Spy game by a former developer of Spore - a bit inspired by the Turing test

"Well frankly in most rpgs (there are exceptions of course) quests exist in a vacuum. They will sit there forever, nothing can change them and they change nothing either. Your choices don't really matter. There are no consequences to your actions. You can't really fail."

When the schedule is shot and a game needs to ship, programmers may employ some dirty coding tricks to get the game out the door. In an article originally published in Gamasutra sister publication Game Developer magazine earlier this year, here are nine real-life examples of just that.

"Funny, you called it parallels between two movies, when in truth, you just pointed out every single required plot line for every sci-fi/fantasy story out there."

translates an English sentence to Japanese and back to English until it reaches equilibrium

"That's not at all creepy."

OMG AWESOME ! "I got to play some more with the video aspects of the Echo Nest remix API. The video remix is pretty slick. You use all of the tools that you use in the audio remix, except that the object you are manipulating has a video component as well. This makes it easy to take an audio remix and turn it into a video remix."

You have to register, though

Oh shi...

8bit-era games as paintings

photos of Pripyat

Simple sinewave synthesizer triggered by an ordinary 16step sequencer. Each triggered step causes a force on the underlaying wave-map, which makes it more cute.

rah, je voulais faire la même chose :p

"In today's world of huge, sharp LCD monitors, it's hard to remember what a videogame image looked like on an ordinary television of the late 1970s. Emulators like Stella make it possible to play Atari games on modern computers, serving the function of archival tool, development platform, and player for these original games. But unfortunately, they also give an inaccurate impression of what Atari games looked like on a television."

"Wouldn't it be awesome if there were a Twitter tool that looked just like Excel? "

ahahahhaha, well done anons!

Make a URL HUGE

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as featured on The Onion News Network ;) "new video game consists solely of shooting people point-blank in the face"

"In 2002, Touch invited a group of sound artists and composers to re-imagine the ringtone."
"The disc features 177 tracks by artists such as Ryoji Ikeda, Fennesz, New Order, Hecker, Gilbert & George, Mika Vainio, Mark Van Hoen, Phill Niblock, Simon Fisher Turner, People Like Us, Oren Ambarchi and Chris Watson."