Monthly Archives: April 2008
Interactivity
The Internet makes it terribly easy to target niche markets. This fosters all kinds of new innovations. Some stay to become big, some remain niche, and some just disappear. This is also the case with games. Usually developed by independent hobbyist that some day want to make it big. Or just to test out a [...]
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Experience it as if you were there – Virtual Reality revisited
So whatever happened to Virtual Reality? As with many buzzwords, it was popular for a short time and it was quickly used by any entrepreneur to try to sell his goods. Hence, the definition is very fuzzy. In the strictest sense, we will probably never experience a true and complete immersive virtual environment in our [...]
Screencast: getting started with DosBox
I had a few things lying around I wanted to play with, so here is a screencast version of my previous post on DosBox. I don’t have much to add, if you need more info it can be found over there. If you want a better quality version, please go watch the one on ShowMedo.
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New word of the day: indietronica, aka, free music for you
Via the Creative Commons newsletter, I found this bit a free goodness. Tone’s “Small Arm Sea” album. It’s a bit short, but very sweet. Forget all about the legal mumbo jumbo on dual licensing. It just means that you can download it legally for free and if you feel like it, you can still buy [...]
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How to get your nostalgic game fix, and also, so long Home of the Underdogs, rest in peace
One of the things I like to do is randomly select an URL from my bookmarks, I haven’t visited in a while and just go with the flow. That’s how I ended up at Home of the Underdogs. At one point in time, this was the place you went to for abandonware (software that is [...]
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Tutorial – getting started with Sandy 3D and FlashDevelop
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3D for the web, it has been coming to you ever since virtual reality was the mot-du-jour and VRML the format to support, but it’s still not there yet. The latest craze now are [...]
Games and movies – Riddick versus Wing Commander
Just as Wing Commander wanted to be a movie (previous post), so the Riddick franchise wanted to be a game. Both struggle with their identity, none obtain that true balance and are both a good game and a good movie.
At its height, the Wing Commander series were hugely popular and loved by many, but the [...]
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The cartoon revolution – watch South Park for free
In a throwback to the Creative Commons and free stuff in general (see previous post), the makers of South Park recently announced all episodes will be freely available on their website.
No longer do you have to resort to the dark side of the Internet to get your daily fix of cartoons. I’d like to see [...]
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Tutorial: jMonkeyEngine applet – hardware 3D in the browser