Tag: video games
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Pong on the Heritage Window
Testing a few days prior to public display.
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Forza Horizon 4 is really very British
There is a phenomenon of culture that I’m not convinced has a name. Living in the UK, the vast, vast majority of the media I consume is from the US. And nearly always has been. While television was more localised, all my life the films and games (and indeed an awful lot of the TV) … -
Notes from #musetech18 presentations (with a strong "collaboration" theme). Note that these are "live notes" first-and-foremost for my own use and so are probably full of typos. Sorry.
Matt Locke (StoryThings, @matlocke):
Over the last 100 years, proportional total advertising revenue has been stolen from newspapers by radio, then television: scheduled media that is experienced simultaneously. … -
An Oral History of Leisure Suit Larry
https://melmagazine.com/an-oral-history-of-leisure-suit-larry-ef41bc374802 (melmagazine.com) If you happened to flip through a PC gaming magazine in the late 1980s or early 1990s, you would’ve probably seen an ad for a game called Leisure Suit Larry, or one of its many sequels. It was a graphic adventure game first released in 1987 with the primary goal of helping its …
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Coding without a keystroke: The hands-free creation of a full video game
Coding without a keystroke: The hands-free creation of a full video game (Ars Technica) Coder wants to grow the speech-to-text coding community, uses his fun game to advocate.
Dig Dog is a pretty fun little video game. Call it "Spelunky for kids"—and don't think of that as a backhanded compliment, either. Dig Dog, which launched … -
Lunar Lander
Back in 1997 Dan made a "Lunar Lander" game in Turbo Pascal. Twenty years on, he's re-implemented it in Javascript.
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TFW a Twitter bot solves a video game mystery
TFW a Twitter bot solves a video game mystery | The Video Game History Foundation on Patreon (Patreon) Official Post from The Video Game History Foundation: Something pretty fun happened yesterday that I wanted to share with you all: a bot on Twitter accidentally provided the clue that finally solved a 28-year-old mystery about a …
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This Old Tech: Remembering WorldsAway's avatars and virtual experiences
This Old Tech: Remembering WorldsAway's avatars and virtual experiences (PCWorld) The year was 1995, and CompuServe's online service cost $4.95 per hour. Yet thousands of people logged into this virtual world daily.
WorldsAway was born 20 years ago, when Fujitsu Cultural Technologies, a subsidiary of Japanese electronics giant Fujitsu, released this online experiment in multiplayer … -
Introduction (to SMAC)
Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri[1] (which we fondly refer to here as SMAC, both as an acronym and in reference to its potent addictive properties) opens in an odd way for a science fiction game. Most such games open with spaceships, star travel, or some futuristic technology. They seek to hook the imagination. But our game begins much more …
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Steer! An Experimental Canvas/Websocket Game
Left alone to look after a conference stand, Dan implements a browser-based video game prototype called Steer! in which the player uses their mobile phone to control a speeding car.
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Review of Transmissions: Element 120
This review originally appeared on Steam. See more reviews by Dan. Transmissions: Element 120 Rating: 👍 What do you expect for free? Well whatever you expect, you should expect more. This game takes the engine and content you know and love from Half-Life 2, updates it, and dumps you into a whole new narrative with …
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Review of Raw Data
This review originally appeared on Steam. See more reviews by Dan. Raw Data Rating: 👍 The most intense and engaging VR experience I've ever had.
Whether you're dodging and diving behind cover while you fire your pistol or you're getting up-close with the androids as you swing your laser sword, you're always on the move in … -
Can you stop Jeremy Corbyn from joining ISIS? [Twine game]
Can you stop Jeremy Corbyn from joining ISIS? [Twine game]
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Review of Oh...Sir! The Insult Simulator
This review originally appeared on Steam. See more reviews by Dan. Oh...Sir! The Insult Simulator Rating: 👍 Oh... Sir! The Insult Simulator is a light-hearted, (quite literally) Monty Python-silly timed-turns insult-spitting game for one or two players. It's the perfect casual luck-heavy puzzler for anybody whose hovercraft is full of eels, whose parrot is pining …