Extenuating Circumstances is a weblog by Dan Hon

links for 2008-12-01

• Romeo and Juliet : The Big Shakespeare Mashup
  Collaborative storytelling geared around shooting video
  (tags: collaboration education storytelling video tool)
• Postmortem: Tale of Tales' The Graveyard
  "Your avatar is an old lady who walks through a peaceful graveyard (soundscape à la Endless Forest). That's it. That's the core game design."
  (tags: gamasutra graveyard postmortem endlessforest taleoftales)
• the Graveyard. A Tale of Tales.
  (tags: graveyard demo igf gaming gamedesign)
• vector poem » What I Get Out of Indie
  "You know what’s really scary about mainstream development? Sometimes you have to wait 2+ years to find out if you were wrong about an idea. The tech and content requirements of a design element take so long to come online, in the worst cases you’re committed to the idea even if the end result is highly flawed." – what triple A game devs get out of working on indie games in their downtime.
  (tags: gaming gamedesign development)
• vector poem
  Purity blog/news
  (tags: purity gaming gamedesign blog igf)
• PURITY
  Gloriously lo-fi FPS
  (tags: igf purity fps gaming gamedesign)
• glitchgame.com
  Digipen game. (Clue: Portal came out of Digipen, I think).
  (tags: glitch gaming gamedesign igf digipen)
• Dyson
  Rudolf Kremers and Alex May's IGF 2009 entry which hits a stupendous number of geek buttons
  (tags: dyson igf rudolfkremers gaming gamedesign)
• Casebook :: About
  2009 IGF procedural/forensic science game that's video heavy. Looks a bit like the multimedia revolution of the 90s.
  (tags: casebook detective game gaming gamedesign igf)
• maxgadney.com: Infographic Christmas Cake – Percentage of Marzipan Fans
  Awesome :)
  (tags: marzipan piechart infographics)
• Baphomets Fluch 2.5 – Broken Sword 2.5
  Broken Sword 2.5 – IGF entry, fan-sequel
  (tags: gamedesign gaming fan brokensword pointandclick adventure igf)
• Slashdot | MS Says Windows 7 Will Run DirectX 10 On the CPU
  Come to think of it, WARP sounds a bit like Apple's OpenGL LLVM stack. Am I right?
  (tags: llvm opengl directx10 windows7 via:slashdot)