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    links for 2008-07-30

    Slashdot | Have Modern Gamers Lost the Patience For Puzzles?
    Yes and no. See: Portal, Professor Layton’s Curious Village, Samarost etc. Instead: many more people (modern gamers) are “gamers” now, and (shock horror) some of them like different things.
    (tags: gamedesign gaming puzzles slashdot)

    Word Withdrawal | MetaFilter
    It pisses me off that there can still be an 89 […]


    The Case of the Broken Time Machine Backups

    We’re running Mac OS X Server 10.5 at work and I’d be lying if I said it had been a complete doddle to set up. Things that have been annoying so far:

    the simple configuration option is really, really simple;
    the advanced configuration option is really, really advanced;
    there is no middle ground between “simple” and “advanced”;
    periodically the […]


    links for 2008-07-28

    Fringe: Fringe Will Be Dark, and Clues About It Are Already Out There
    (tags: io9 fringe abrams tv tvshow cloverfield marketing experience)

    Protecting the consumer at heart of future for media services in the UK
    Plans to regulate video-on-demand services and product placement on British television are set out in a consultation document published by Culture Secretary Andy […]


    links for 2008-07-25

    We Design Stories: The Digital Fiction of Six to Start: Voice: AIGA Journal of Design: Writing: AIGA
    (tags: wetellstories aiga sixtostart penguin danhon adrianhon)

    Broadcast Audience Evolution - Homepage
    Might be interesting…
    (tags: metrics audience measurement broadcast event conference)

    Liberty News
    Oh - my wonderful team at Six to Start made this.
    (tags: libertynews spooks spookscode9 sixtostart bbc bbcthree kudos)


    links for 2008-07-24

    Knol: a unit of knowledge
    Knol’s out for summer
    (tags: google knol wikipedia knowledge)


    links for 2008-07-22

    adaptive path » blog » Peter Merholz » Conversation with Michael B. Johnson of Pixar - Part 1
    (tags: michaeljohnson pixar interview adaptivepath peterme)


    links for 2008-07-21

    Apple - Pro - Profiles - Dark Horse Comics, pg. 1
    Dark Horse’s color management workflow
    (tags: darkhorse apple pro comics colourmanagement colormanagement colorsync)


    links for 2008-07-17

    Giles Turnbull says hello - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
    Oh look! It’s gilest!
    (tags: gilest tuaw apple blogging)

    YouTube - Feist on Sesame Street
    Sometimes I just want to live on Sesame Street.
    (tags: sesamestreet feist 1234)


    links for 2008-07-16

    Twitter Search
    Duh, Twitter buys Summize
    (tags: summize twitter search acquisition startup)

    tap tap tap ~ tasty bits for your iPhone
    (tags: iphone apps iphoneos iphoneos2)

    Gamasutra - Top 10 Pitfalls Using Scrum Methodology for Video Game Development
    Wow. Lots of fantastic stuff in here, as well as what we suspected: creativity/pre-production isn’t sprint zero.
    (tags: scrum agile gamedevelopment gamedev gaming development […]


    Me and Adrian at Yahoo! Brickhouse tonight

    Cross-posted from the Six to Start blog:
    Sorry for the rather short notice on this one - Adrian and I will be speaking tonight (6pm to 8pm) at Yahoo! Brickhouse: We Told Stories: Dan and Adrian Hon (Six to Start) on ARGs & storytelling online .
    Learn about how leading alternate reality game studio Six to Start […]


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