ONE SHOT: ASHLEY WOOD’S METAL GEAR SOLID DIGITAL COMIC ART
Snake ambushed by Liquid Snake, one of three pieces of original comic art in helloMuller’s collection by Ashley Wood (currently collaborating with Age of Empires devs Newtoy on an original iPhone game) for Konami’s intricate PSP Metal Gear digital comic. [via minusbaby]
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THE BOOK LOVERS: “WELL PLAYED 1.0”, 22 ESSAYS ON BIOSHOCK, ICO, MARIO, PORTAL, ZELDA
Just published by Carnegie Mellon University professor Drew Davidson, and perfect for a long-weekend read (while we all wait for the Infinite Summer to arrive): Well Played 1.0, a collection of 22 essays from developers, scholars, reviewers and bloggers that investigate both the experience of playing particular games, as well as how well the game itself is designed and developed.
The games included in the 1.0 version:
Advance Wars,
Bioshock,
Bully,
Civilization 4,
Europa Universalis,
Guitar Hero,
Half-Life 2,
Ico,
Kingdom of Loathing,
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time,
Metal Gear Solid 4,
Mines of Minos,
Parappa the Rappa,
Passage,
Phoenix Wright,
Portal,
Secret of Monkey Island,
Shadow of the Colossus,
Silent Hill 2,
Super Mario Bros.,
Tempest,
Ultima Underworld,
World of Goo, and
Zork
From the following contributors:
Kirk Battle (L.B. Jeffries),
Mia Consalvo,
Greg Costikyan,
Patrick Curry,
Drew Davidson,
Corvus Elrod,
Noah Falstein,
Clara Fernandez-Vara,
Mary Flanagan,
Nick Fortugno,
James Paul Gee,
Charles Herold,
Clint Hocking,
Katherine Isbister,
Nick Montfort,
Doris Rusch,
Jesse Schell,
Brett Shelton,
Mark Sivak,
Seth Sivak,
Kurt Squire,
Jason Vandenberghe
The book is available for free as an HTML text dump via the book’s official site or as a free PDF download from Lulu; a print version can be ordered via Lulu as well.
Well Played 1.0: Video Game, Value and Meaning [ETC-Press, thanks Drew!]
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JUST MY TYPE: TEXTADVENTURE BLOG CELEBRATES THE ART OF GAME TYPOGRAPHY
The latest design/game crossover blog well worth following (after BoxArt and PixelStyle): Offworld guest blogger Tiff Chow and Will ‘brilliam‘ Mitchell are curating TextAdventure, a tumblr blog dedicated solely to fantastic examples of in-game and on-package typography.
TextAdventure [tumblr]
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FIRST IPHONE VIDEO OF H.GRENADE’S A/V SYNCED SHOOTER CIRCUIT STRIKE.ONE
It’s true, the first official trailer for H.grenade’s upcoming iPhone node-hacking shooter Circuit Strike.One has toned down the graphical information overload of the debut trailer by just a touch (most easily noticed in the contrails now being significantly more spindley).
But, publisher Chillingo says the developer did manage to sneak in all of the audio/visual synced up effects promised but not implemented at the time, where “music, environments, vocal samples, and sound FX are mixed in real-time and triggered in sync with the music while playing,” with “a dynamic, sliding time scale where audio speed and pitch are warped in real-time when using the bullet.time hack.”
The game is expected to make its way to the App Store in a matter of weeks.
Circuit Strike.One [H.grenade]
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ONE SHOT: THE SOULLESS, INDIFFERENT GAZE OF THE NES R.O.B. ARMY
Detail of a promotional poster for the NES’s automaton playmate R.O.B., recently sold on eBay. [via GamOver]
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WII GETTING METROID PRIME TRIPLE-SHOT WITH REMADE TRILOGY
Just announced by Nintendo for a late August release: Metroid Prime Trilogy, a three-pack set bringing together the first two GameCube Metroid chapters remade with true widescreen and Wii-mote control support, alongside Corruption, the third game in the series already available on Wii, for the cost of one game.
Keep your eyes on the Prime Trilogy site for more information.
Previously:
- One shot: Metroid by way of Miyazaki – Offworld
- Samus Yarn: Deadcraft's Metroid amigurumi – Offworld
- Video: Power Play/composer Hip Tanaka do Metroid music live – Offworld
- One shot: Dan Schoening's 'Screw Attack' Metroid montage – Offworld
- Roll your own Mr. Saturn Earthbound toy, Metroid hat – Offworld
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DO YOU MAKE CHIPTUNES? HELP US SCORE THESE RETRO-VIDEOS.
Here’s the deal: Boing Boing has come into possession of some wicked footage of an anonymous Atari Computer Camp excursion that has everything you could ever want from grainy stock video: namely, yellowed and over-saturated money shots of retro-tech, and a bevy of over-eager and still-innocent pre-teens banging out BASIC to make crossword crosses out of the words Van Halen (no joke!) and gawping at the awesome limitless power and future of computers.
Here’s the catch: neither of the videos — the first clocking in at about seven minutes, and the second coming in at seven and a half — have any sound at all.
And so: given Offworld/Boing Boing’s sizable audience of chiptune/junk-tech musicians, we thought we’d throw the score open to you. If you’re interested in submitting some of your music for the videos, which will be broadcast on BBtv at a later date, send an email to brandon@offworld.com with the subject line “Atari Computer Camp” and we’ll dig through and select our favorites from there. Bonus points awarded for (but certainly not limited to) composing on actual 8-bit Atari tech.
Hit the jump for more inspirational shots of the kids at work (and play). (more…)
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ONE SHOT: THE NEO-FUTURE LASERLIGHT PYRAMIDS OF INTROVERSION’S SUBVERSION
The latest look into the procedurally generated cities of indie dev Introversion’s still-as-yet maddeningly undetailed upcoming game Subversion.
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ONE SHOT: LITTLEBIGPLANET’S FAMOUS MONSTERS OF GAMELAND
A selection of the 90-odd stickers coming in today’s LittleBigPlanet Monsters Kit.
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VIDEO: TIM SCHAFER MEETS JACK BLACK FOR BRüTAL THOUGHTS
In the first of what promises to be a viral series leading up to Brütal Legend‘s October release, LucasArts vet and Double Fine head Tim Schafer continues to prove his acting mettle by making this appearance alongside Jack Black and Steve Agee, a performance so tour de force that it makes Black puke.
Brütal Legend [EA/Double Fine]
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