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UpUpDnDn: March 2013
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Sunday, March 31, 2013. Beyond The Mojang GDC Party Controversy. Meet My Sister, Trinity - A Model Who Gets "Paid To Party". Last week at GDC, the epic-sounding “.party()” thrown by Mojang, the studio behind Minecraft, came under scrutiny for hiring girls - presumably models - to attend and mingle with guests. Kotaku’s account of the event. Twitter hashtag have been both pointed and productive. But is this Mojang party a justifiable cause for offense? After the jump, I speak to her in detail about whats ...
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UpUpDnDn: September 2010
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Monday, September 27, 2010. One of the most incredible screenshots I've stumbled across in ages, courtesy of a 1987 Commodore 64 title. Posted by Jason Killingsworth. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Zelda: Skyward Sword (Wii). There was an error in this gadget. Great Minds Think Aloud. Note: Lightning-kicking bear is the work of artist Luke Chueh.
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UpUpDnDn: November 2010
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Tuesday, November 9, 2010. In M Night Shyamalan’s film The Sixth Sense. Fate curses Bruce Willis with the supernatural ability to see dead people. My curse is the ability to spot juicy metaphors that can be flogged until they’re dead. I'm a metaphor junkie. I guess it’s just my cross to b—a rghhhh. Almost walked right smack into that one.) Recently I’ve been struck by how perfectly the indie platformer Super Meat Boy. Overall game = writing project (novel, essay, dissertation, etc). Level = sentence unit.
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UpUpDnDn: August 2011
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Friday, August 12, 2011. Was the Halo: Reach menu screen painted by Thomas Kinkade? Could be a single canvas. (Click to enlarge). Posted by Jason Killingsworth. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Zelda: Skyward Sword (Wii). There was an error in this gadget. Great Minds Think Aloud. Note: Lightning-kicking bear is the work of artist Luke Chueh.
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UpUpDnDn: April 2011
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Sunday, April 3, 2011. Throwing Shapes: An Informal Tetris Lexicon. When we lived together briefly during college, my younger brother Josh and I played a lot of Tetris. Like a whole lot of Tetris. We played so much Tetris, in fact, that we quickly found ourselves needing a more nuanced language to discuss the types of scenarios we encountered in the game. I touched on our shared Tetris vocabulary in Player One, Player Two, the essay I wrote for Kill Screen Issue 0. Posted by Jason Killingsworth.
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UpUpDnDn: March 2011
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Monday, March 7, 2011. Posted by Jason Killingsworth. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Zelda: Skyward Sword (Wii). There was an error in this gadget. Great Minds Think Aloud. Note: Lightning-kicking bear is the work of artist Luke Chueh.
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UpUpDnDn: September 2011
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011. Jetpack Joyride High-Score Tips. A friend recently asked me what strategy I used in Jetpack Joyride to crack the global top 10 (I've since slipped to 60-somethingth place or so). Figured I'd cc: the tips here on my blog in case they can help any other players boost their distances. I'm playing on iPhone, which puts me at a slight disadvantage in terms of obscuring approaching obstacles with my finger. The solution I settled on is cradling the phone in my left hand and tap...
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UpUpDnDn: February 2013
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Thursday, February 21, 2013. Drop7, Or Why Is It So Difficult to Put to Bed the Suspicion of Cosmic Agency? It’s up to me, and only me, to decide what on earth I'm going to do next. Posted by Jason Killingsworth. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Zelda: Skyward Sword (Wii). There was an error in this gadget. Drop7, Or Why Is It So Difficult to Put to Bed the. Great Minds Think Aloud. Note: Lightning-kicking bear is the work of artist Luke Chueh.
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UpUpDnDn: February 2011
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Monday, February 21, 2011. If She Dies, You Die. My wife Summer is away for several weeks. She headed off to Florida with the baby for an extended family visit. Ain’t much sunshine in the UK to begin with, but to paraphrase singer Bill Withers, the pall certainly feels more pronounced when she’s away. If she dies, you die. Strangely enough, I’ve played two games recently that have used this very concept as a gameplay mechanic— Ico. And Enslaved: Odyssey to the West. Posted by Jason Killingsworth. The blo...
