Video: The ultimate speedrun of Quake.
And just to check, does anyone know of essays about speedrunning?
-David
Fez Puzzles and Crowdsource Solutions
The recent indie platformer Fez turns out to be full of puzzles and cryptography. This Ars Technica article looks at how players collaborated online to crack the hardest puzzles. -Erik (Yes, I know the semester is over.)
IRL Tetris
Night Trap: a drama-inspired, film game with some sweet sweet jams.
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/169159/the_origins_of_night_trap_an_.php
-David
A platformer convention.
Skyrim live-action trailer
"For the truth is that as the homeric bards played the stories of Achilles and Odysseus, [George RR] Martin plays the stories of the Starks, the Lannisters, and the Targaryens, and I play Skyrim. And, in each case, our play is bounded by a ruleset that controls the choices we make and the effect those choices have on the state of the performance in which we are currently engaged. Moreover, I want to suggest, those rulesets may be read comparatively in the way they specifically allow the player to play a mythic past."
New MLA guidelines for Digital Scholarship
I haven’t had a chance to read through these yet, but Rosemary Feal’s making some noise about them.
- Nate
