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First it was channel4, now the BBC have joined in.
This time rather than make a game you have to design it and the winner will get their game design turned into a real web game. The judging panel includes Peter Molyneaux of Lionhead and Bullfrog fame.
If you’re interested in entering you can get more information here.
Usability is an integral part of software development and has been so for the past 20 years. For one reason or another, usability has not gained similar popularity in game development. This, however, is about to change.
There is an article on Gamasutra about usability in video games. A lot of the things mentioned are similar to the topics people have been talking about in the web design community for a while now, and I think it’s great that game developers are starting to put more emphasis on the user experience, by that I don’t just mean the gameplay experience but the game as a whole (menus, control, interface etc). That’s not to say every developer ignores it’s users but with more and more formulaic games being released (*cough* colour matching games … *cough*) more effort should be put into the user experience. This is one area that indie developers …
Google has released a new product called Google Earth - [via]
Google Earth puts a planet’s worth of imagery and other geographic information right on your desktop. View exotic locales like Maui and Paris as well as points of interest such as local restaurants, hospitals, schools, and more.
Previously called Keyhole (Keyhole.com now forwards to Google Earth), Google Earth is an atlas on your desktop. You can view the entire world as a big globe with satellite photography showing how things look. The globe is a 3d object that, as well as being round, shows the topology of the landscape you are currently viewing.
Like Google Maps it lets you enter an address and be taken there instantly. Unlike Keyhole there is a free version that is actually free. The demo of Keyhole decided to chain itself to your computer, and you had to create an unlock code using …
Someone is selling every NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) game ever released in the US (minus 10) on Ebay. 776 games are in the auction and, rather strangely, one of the ones missing is Mario Brothers!
Makes me want to brush the dust off my R.O.B the Robot and get down to some Gyromiting. R.O.B wasn’t released in the UK so I am rather glad I kept hold of him.
Now that they’ve priced us off the roads by charging £5 to enter London in a car (soon to be £8) the railway companies have decided that the best thing to do is add a ‘congestion charge’ for trains.
The whole point of congestion charges was to get people off the roads and onto public transport. Part of the congestion charges was supposed to be spent improving public transport (including trains) and now we’re expected to pay extra for an underperforming service that we already pay for. Why on earth would we want to pay more for the privilege of sitting (if you’re lucky… standing is more common) next to sweaty business men? The reason is simple; there is no other choice! Unless I can convince my boss to let me work from home (I guess one bonus is I won’t have to listen to his music) I’m going …
Ricky Gervais, best known as author and star of the BBC tv sitcom the office, has now got information about his new show, Extras, available on his website. You can also check out the BBC page about extras but they’re pretty much the same.
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