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What can one learn from the design choices of past games?
John Harris discusses different game aspects, 20 games at a time, at Game Design Essentials. You can read on
20 Open World Games (where generally the player is left to his own devices to explore a large world), see your destroyed controllers in a new light with
20 Difficult Games or check out
20 Mysterious Games (that rely on algorithmically-generated content or emphasize secret-hunting),
20 Unusual Control Schemes and
20 Atari Games. What about roguelikes, you say?
posted to MetaFilter by ersatz
at 4:38 PM on September 30, 2008
(51 comments)
To some,
Exclaim! is more or less the northern equivalent of Pitchfork, a free monthly mag for the hipster masses. But I've always enjoyed the way their Questionnaire page provides an often surprisingly clear glimpse into an odd array of celebrities' lives. This month's subject is
Motörhead’s Lemmy.
posted to MetaFilter by mannequito
at 12:32 AM on October 1, 2008
(30 comments)
Heavy Metal Jr
is an amusing & sweet little documentary about a heavy metal band called Hatred, average age 11.
posted to MetaFilter by dydecker
at 3:21 AM on September 16, 2008
(32 comments)
Did you grow up anticipating sports where death would be likely, if not certain? Almost certainly played by convicts, possibly with robot limbs? And which would be even more likely to have chainsaws and flamethrowers not usually found in the sports of today?
Those We Left Behind’s look at Future-sports of the past, in
videogames,
movies and
comics is for you!
posted to MetaFilter by Artw
at 1:43 PM on September 11, 2008
(41 comments)
Above Enemy Lines (youtube
1,
2,
3,
4,
5) is a BBC Documentary about a
RAF Chinook crew on their tour of duty in Afghanistan. Part 4 and 5 of the film deal with the crew attempting to rescue a wounded 19 year-old soldier from a combat zone.
posted to MetaFilter by krautland
at 12:05 PM on September 8, 2008
(7 comments)
Forty years ago, Swinging London was yet to swing. Everything was in black and white and, in class-bound Britain, fashion photographers were trades-men – polite, smart, seen but not heard. A new breed of snappers changed all that – Terry O’Neill, Brian Duffy, David Bailey and Terence Donovan. Bailey and Donovan started their careers in the West End studio of the doyen of fashion photographers – John French.
posted to MetaFilter by nickyskye
at 2:29 PM on September 1, 2008
(11 comments)
The legendary
Ken Campbell has died. Interested in
everything, apparantly. Just as excited to visit
Damanhur as he was to go to
CERN, just down the road. Fluent in Bislama, the creole of Vanuatu, into which he translated
Macbeth. Founder of the Science Fiction Theatre of Liverpool, which performed epic productions of
The Warp,
Illuminatus! and
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Not quite Doctor Who (he was beaten to the role by former protogé Sylvester McCoy). A fount of knowledge on the theatre, comedy, Fortean strangeness and science and anything else you care to mention, all of which he spun together with extensive flights of imagination into glorious, hilarious one-man shows. Totally irreplaceable, and devastating loss.
posted to MetaFilter by Grangousier
at 1:35 PM on September 1, 2008
(16 comments)
What Is YOUR Best Photography Tip, Secret, Trick, Lesson, Technique, or Hack?
posted to Ask Metafilter by chrisalbon
at 5:46 PM on August 22, 2008
(82 comments)
"In Wells, God writes the human narrative, in Moore's version, it is humanity that ghostwrites its own story and credits it to God. The decision left to humanity is whether it will script its own history consciously, or allow the narrative to be shaped secretly by leaders and figures of authority..." The
historiography (alternate, longer
explanation) of
Alan Moore. Warning: long.
posted to MetaFilter by flibbertigibbet
at 6:15 PM on August 14, 2008
(14 comments)
"
Herbie Popnecker is unique among superheroes. While looking less like a superhero than any other, he may also be the most powerful.
Herbie can "
fly" by walking through air, or
space, or
water.
Herbie can
travel through time, or
the ground,
or
through walls (some damage occurs),
sometimes
breaking the fourth wall.
Herbie is the
least emotional of any super hero, and one of
few words.
Herbie defeats many of his opponents by
looking at them, but sometimes,
he bops them with this here lollipop."
Herbie's further powers are examined thoroughly at
Herbie Popnecker: Examples of Recurring Themes.
posted to MetaFilter by carsonb
at 12:40 AM on August 11, 2008
(32 comments)
Okay, so I found a recommendation for Iain Banks' The Wasp Factory via an old AskMe thread and picked it up.
posted to Ask Metafilter by A Terrible Llama
at 7:22 AM on August 6, 2008
(15 comments)
"I think we should get paid for it, don't you, Stan?"
"I'll do what I usually do: he'll do all the work and I'll take all the credit."
Stan Lee, comics legend, and
Grant Morrison, fan favourite writer,
sparring with each other.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw
at 11:44 AM on July 25, 2008
(52 comments)
What is your
one best
ethical suggestion for promoting a blog/website?
posted to Ask Metafilter by cjorgensen
at 10:27 PM on July 7, 2008
(17 comments)
Joseph Szabo has been photographing his teenage students for the past twenty-five years, and has perfectly captured the ambivalence of that time of life. Samples from his books:
Almost Grown,
Jones Beach,
Teenage, and
Rolling Stones Fans.
posted to MetaFilter by dobbs
at 5:43 PM on June 30, 2008
(20 comments)
The
25 Greatest
Electronic Albums of the 20th Century. From the
instrument that was created by
Leon Theremin, to the
Moog Guitar that's been named after the legendary
Bob Moog (the inventor of the
Moog Synthesizer),
Electronic music has come a
long way since
its early days. YouTube [
a,
b,
(extreme caution advised: graphic images of death, destruction and 9/11 c),
d,
e,
f,
g,
h,
i,
j,
k,
l,
m,
n,
o,
p,
q,
r,
s,
t,
u,
v,
w,
x,
y]
(Previously mentioned here, here, here, here, here and here)
posted to MetaFilter by hadjiboy
at 10:36 AM on June 29, 2008
(84 comments)
Professional photographers: What blogs, resources, sites do you use/recommend for keeping up to date, trends, reviews, techniques, experiences with vendors, etc?
posted to Ask Metafilter by pmaxwell
at 7:05 AM on June 9, 2008
(13 comments)
With all the
crystal skulls,
nazca lines and such at the box office these days now might be the ideal time to reacquaint yourself with the theories of
Erich von Däniken. What better way to do it than by watching
William Shatners Mysteries of the Gods (
Pt. 1,
Pt. 2,
Pt. 3,
Pt. 4,
Pt. 5,
Pt. 6,
Pt. 7,
Pt. 8,
Pt. 9,
Pt. 10)
(MULTI LINK YOUTUBE SHATNERFEST)
posted to MetaFilter by Artw
at 10:00 PM on June 10, 2008
(28 comments)
I just watched 24 Hour Party People and I love the music. I want to know as much as I possibly can about the Manchester music scene that produced these people and the people themselves. Please recommend some films,books or television programs that can inform the crap out of me
posted to Ask Metafilter by carefulmonkey
at 10:13 AM on June 8, 2008
(15 comments)
True Romance: 15 years later.
Maxim article (hence slightly NSFW ads) with interviews with Christian Slater, Tony Scott, Quinten Tarantino, etc. If you're a fan of behind-the-scenes gossip, or the film -- or both -- it's an interesting read.
posted to MetaFilter by zardoz
at 6:27 PM on May 27, 2008
(46 comments)
Well, young folk, there was a time, y'know, when bands would put their band name on the kick drum head, so the audience could see the name of the band, y'see? Why, best as I can recall, the
The Yardbirds did it, and
The Zombies, too. And
The Hollies. Oh, and did I mention
The Yardbirds? Well, my memory's not what it used to be... oh, and there was those boys from Liverpool, used to sing about
Kansas Cty so well, why, you'd think they'd actually
been there! Now, there was this one band called themselves the
Spencer Davis Group, but I never could figure out why, cause it was that little Winwood fella just outta knee pants who was the star of
that show!
posted to MetaFilter by flapjax at midnite
at 8:08 AM on May 17, 2008
(20 comments)
Starting in 1979, late night TV viewers had their ears assaulted by hard-sell ads for musicians they had never heard of (or didn't know sang), such as
Roger Whittaker (
bio),
Jim Nabors, Boxcar Willie (
bio), Zamfir (master of the pan flute -
bio), and yodeller Slim Whitman (
bio), whose voice
literally causes heads to explode. The ads made astonishing claims -- "sold more albums in Britain than the Beatles and Elvis combined!" And a lot of viewers -- some perhaps stoned -- called now. (Roger Whitaker -- 4 million albums. Slim Whitman - 4 million albums. Boxcar Willie - 3 million. Zamfir - 1.1 million).
Others just watched, dumbfounded.
posted to MetaFilter by msalt
at 4:03 PM on May 1, 2008
(61 comments)
Great Lovecraft-inspired movies?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Durn Bronzefist
at 9:47 PM on April 21, 2008
(37 comments)
Superstar Scottish comics writer
Grant Morrison is about to tear the DC Universe apart again with
Final Crisis, the latest in a series of apocalypses and world ending events he's inflicted
on various comics worlds over the years. But there was a time before fame when he wrote the tie-in comic for
ZOIDS, the robot dinosaur children's toy. So what did he do? Ushered in the apocalypse, in the form of
THE BLACK ZOID.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw
at 8:53 PM on April 17, 2008
(74 comments)
A reliable work-at-home part-time job?
posted to Ask Metafilter by deeman
at 2:33 PM on April 6, 2008
(10 comments)
Are video game reviews legitimate? How does the "official" video game review system really work?
posted to Ask Metafilter by brandnew
at 6:14 AM on April 6, 2008
(21 comments)
What is the happiest and catchiest (mostly) unknown pop song you know?
posted to Ask Metafilter by humannaire
at 10:15 PM on March 27, 2008
(115 comments)
Cliffhangers "In Focus"
is an entertaining, well-written overview of the rise and decline of action serial movies of the 1930s and 40s. It also includes rundowns of many major serial films of the time. Several of these serials are now available online. Links to them are inside.
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate
at 7:29 PM on March 26, 2008
(4 comments)
