Carnegie Mellon University Professor, Jesse Schell, dives into a world of game development which will emerge from the popular “Facebook Games” era.

Jump to 21:20 if you get bored (foursquare).

Wii Fit = $1,000,000,000
More Farmville players than Twitter accounts
Club Penguin = $350,000,000 (Thanks Disney)

What if you saw the world with your ears? Devil’s Tuning Fork is a first-person exploration/puzzle game in which the player must navigate an unknown world using visual sound waves. Inspired by M.C. Escher’s classic optical illusion and the echolocation of dolphins, The Devil’s Tuning Fork allows the player to explore a new mode of perception through sound visualization.

As a mysterious epidemic causes children everywhere to fall into comas, one child wakes up in an alternate reality.  It is up to this child, the player, to determine the cause of the epidemic and save the other children trapped here.  By way of the devil’s tuning fork, a magical instrument that allows the player to perceive sound waves, the player must find all the children and successfully escape this alternate reality, thereby waking up from the coma.

And with the box art,  brings me to Kurve by Verner Panton, 1960.

Via http://www.levitated.net/daily/levPantonKurve.html Also check out the rest of Levitated Design & Code’s experimental open source flash projects. http://www.levitated.net/daily/index.html

Interesting.  Fun? So-so.

Epic failures in the game development field.

This blog covers funny/weird issues and bugs from games that happened during development.

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Customer:
For the next release you could add a realtime shadow by simple adding a lightsource.
If you want to know how to do this please call me.
Tel.: XXXXXXXXXXXX

Bye XXXXXXX

Reply:
Hi XXXXXXX,

It’s a bit more complicated than that. We want to do it for 2.0 release, but that’s not 100% certain. Currently you can do shadows using a blob-shadow, or bake your shadows into a texture…

Thanks for the offer of assistance in any case.

Customer again:
Here an example how to create realtimeshadows:

rayhitssurfce()
{
if (ray.isfirsttime)
lightensurface();
else
darkensurface();
}

I hope somebody in your team knows what I mean with this. If not then you can contact me at the telephone number below.

I hope this will help you to create realtimeshadows. (I would like to use them)

Bye

http://www.retrospace.nl/index.html

The stages of arcade cabinet hankering:

1. Authenticity: one wishes to own either a working cabinet, or an emulator residing within one.

2. Dissatisfaction: The crappy authentic cabinet you can actually afford is as big as a fridge, weighs 300 pounds and is generally a great ugly pile of chipboard. One game is not enough, and gutting it to slap in a computer just makes it nastier.

3. No way am I paying $3,000 for a nice custom one or $500 for the flimsy little junk “cabinet” that Target sold for a while.

4. Dreaming of something wonderful and different, like Martjin Koch’s Retro Space. – BoingBoing

Of course I need to mention http://www.xgaming.com/ and throw it in the mix.