November 18, 2014
The Bike Horn Collection Volume 1
— Careless Whisper is particularly touching; from April, but new to me (via) #
The Last Time
— a musicomic from 2008 about time travel and love by the multitalented Lucy Knisley #
Handmade Hero
— creating a game from scratch and streaming the process on Twitch, weeknights at 8pm PST #
Desert Bus VR
— simulate the thrill of driving from Tucson to Vegas at a blistering 45 miles per hour #
Space Age released
— Neven Mrgan and Matt Comi's new iOS game inspired by classic point-and-click adventures #
Cabel Sasser on making the Space Age soundtrack
— the 1992 article with a 15-year-old Cabel is just adorable #
Peter "brokep" Sunde released from prison
— never should've been there in the first place, a goddamned travesty #
They Might Be Giants' Instant Fan Club 2015
— interesting direct-to-fan experiment, and a crazy deal #
Random Darknet Shopper
— bot that randomly spends $100 in Bitcoin from Silk Road-like marketplaces #
50,000 Meows
— convert text to meows, keeping its original punctuation and word length; here's Moby Dick #
Seraphs, Liza Daly's algorithmic Voynich Manuscript-inspired book
— part of NaNoGenMo, a contest to algorithmically generate 50,000-word novels; more entries #
Oculus Rift 1980s arcade simulator
— next step would be hooking it up to MAME, currently Game Boy Color only #
Bob Sabiston talks about turning down Steve Jobs, three times
— the animation pioneer was the creator behind Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly #
Playing individual keystroke histories in Google Docs
— I had no idea Google was saving revisions at this granularity #
The Diatomist
— the sole practitioner of the Victorian art of arranging single-cell algae; more photos (via) #
Independent Games Festival 2015 entries
— 639 entries, some of the best of indie gaming on a single page #