Jun 30 2009

some more superbrothers

Category: art, game designheavyness @ 7:58 pm

 Mountain game: Craig Adams’ Kurosawa-inspired Artsy design, Alpinist | Offworld


Jun 30 2009

Game Art

Category: art, gamingheavyness @ 7:54 pm

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“These photographs are long exposures taken while playing video war games of the 80’s created by Atari, Centuri and Taito. The photographs were shot from video game screens while I played the games. By recording each second of an entire game on one frame of film, I captured complex patterns not normally seen by the eye.”

Rosemarie Fiore


Jun 20 2009

Scribblenauts wallpaper

Category: art, gamingheavyness @ 10:33 pm

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my new favorite game i haven’t played yet…

One shot: the Scribblenauts time-travelling T-rex robot-zombie smashing wallpaper | Offworld


Jun 14 2009

Games That Spark Music Memories

Category: gaming, musicheavyness @ 9:26 pm

I dont know about you, but I always play my own music when I play video games, always have (the 360 makes that so much easier now). The following games/albums are forever melted together for me…

Starfox / Beastie Boys – Paul’s Boutique
Zelda: A Link to the Past / Queen’s Greastest Hits vol 1 & 2
Wolfenstein / Rage Against the Machine
Burnout 3 / System of a Down (any)
Braid / Pink Floyd (any)
TIE Fighter / Emerson Lake & Palmer’s Greatest Hits


Jun 14 2009

go play “Little Wheel”

Category: gamingheavyness @ 10:56 am

Rock, Paper, Shotgun: Broken edit function » The Littlest Robo: Little Wheel

it’s a simple click and point game, but i love the silhouette art style and the animation.  go play it now.


Jun 09 2009

Natal

Category: gaming, news, previewheavyness @ 10:49 pm

My wife’s project got shown last week at E3… called Project Natal.  Here is a nice hands-on experience written up by the guys over at Gizmodo…

Gizmodo – Testing Project Natal: We Touched the Intangible – Project Natal.

*update: a nice read about Natal and the future of gaming over at Offworld [link]


May 14 2009

Changing the Dynamics

Category: game design, gaming, hahaheavyness @ 1:17 pm

In the following video, Japanese gameshow “Downtown no Gaki no Tsukai ya Arahende!!” takes a simple game but changes one thing… it takes place in a library and you can’t make a sound.

 

Because you can’t make a sound, it makes the whole scenario that much enjoyable to watch.  They try not to laugh out loud, when getting tortured, they try to be quiet (but always end up making the situation funnier).

People do this now with card games and alcohol; loose a hand, take a drink, makes the game more enjoyable.  I wonder how this could work for video games.  Maybe something like a FPS where all you hear is foot steps.  Or you can only see when you’re not shooting (so people aren’t so run’n’gun crazy).

I just find it interesting they changed one simple rule and it’s changes the experience.


May 13 2009

Sick Ass Games

Category: gaming, randomheavyness @ 11:29 am

They need to make games you can play when you’re sick… something where you don’t have to hit to many buttons or really concentrate. Cause I want to play a game right now, but to sick too. I guess that is why they make movies… or Peggle.


May 08 2009

Out of this Little Big Planet

Category: gamingheavyness @ 1:51 pm

makes me want to go back and play the classic…  oh look, you can!


May 02 2009

Rock!

Category: gaming, musicheavyness @ 2:08 pm

and check  Lemmy "The Kill Master" Kilmister in the game!


Apr 29 2009

Antisocial

Category: gaming, rantheavyness @ 9:17 pm

i’ve been hearing arguments that games on the Xbox 360/PS3 are antisocial but the Wii breeds nothing but social game play.  yes, a lot of games on the Xbox 360/PS3 are sinlge player games, games you wouldn’t play when you have company around.  but i can’t remember the last time i sat down and read a book with someone.  i do remember talking about a book with someone who read the same book… we were being social.  now, i do agree, Wii Sports is a very social game, much like Rock Band, Mario Kart, Castle Crashers, and about 1,000 other titles.

people are social or they’re not.  the game system they play games on doesn’t change that.

and for the record, my Wii has 2 friends on it.  my Xbox 360 has 86 friends and supports voice/video chat.


Apr 29 2009

more LOVE

Category: game dev, gamingheavyness @ 8:27 pm

gameplay video

the tools behind it…

i have a crush on this game and tools he is using.

1 more video after the break…

Continue reading “more LOVE”


Apr 29 2009

podcasts are long…

Category: gaming, rantheavyness @ 8:15 pm

podcasts are long.  like 2 hours long.  i’ve watched movies in less time.


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