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GrifBall

nthdegx — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:16:38 -0800

GrifBall! Red Vs. Blue's Sarge and Caboose introduce the rules. A sample match: Bungie Vs. RvB. Context: Since the release of online multiplayer first-person shooter Halo 3, Bungie have allowed players to customise maps with the placement of objects, weapons, spawn points etc. using the Forge feature. Combined with customisable rule sets, unusually innovative custom games are possible. With the release of the downloadable Legendry Map Pack, Bungie offered a map called the Foundry, which is essentially a blank canvas for players to customise. Although it featured an array of barricades, ramps, and vantage points in its default layout, this could be recreated from scratch using the Forge, demonstrating the flexibility now available to players. It didn't take long for the folks at Rooster Teeth (the guys behind seminal machinima comedy Red Vs Blue) to combine the powers of the Forge, the customisable rules and use the open space available in Foundry to invent GrifBall, a lethal and frenetic virtual future-sport (itself a heavily adapted mod of the Assault game type) which has since been a regular feature of Bungie's double-XP weekends and has associated tournaments.

"Report a la bug. (That's French for bug report)." Halo 3 Linkorama.

nthdegx — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:55:47 -0800

Halo 3: Easter eggs, including the excellent Red Vs Blue in-game dialog easter egg; the RvB Halo 3 beta initiation; 3D images and how-to (dig out your glasses); achievements, ranks, armor, skulls, and campaign scoring explained; Bungie's favorites (videos, pics, maps, game variants to download to your 360)... and that grenade stick.

Marathon - Halo's predecessor

Down10 — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:50:41 -0800

Halo 3? Phooey! Sure, Bungie's latest title in greatest series for the Xbox is released tomorrow, but for some perspective, take a look at Marathon: Aleph One — the free, open source engine to Bungie's first achievement, the Marathon Trilogy. Once a Mac-only title, Marathon's source code was released to the public by Bungie in 2000 (shortly before joining the Microsoft empire). The Aleph One project has expanded vastly since then, and is now available for Windows, Mac, Linux & more, has multi-player support over LAN and IP, and comes with plenty of downloadable additions, including the first three Marathon games (1, 2, and Infinity) and dozens of user-created maps, graphics, tools and scenarios. And if you wish, you can still download the original Mac games and map editors for free.

Halo 3: play-testing evolved

nthdegx — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 15:32:53 -0800

Halo 3: Play-testing evolved.

Photoshop Artist Craig Mullins

jonson — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 10:30:42 -0800

Craig Mullins is a commercial photoshop artist & videogame fan. In the mid 90s, after a couple amateur pieces of fan art he created for the game Marathon made their way to the folks at Bungie, he was hired to create a series of Halo themed art for the company. His full portfolio of commercial & personal work is interesting.

Son of Bees or Bees Knees?

metameme — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 16:25:17 -0800

Son of Bees or Bees Knees? Looks like the Halo crowd may have uncovered another I Love Bees or maybe just the Bees Knees?

Who Was Photog?

andrewzipp — Fri, 23 May 2003 06:47:38 -0800

Who Was Photog? In 1986, an 11-year-old boy named Nathan Bitner designed a character named Fearless Photog. He won a contest to have his creation made into an action figure in the He-Man/Masters of the Universe line. The figure was never actually never produced. In 2003, a website specializing in 80's junk culture asked Who was Nathan Bitner? (scroll down for the comments). It's a story about call girl named Gemini, working for Bungie (creators of Halo), insurmountable credit card dept, joining the army at 28...

machaus — Sat, 26 Jan 2002 21:47:22 -0800

Did Bungie Software release their April Fool's joke ahead of schedule and under budget?