Archive for the ‘random’ Category

Link grab bag – Serious games and serious research about unserious games

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

Two links I found interesting: Playing Counter Strike and Call of Duty 4 can improve visual perception of contrast ABC Australia is funding the production of Serious Games And a random extra; there have been a number of hyped-up articles about small-time developers making it big with iPhone games recently. A few of ...

Write an Aussie Chumby widget, win cool stuff

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

Internode is running a Chumby competition for developers: create an Australian localised Chumby widget. The creator of the highest rated widget wins a chumby, a copy of Adobe Flash CS4 Professional and an $800 credit towards Internode services .... and lots of glory. I probably won't have time to participate, ...

Spore reviewed by scientists: EA is spouting pseudo-scientific bullshit

Friday, October 24th, 2008

I've played about 5 mins of Spore in a games store, so I'm in no position to review it. Draconian DRM issues aside, I wasn't all that impressed with my brief time in the Cell stage, although I was distracted by the gross-out slimy controllers, caked in grease from the ...

Note to self: Ludum Dare voting finishes this weekend

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

So, I've pretty much played all the games, and taken a long list of notes to guide my voting. Some amazing 48 hour entries this time around. Gotta get those votes in (3 days to go) !! To make the whole process easier, I used Keeyai's handy torrent of the games, ...

Highlight games at the Game On exhibition

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

The Game On exhibition has been on at ACMI in Melbourne (Fed Square) for about 4 months now. A few months ago, I was lucky enough to exhibit our Atari 2600 collection as part of a collectors event ... unfortunately I didn't get any photos of it in a glass ...