Building Left 4 Dead Maps With Google Sketchup
I like it — using Google Sketchup to make game maps: If you’re a fan of Left 4 Dead and…
Games and Religion
Games are about rules — codes of conduct — governing the behavior of individual players and relationships between players. Religions…
Bacterial Prisoner’s Dilemma and Game Theory
This might be useful as a game design paradigm: Scientists studying how bacteria under stress collectively weigh and initiate different…
Unreal Development Kit Video Tutorials
Unreal developers will love these online video tutorials … and — of course — the free SDK: UDK is Unreal…
Chess as a Social Metaphor in Italy
Most games (solitaire excepted) are, by definition, social activities — none more so than chess: For some time chess was…
Post Script: mod for Half-Life 2
Post Script is an interesting new mod-in-progress for Half-Life 2 by Lewis Denby: Post Script is an episodic, interactive narrative,…
Gravity Bear unveils social fighting Facebook game
Facebook is enjoying considerable popularity as an applications development platform. For example, Battle Punks: Game startup Gravity Bear is unveiling…
Space Garbace Scow (should be a game!)
This isn’t game related. Space garbage is a serious problem, a life-and-death problem. Bob Cringely has given the matter some…
StarCraft AI Competition
StarCraft AI Competition The Expressive Intelligence Studio at UC Santa Cruz will be hosting a StarCraft competition: This competition enables…
Escape From City 17
Escape From City 17 got a nice writeup at Wired recently. The mixed-media movie was created on a shoestring budget…