Morning Discussion
by Alice O'Connor, Jan 07, 2011 5:00am PSTThe Internet, I am very excited about two video game things today.
Firstly, the Game Developers Conference 2011 schedule has revealed a Thief 4 panel about its generative music. "Developers should more enthusiastically embrace alternative music models to resolve ongoing issues with linearity and to create a musical aesthetic that pushes away from the shadow of film," says the panel description. I say obscene expressions of glee, unrepeatable in polite company.
It's a unique opportunity open to video games but very few dabble in it, probably as it's complex, difficult, untested and will go unnoticed by most. Me, I dream of ditching canned scores and having music which reacts to what I'm doing, my status, objects, the environment, my 'behaviour' and heaps of other factors. While Thief 4 is surely not doing that, it's a step in that general direction. I'll consider any old noise 'music,' though.
Secondly, Kane & Lynch 2's Shanghai is one of the most delightful video game cities I've seen in a long time. It's so busy with life and colour and movement and noise that I find it an absolute joy after so many tedious, grey and sterile urban environments.
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The episode that airs on Jan 21 (the first in the Friday slot of DOOOOOM) is the one that stars Christopher Lloyd as Walter's favorite musician (from a group called Velvet Sedan Chair)
To promote the episode, the produces have actually printed vinyl copies of songs from the fictional music group and shipped to several indie record stores across the county (they've been sitting there for months, apparently)
But even worse, they've embedded unique hints and spoilers for Fringe in the albums themselves, unique to each record they pressed.
http://www.tvline.com/2011/01/fringe-spoilers-violet-sedan-chair/
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*hyperventilates*
PLEASE keep the steampunk setting and give me my rope arrows and moss arrows and gas arrows and water arrows and my blackjack and shadowy castles and snarky guards and piles of unconscious bodies.
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http://gizmodo.com/5726594/charm-the-iphone-snake-to-sit-round-your-neck
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www.nfl.com
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With my neck/upper back issue slowly fading behind me, I'm looking forward to playing Settlers 7, ARMA2:OA, and maybe some BFBC2:Vietnam this weekend. HUZZAH!!
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16874129005&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-na-_-na-_-na&AID=10446076&PID=3640425&SID=skim384X616
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Some of these are pretty amazing and almost don't look real at times. Specifically this one at first glance: http://usarmy.vo.llnwd.net/e1/yearinphotos/2010/images/photos/october/full/army_2010_1021-1.jpg
A good way to waste an hour or so.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShTYsQ_orZQ&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRJEFiQZCs0&feature=player_embedded#!
http://www.theshowbots.com/Showbots%20Tech%20Page.html
Man if this shit is real I am very impressed, I can not believe it but then again I am not all up on the robot tech. If its real the voice recognition is top notch as well as the knowledge base.
? WTF ? crazy if its real.
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Show your fellow shackers they are retarded for missing my drawings, and marvel at my awesome artistic abilities all at once by guessing these drawings:
Put a spoiler tag over your guess!!!
1) http://www.shackpics.com/viewer.x?file=wedoodle3_74gyl7wo3oc29lxsk5qs.jpg
I'll post 2 more just as soon as the games are done...
Oh yeah, and post your most awesome we doodle drawings!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GwKGbNKQHE&hd=1
I did some searches and looked through all the pages of the chatty, can't find it. Oh well. The view of Seattle at ~1:39 is where I took some recent sunrise photos, heh.
Back when I was playing Guild Wars a lot I got to be friends with someone that worked there. Got into the beta for the expansion, and went to the release party for it. I applied for a testing job, but didn't have the right technical qualifications. I know 'testing' isn't as fun as it sounds, though, it's not like public beta testing.
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There is no native text messaging or email client on the Blackberry Playbook. You have to tether your existing Blackberry to it to read emails.
Worst decision ever maybe?
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I have both the iPhone 4 and the iPad without cases, but that glass back of the iPhone really makes me never place it on a hard surface. The iPad however gets less delicate treatment.
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http://frictionalgames.blogspot.com/2010/10/one-month-after-amnesias-release.html
4 months after release, the game has sold over 200,000 copies. Powerful word of mouth and big sales helped push the sales of this game beyond their greatest expectations. Developers say they are staying PC-centric and any console releases will be outsourced ports.
http://frictionalgames.blogspot.com/2011/01/four-months-after-amnesias-release.html
Good job PC gamers for supporting this great indie studio!
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http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1564055/Throwback.JPG
10ea 12 packs @ 2.50 per. = caffeine and sugar for the rest of the month.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzgGFWKzbTc&feature=feedf
nws language
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I find this version much funnier. hahaha butt release
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/01/hypermac-sidesteps-apple-patent-headache-with-diy-solutions.ars
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I need that picture of a slightly chubby chick with her mouth being blown open by the wind and they put a smiley on the picture that's something like:
^O^
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http://jalopnik.com/5727675/the-cars-of-test-drive-unlimited-2
I'll always remember playing the first Test Drive on the Amiga, where you were actually test driving cars, and the gas station guy would shit talk you inbetween stages "what's the matter, couldn't find third?" "my grandma shifts better than that"
And the crashes were just cracks in your windshield
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http://www.vg247.com/2011/01/07/ssx-deadly-descents-detailed-in-new-egm/
- Rewind feature ala Forza 3 (thank you!)
- 17 Regions, shooting for 70 mountains, terrain generated semi-real time from Google Earth data
- Including dangers like thin air, temperature, and ice; gear earned from winning used to protect player from this
- There are both open sections and tracks
- At least one returning character (Elise)
So it's sounding more like SSX3 (though with no super-track) than SSX Tricky.
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