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about procedural content in game development

"Vision Factory is a multiplatform software (...) It is aimed at creating real-time interactive visual animations by the programming of reusable and sharable plugins."

six different avatars with distinct personalities

interact with autonomous characters driven by Drama Princess technology

unique free-form gameplay: do what you want when you want it

mix the music in realtime through in-game activity

"Like all my pals, the TV and movie people have come calling and even the computer game people (which is weird because games are for pedos and I have no interest)." WTF??

@ selectparks

"Minimeter vous permet de connaître l'état actuel du quota de votre connexion (ADSL ou cable) en l'affichant dans la barre d'état de Firefox."

A showroom of nice looking simple downloadable DHTML and AJAX scripts

free vectorisation software

"Google has published a rather interesting paper (PDF) regarding the failure rates of hard drives. The report examined 100,000 commercial hard drives, ranging from 80GB to 400GB in capacity, used at Google since 2001."

"Using procedural techniques, the game universe has been designed to be huge and realistic. There are billions of solar systems and planets, each unique and awaiting to be discovered by a player"

"If you liked Yahoo Pipes, you might be interested in Teqlo, a new “make your own mashups” tool that just entered preview mode."

"Pipes is a hosted service that lets you remix feeds and create new data mashups in a visual programming environment. "

groovy

the novel that inspired STALKER, the movie, and the game

toy 1 : missing link

in which Michael Jackson is possibly involved, or has been involved

Steeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeve Ballmer

"web-toy that invites you to draw a stick-figure and then creates a delightful, gigantic animation of your figure, multiplied into a cast of thousands, doing a joyful, Busby Berkeley show-number, with dancing and cavorting and so forth"

php version

"Basically, what I am doing is using a privacy protecting derivative of each commenter's IP address to build a 9-block image and displaying it next the commenter's name." In JAVA

Zedla "you found the" generator

tag your Deus Ex music well !

"an Unreal Tournament 2004 modification aimed at giving the classic Deus Ex technological tune-up. The goal is to utilize the capabilities of UE2 to provide the player with a higher resolution Deus Ex experience while keeping the gameplay intact."

related to South Park Episode "Best Friends Forever"

"Adds the favicons of the links in del.icio.us before them."

"We write about usability and branding, because we think and talk about usability all the time and because we plan to publish a book based on these notes. A book on interfaces cannot be written in a lonely chamber it needs an interactive testground."

"95% of the information on the web is written language. It is only logical to say that a web designer should get good training in the main discipline of shaping written information, in other words: Typography."

by IAJapan > the idea : back to interactivity. // interesting, it's not like an article about the PS4 ;)