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A new book exploring the relationship between cinema and videogames. Edited by Geoff King & Tanya Krzywinska.
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February 2003 posts
February 28, 2003
February 25, 2003
The neverending story, I mean game. Well, game/story
The BBC reports on North Carolina State University 's efforts on games that can adapt on-the-fly to the players actions in order to produce interesting experiences. The good news: they claim to have some prototypes. The bad news: they are not available online. Here's the link to their research site.
February 21, 2003
My kingdom for a chick game
(from a story from the New York Times. Free registration required) "Mr. Young cautions that not every film, no matter how popular or celebrated, can be adapted into a video game. For example, gamers are not likely to see "The Hours" or "Chicago" games popping up on their Play- Station 2 consoles. Action, fantasy and science fiction genres appear to be the most adaptable. "We rule out chick movies," Ms. Vrabeck said with a chuckle. "
February 20, 2003
Fellowship Applications at CRIC (University of Manchester)
As part of the European Commission's new funding programme, Framework Programme 6 (FP6), opportunities exist for researchers, either mobile within Europe or coming into Europe, to spend 12-24 months at a host institution. CRIC - the ESRC Centre for Research on Innovation & Competition - at the University of Manchester is keen to build upon its success in Framework Programme 5 (FP5) by hosting a number of Fellowships under FP6. As such, it is offering to support high quality applications from researchers looking to undertake their research within the Centre.
February 19, 2003
P2P (Pee Pee) Simulation
The wonderful world of advergaming tries hard to catch your attention. Well, here's a refreshing peeing simulation for you to analyze and enjoy (thanks Horacio!).
February 18, 2003
Michael Mateas' Thesis
Michael Mateas' thesis is available in pdf format ("Interactive Drama, Art and Artificial Intelligence").. Michael is one of the developers of Facade (with Andrew Stern), probably the most interesting and ambicious interactive fiction project around.
February 17, 2003
Digital Games Research Conference 2003
DiGRA today announced its brand new conference, which will be held at University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, on November 5-8, 2003. The Call for Papers is still not out, but should be available later this year. The deadline for submission will be by the end of April but, again, the actual dates remain to be announced.nnI am thrilled at seeing the field expanding and certain a big new conference is exactly what it needs for this year. Stay tuned for more info. Meanwhile, read the press release.
Fruits and videogames
Today I overheard two persons talking on the quality of Japanse fruit candy. As real fruit is extremely expensive in Japan, these people argued that Japanese people excelled at recreating their original flavor. A peach candy is certainly a simulated peach, at least by my definition of simulation.
February 16, 2003
Xbox versus PS2
The NY Times takes a look at the current status of Microsoft's console. (NYTimes requires free registration)
Italian Game Design Course
Italian course on game design by Prof. Francesco Lutrario at Milan State University (in Italian)r
rurl: http://webcen.usr.dsi.unimi.it/2002-03/digitale/game_design/
rurl: http://webcen.usr.dsi.unimi.it/2002-03/digitale/game_design/
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