Archive for June 2005
BBC – GamePlan competition
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.
Video Game Usability
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 ...
Google Earth
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 ...
NES games aplenty
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.
Railway Congestion Charges… Great!
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 ...
Extras
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.
Things you’ve bought when drunk..?
B3ta asks the question - what have you bought when you were drunk?
Link Round-Up
I had a week off work recently and during that time I got rather behind with news on the web. I've listed a few of the posts I found interesting below.
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