Tilting at windmills

The real world is overrated anyways.

(Source: doomy14, via 8bitreblog)

Practically impossible: The quest to decipher Fez's cryptic final puzzle

1 month ago

A game I worked on as a collaborative project.

I think it’s good: there’s a few bugs but the puzzles are solvable, don’t worry about that :) 

I welcome any comments, suggestions, critiques as we’re planning to make another game and I want it to be better.

Link: http://www.dhudsonweb.com/thetown/play.html

Art: Quixophilic
Programming: Derrick Hudson 
Music by ZeuDeux 

amazing, simply amazing. 

so truthfull.
of course, www.xkcd.con

so truthfull.

of course, www.xkcd.con

Man is certainly stark mad: he cannot make a worm, yet he will make gods by the dozen.

 Michel de Montaigne

This is from the game The Scale of the Universe 2

found here: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/589217

found this on stumble today, thought it was nice.
sorry, no source.

found this on stumble today, thought it was nice.

sorry, no source.

If Anonymous Made a Board Game

Cards Against Humanity

Designers: Josh Dillon, Daniel Dranove, Eli Halpern, Ben Hantoot, David Munk, David Pinsof, Max Temkin, Eliot Weinstein

Link: cardsagainsthumanity.com/
boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/50381/cards-against-humanity 

I haven’t played this game yet. As the website is also out of stock, I’m guessing one could think I won’t be able to play Cards Against Humanity anytime soon right? Not exactly: while I would love to get my hands on the official boxed set, this game has been released under the Creative Commons Licence. This means that anybody can print their own copy as long as they don’t make money out of it! The good people behind this game (see above) are truly men of vision! Not only does this game looks like an actually fun version of Apples to Apples; it enables you to be a cheap bastard (as long as you’re not a cheap, greedy bastard)!

 


The Darwin Economy

A great video from the RSA.

Watch Professor Robert Frank as he argues that in the next century Charles Darwin will unseat Adam Smith as the intellectual founder of economics.

Listen to the full event: http://www.thersa.org/events/audio-and-past-

Very interesting analysis on some misconception we have on the morality of our current capitalist system. 

vruz:

Adopt an Invader

—via Game Design Scrapbook
Krystian sez: I find the Idea astonishingly simple: you can randomly generate Space Invaders-like sprites by randomizing a two-color bitmap and mirroring it so it becomes symetrical. For a 5x5 pixel invader, there are 32,768 unique Permutations.


Nice. link is broken in originalcan be found here: http://gamedesignreviews.com/scrapbook/game-idea-adopt-an-invader/

vruz:

Adopt an Invader

—via Game Design Scrapbook

Krystian sez: I find the Idea astonishingly simple: you can randomly generate Space Invaders-like sprites by randomizing a two-color bitmap and mirroring it so it becomes symetrical. For a 5x5 pixel invader, there are 32,768 unique Permutations.

Nice. link is broken in original
can be found here: http://gamedesignreviews.com/scrapbook/game-idea-adopt-an-invader/

In the horizon of the infinite.

       We have left the land and have embarked. We have burned our bridges behind us—indeed, we have gone farther and destroyed the land behind us. Now, little ship, look out! Beside you is the ocean: to be sure, it does not always roar, and at times it lies spread out like silk and gold and reveries of graciousness. But hours will come when you will realize that it is infinite and that there is nothing more awesome than infinity. Oh, the poor bird that felt free and now strikes the walls of this cage! Woe, when you feel homesick for the land as if it had offered more freedom—and there is no longer any “land.”


Aph. 124, The gay science, Nietzsche

These are drawings I did, approx 10 hours of not-intensive, procrastinating-because-there’s-so-many-things-on-the-internet, work. The image is only a mock-up; I just wanted to see what the buildings would look like with a backdrop. Maybe this will be used somewhere, maybe this can be the start of a new game. Maybe not. we’ll see!

Oh I also uploaded the building blocks if anyone’s interested in trying shit out.

 Misc Buildings
by Quixophilic is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Canada License. 

“Whether it’s digital or traditional, my art is always grounded in my love of the image-making process and the sense of wonder I get from the ideas that inspire me. This inspiration often expresses itself in the form of surreal imagery where I let my subconscious take over, creating whatever feels intuitively correct. The end result hopefully reveals my respect and admiration for the techniques and spirit of the traditional masters.”

-         Ryan Kittleson, from his website

http://www.erraticimagery.com/