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November 22, 2007 | Regulus
Finally - an update to Regulus. The updates are coming further and further apart, and this is simply because the theme does everything I set out to do… and quite a bit more. This version is mostly bug fixes but there are a couple of nice new features.
Additions
- The banner image is now a link, meaning you can click it to go to your homepage. You can also change this link to point anywhere you like, which is good for those of you who use Wordpress as a blog and something else for the rest of your website.
- You can also now change the text for the home link in the tabbed navigation. The main reason for this is for people who use the static homepage feature of wordpress, but it’s also nice to be able to customise things that little bit more.
- Finally there are a few new colour schemes - nothing …
Steven Poole, a journalist from the UK, is someones whos insight into games has always intrigued me. I used to be a regular reader of Edge magazine, a UK gaming journal that catered for the more mature gamer. Edge tended to steer away from the childish stereotypes and over the top-ness of many gaming magazines, instead they tended to have more insightful features and reviews, never fearing to be honest - in a critical way. Occasionally they were rather too opinionated but it was a good read and one of my favourite parts was Steven Pooles column, one page a month dedicated to his thoughts.
Trigger Happy, originally published in 2000 with the subtitle “The Inner Life of Videogames”, is a book about the aesthetics of videogames: what they share with other artforms, and the ways in which they are unique. I also presented a BBC TV documentary entitled Trigger …
Q. What do you get if you cross a Nintendo Wii, with an LED array?
A. A scene from Minority Report… in your own home.
There’s not much to write about here - it’s all explained in the video below.
I would love to have something like this on the Wii for real. I’m surprised they managed to get two points, multi input, working as well. I’d have thought that needed changes to the Wii’s hardware to work.
Found on Tranism.
November 14, 2007 | Links
Crestock.com, the stock photo website, are currently running a Photoshop competition with some pretty big prizes. All you have to do is take the seasonal stock photos they have chosen and create a work of art.
There are four rounds with different themes, and you can contribute one image for each round. Sign-up and submission is completely free and without commitment.
For each round we will supply a set of source photos from our image library. Your entry must be based on one or several of these photos, but you are free to do with them whatever you like. You may also use other elements in your design, as long as one or more of the source images can be recognised as a central part of your design.
The prizes are…
- Round 1 - iPod Classic + iPod Nano
- Round 2 - MacBook 13″ White
- MacBook Pro 15″
- Mac Pro + Dual 30″ Cinema Displays
I’m not …
Whilst working on my update to Binary Moon I’ve been thinking about the differences between websites and blogs. One of the things I am trying to do with the updated design is steer slightly away from the stereotypical blog layout and use lessons learnt from more traditional website design.
Since blogs first came about the designs have evolved considerably but the basic structure seems to remain the same. You have article pages (the blog posts), normal pages (contact, about etc) and archive pages. It’s almost like there is a set of defined rules that you have to follow - and it’s become so formulaic that I sometimes get confused as to what site I am on. Please don’t get me wrong - there are loads of wonderfully designed blogs out there, but as a rule they are often pretty graphics on top of the same old structure.
Recently there has been
This is equal parts cute, cool, and awesome.
The latest game from Valve, Portal, involves a clever device that let’s you create portals to travel from one place to another.
This awesome papercraft replicates the wonderful game. I love the simplicity (something I am a big fan of in general), the colours, the design - the lot.
Unlike most papercraft it’s even something I could do myself.
Check out the original Portal, papercraft post on Blogspot.
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