August 31, 2011
Minecraft in Minecraft
— a very, very minimalist 2D Minecraft built with redstone circuits in Minecraft (via) #
Daily Dot on Hollywood Leaks
— the new group is skipping the politics and hacking the entertainment industry for lulz #
Flickr introduces geofence privacy controls
— more on their dev blog about how the feature came to be #
Mari0, a work-in-progress Mario meets Portal game
— from the creator of Not Tetris 2, Tetris with physics (via) #
Chess@home
— distributed chess AI in JS using Web Workers, written in 48 hours for node.js Knockout #
Portal's Kim Swift demos Quantum Conundrum
— a mind-bending puzzle game with alternate dimensions that modify weight and time #
Why Amazon Can't Make a Kindle in the US
— fascinating five-part series on America's shift to overseas manufacturing (via) #
Jeff Rubin interviews Muxtape creator Justin Ouellette
— years later, very interesting to hear his story of getting sued out of existence #
Akemi, a WebGL and haXe experiment
— best viewed in Firefox, part of the Mozilla Labs Demoparty (via) #
Jason McIntosh on Pilgrim in the Microworld, a 1983 book about Breakout
— long out of print, Jason's hosting a copy of the book in PDF form #
Unnerving Korean ghost story comic
— needs Flash; you don't need to read Korean to appreciate it, but here's the translation (via) #
Terry Gilliam on his process of making cut-out animations
— excellent examples of understanding constraints and working within them #
Retaliation, a weaponized build monitor
— automatically targets who broke the codebase and fires foam missiles at them (via) #
Programmable piano in Minecraft
— at 1:10, he places notes on the virtual piano roll; he also made a pig-powered slot machine and 5-channel sequencer #
Nieman Lab on curation in the age of information abundance
— digital archivists and content curators are important, but great creators provide valuable context #
First look at Disney's Wreck-It Ralph
— Disney goes 8-bit in an upcoming feature about arcade characters' secret lives (via) #
MC Frontalot's Solved, new album out today
— buy it immediately; Front also appeared on Mink Car Cover, a tribute to TMBG's ill-timed album #
The Daily Dot
— reporting notable events from major online communities like Reddit, Tumblr, and Twitter #
Gary Hudston's Portal 2 marriage proposal
— expertly done, down to hiring Ellen McLain for the voice acting (via) #
Prelude of the Chambered, a 48-hour Ludum Dare game by Minecraft's Notch
— he streamed most of the development; see all 500+ entries #
West Memphis Three freed under unusual plea deal
— it's unclear whether they can sue for 18 years of wrongful imprisonment #
Jon Rafman's Codes of Honor
— short machinima/live-action film about fighting game culture from the creator of 9 Eyes #
Golden Grid System
— from Joni Korpi, who also offers this nice trick for subtly hiding Typekit font replacement #
Plea deal could lead to release of West Memphis Three
— wrongly convicted with coerced false confessions, they've been stuck in jail since 1994 #