Category: Personal
If you’re looking for my samples folder, it’s here.
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The top 100 most-influential videogames (2014 edition).
Back in 2014, I contributed a list of the 100 most influential video games for a book called 10,000 Things You Need to Know: The Big Book of Lists in the UK. I’ve reproduced the list here.
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Leonard Cohen (2)
“I heard there was a secret chord/That David played, and it pleased the Lord/But you don’t really care for music, do you?”
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Deathbed Recommendations
I had to go to the hospital a few weeks ago, so a doctor could put a camera up my urethra. There was a very small chance that what he found was going to be the death of me…
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The Itch
I keep getting diseases that are tortures. Not real tortures, not like ending up in a Turkish prison and having all that shit happening to you, whilst your president whistles the tune of the ECHR and shows the press your grave-to-be. Not that kind of torture. Just mild psychological torture.
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Motion sickness and double glazing: the challenges of developing a game for VR | TechRadar
These early applications could be paralleled with the Lumières’ The Arrival of the Mail Train, utterly impressive when shown in the late 1800s (the audience reportedly panicked with the large train coming towards them on the screen), yet where the media creators are still testing the basics of their techniques for presentation and communication. Like…