Morning Discussion
by Alice O'Connor, Jan 05, 2011 5:00am PSTI'm still catching up on my RSS feeds from November and December. I haven't the foggiest what I was doing then but it apparently resulted on me getting very behind on reading things I very much enjoy. Hey! Let's go on a magical mystery tour together!
Amnesia: The Dark Descent developer Frictional Games wrote a splendid lengthy piece on 'How the player becomes the protagonist' in its spook-o-rama.
'Costumes: the Wearable Dialog' is a bit of an illustrated crash course in costume design. While its focus is on comics, the principles absolutely apply to video games too.
Inspired by the book Destroy All Movies: The Complete Guide To Punks On Film, Everything Is Terrible! produced a seventeen-minute, four-part compilation of 'punks' in movies--parts one, two, three and four. Movie punks are such strange and wonderful creatures, absurd caricatures of caricatures, that I find them delightful. As you well know, movie punks are not workplace-friendly so do not invite them to yours.
Do your part for society and make dolls--action figures, if you will--poseable so they can ride dinosaurs and do other things unbecoming of girls, lasses, women or ladies.
That's enough links for today. Do you like links? Of course you do. Did you already see these on Digg or Reddit or Clickit or Punchit or Rockit or Sockit? Good for you, sunshine.
Shelter gameplay trailer is delightful, horrifying
Alan Wake Humble Bundle launches
Battlefield 4 producer says single-player should feel 'autonomous'
Indie dev to Microsoft: Be more like Sony on self-publishing
Call of Duty: Ghosts video compares graphics to Modern Warfare 3



Is anyone interested in helping host a community playdate on XBOX Live if we get approved? Before I send an email to DMZilla I need to find out if:
1) We have at least 5 people willing to be "hosts"
2) A common XBOX Live game we all have and are willing to play
Basically this would be an event that is promoted on XBOX.com and the dashboard and would be hosted by the shacknews community. The only other requirement is we then have to provide them with a logo image, but hopefully ECO or someone else could hook us up with that.
This is one that is going on this week to give you an idea of what will be promoted on the website: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/Community/events/CommunityPlaydate/Home
Here is the message I saw on twitter: http://yfrog.com/gyso5vpj
And geedeck said he was interested on my twitter message so we need a few more volunteers.
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