BBSes were hugely transformative - on one hand, local and community oriented, and on the other, capable of being connected into an international network called FidoNet, which was considerably competitive with the early Internet. End of an era. +++ ATH
If you live in Chicago membership of the Art Institute is low-key the best money you can spend in the city. Just, any time you're downtown pop in and look at a bunch of impressionist masterpieces
Hilariously this is still the top result when you google "Atari Missile Command" And by "hilariously" I mean "thanks I hate it"
We're getting turned into a museum exhibit! If you're in the Chicagoland area, we'd love to see you on opening night! Otherwise come visit during it's run from October to February www.paperlesspost.com/go/KrKX9anhr...
Oh this is a fun thread about unintended consequences in system design. :)
Seeing a bunch of gamedev conversations comparing AI hype to the recent VR hype wave (again). It's pretty frustrating, because AI has been part of gamedev for *decades* now. It's a standard part of the stack, a simple collection of workhorse technologies that get used in many (tho not all) games.
Great, short, sharp opinion piece. The whole question of being uncomfortable - or at least unable to relate - when playing as a very different person is a big one. And games are harder than other media because we're not asking players to observe - we're asking them to actually *be* that person.
"We’re merely interacting with the world, not being a part of it." Justin Grandfield (@rorenado.bsky.social) explores how representation of gay men in video games comes with the cost of optionalization. intothespine.com/2024/09/21/o...
For this week's Fragments, Justin Grandfield explores how representation of gay men in video games comes with the cost of optionalization.
Amazing :)
From the warped mind that got DirectPlay to work with modern compilers comes DirectDraw. Now with working samples! github.com/Olde-Skuul/d...
DirectDraw SDK for Windows. Contribute to Olde-Skuul/directdraw development by creating an account on GitHub.
