station.

    Read more - about 3 minutes (503 words)

    • Repost
    • 6 comments
    • posted 23 July, 2019
  • Endless Quandrum Chapter #50 (wolf)

    Endless Quadrum #50

    Dan can't get enough of this Rimworldme comic.

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    • Repost
    • posted 22 July, 2019
  • Michael Holyland was elated by the empathy, kindness and creativity of the team behind his favourite video game Elite Dangerous. Photograph: Mathew James Westhorpe

    How a video game community filled my nephew's final days with joy

    Mat Westhorpe on how the Elite Dangerous videogame player community came together to bring as much joy as possible to the final weeks of the life of his 15 year-old nephew. Is somebody cutting onions in here?

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    • Repost
    • posted 8 July, 2019
  • Image representing post: Metropoloid: A Metropolis Remix

    Metropoloid: A Metropolis Remix

    Yaz Minksy and Joe Blair use classic videogames to produce a contemporary soundtrack for epic 1927 silent film Metropolis.

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    • posted 8 July, 2019
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    Killed by Google - The Google Graveyard & Cemetery

    Fusion Tables... Fabric... Inbox... Google+... goo.gl... Goggles... Site Search... Glass... Now... Code... Bump!... Gears... Desktop Search...

    Killed by Google
    Just some of the projects and services that Google has offered and then killed; this site aims to catalogue them all. Some, like Wave, were given to the community (Wave lived on for a while as …

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    • 1 comment
    • posted 21 March, 2019
  • Unrestored Pac-Man machine with worn paint in a specific place on the left-hand side.

    Pac-Man: The Untold Story of How We Really Played The Game



    ...

    Human beings leave physical impressions upon the things they love and use just as much as their do upon the lives of people and the planet they live upon. For every action, there’s a reaction. For every pressure, there’s an affect on mass and volume. And in the impressions left by that combination, particularly if …

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    • posted 4 March, 2019
  • EDIT.COM showing the source code of THIS web page.

    Sierra Death Generator



    Sierra Death Generator
    For all of your screenshot/death scene meme needs.

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    • Repost
    • posted 25 February, 2019
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    Pong

    Yesterday was World Digital Preservation Day, so Dan reimplemented Pong for the video wall at the Bodleian.

    Read more - about 4 minutes (734 words)

    • Article
    • 4 comments
    • posted 30 November, 2018
  • Pong on the Heritage Window

    Playing Pong at the @bodleianlibs for #WDPD2018 #dp0c.

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    • Note
    • 20 comments
    • posted 29 November, 2018
  • Image representing post: Note #11893

    Some days my job... isn't like other people's jobs. Lately, I've been reimplementing Pong in Javascript for the @bodleianlibs' video wall for an event on Thursday.

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    • Note
    • 9 comments
    • posted 27 November, 2018

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