Tuesday December 26, 2006 |
Tuesday December 26, 2006 Sometimes the future ain't better than the pastLooking at the Xmas (computer) games we over the last couple of days, we all decided we rather missed Twinsen's "Little Big Adventure". We seem to have had this game since we first got a computer in the house. It is a delightfull, if some what surreal, third party adventure set in a fantasy world. The games house that wrote it is/was french. (You can google or wikipedia it, and the produced a followup.) It looks like its abandonware now, we'll see. I have tried to run it on the new computer's but the game predates Direct-X. It is for this reason that I searched for, found and bookmarked these dos emulators!. tags: Games old twinsen LBA dos 
(2006-12-26 03:04:30.0) Permalink Some machinima viewing...Recovering from Xmas day excesses and I thought I'd share some internet fun. In business everyone's trying to get aboard the user generated content thing and we have an exciting collision of trends, the declining cost of video capture, the declining cost of the bandwidth to distribute it, and the games industries growing tendency to enable scripting and video screen capture. These trends offer a new and accessable mass media form, with very low cost barriers to entry. For those who don't know, the art form of story telling within a game engine combined with video distribution is known as "machinima" [wikipedia:machinima]. So here are a couple, two of my favourite machinima videos are
For those for whom the virtual world just makes you into Lardarses, we have a unique mashing of music, dance and treadmills.
and a sci-fi tribute to what the Guardian describes as the best political drama of the year
You might like to also see Sun's Big Mashup, which isn't quite as funny & http://www.machinima.com/, one of the leading community sites, well at least it got the name first and some of the tools are the dogs'. Don't forget the Edwin Beekveld's Hobbits. I have put the links in my front page sidebar. tags: Technology machinima fun silly
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