| What Retro Games Mean Today - Sun, 22 Apr 2012 19:53:47 +0000 |
| What’s a retro game today? 8 bit pixellated graphics, chiptunes, simple platformer game mechanics, and charmingly traditional scoring and levelling? If you grew up in the 70s and 80s, that makes plenty of sense. I didn’t – I was born in 1982, so the most memorable games I played usually had at least EGA or [...] |
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| The Many Meanings of The Islanders - Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:06:06 +0000 |
| After reading Christopher Priest’s The Islanders, I was immediately compelled to figure out exactly what was going on in the story (similar to what I tried with Iain Banks’ Transition). Of course, The Islanders is even more deliberately ambiguous and dreamlike than Transition, and so I’m acutely aware that trying to unknot the plot is [...] |
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| Augmented Reality: Paleofuture in Action - Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:17:05 +0000 |
| This month’s issue of Harper’s Bazaar magazine has an augmented reality feature in which you use a smartphone to ‘bring the cover to life’. It’s far from the first magazine to do it, and it’s hard to miss adverts on the tube or at bus stops that have some variation of ’scan this advert to [...] |
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