"Corridors make science-fiction believable, because they're so utilitarian by nature - really they're just a conduit to get from one (often overblown) set to another. So if any thought or love is put into one, if the production designer is smart enough to realise that corridors are the foundation on which larger sets are 'sold' to viewers, movie magic is close at hand."

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

Achron is the first game to feature single-player and multiplayer free-form time travel. It is the world's first meta-time strategy game, a real-time strategy game where players and units can jump to and play at different times simultaneously and independently.

a bit like Braid or the 10 cursors game

"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."

"Each of us has at least 100 new mutations in our DNA"

on side quests, gameworlds, writing, artificial life, etc

"This is a character postmortem originally produced for internal use following the release of Frictional Games' Penumbra: Black Plague, and adapted here for anyone who cares to read it."

"Put your best twitter bot Forward"

quelle bande de nerds :p

Capteurs, actionneurs, interfaces Midi pour interaction à distance, art contemporain et installation artistique.

Chet Faliszek on Valve Culture, why AI Constructs are Depressing, and the Larger World Behind Left 4 Dead

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.

on Blade Runner, the future, and paper

"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