Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
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SimCity players have discussed a variety of creative strategies for their virtual homelessness problem. They’ve suggested waiting for natural disasters like tornadoes to blow the vagrants away, bulldozing parks where they congregate, or creating such a woefully insufficient city infrastructure that the homeless would leave on their own. You can read all of these proposed…
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About: Something’s rotten in the land of the dead, and you’re being played for a sucker. Meet Manny Calavera, travel agent at the Department of Death. He sells luxury packages to souls on their four-year journey to eternal rest. But there’s trouble in paradise. Help Manny untangle himself from a conspiracy that threatens his very…
Angels Fall First is a truly first person sci-fi war game. From commanding the battle standing on the bridge of your flagship all the way down to serious infantry firefighting – with everything in between – AFF brings together all the war you ever loved. Featuring team-based gameplay, and offering a wide selection of weapons…
Commander Shepard, the player-created hero of BioWare’s Mass Effect trilogy, began life as a woman, developer Jonathan Cooper revealed on Twitter today. Cooper is currently an animator on Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End at Naughty Dog, but he previously worked at Ubisoft Montreal as the animation director for Assassin’s Creed 3, and prior to that,…
Endgame is going to be a fascinating project in collective storytelling. The project started as Endgame: The Calling, a novel published in October from best-selling (and controversial) author James Frey and Nils Johnson-Shelton. It is the first of three books. Before the second novel comes out, Google’s Niantic Labs division will launch its Endgame mobile game. Much…
FiveThirtyEight, Nate Silver’s newly launched website at ESPN, uses statistical analysis — hard numbers — to tell compelling stories about politics, science, economics, lifestyle, and sports. The Worst Board Games Ever Invented | FiveThirtyEight.
Tom Francis used to write for PC Gamer, and then he decided to make his own game. The problem was that he had very little idea of how to actually do that. He started from scratch, and the result was Gunpoint, a successful title “about rewiring things and punching people.” He’s now working on a…
Four months into its existence, Destiny is a better, more frustrating, more expansive—and ultimately, expensive—game than it was at launch. It’s also very different, because after months of tweaks, it has become clearer than ever who we’re really playing against: the people who made it. The player’s greatest adversary in Destiny isn’t an alien warlord…