Posts Tagged ‘Retro’
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Nov 27, 2010
♫ My Friend, the Game Designer
Posted in Games, People, Reports, Seph Carissa / texx sound
A good friend of mine is a game designer who designs actual games, and recently he asked me for one little favor which made me feel honored at first but also a little clueless on second thought, stressed in the process and eventually set me under creative pressure. But in the end everything turned out well… -
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Aug 10, 2010
BleepCast – Level 5
Posted in BleepCast, Films, Games, Retro, Seph Carissa / texx sound
The BleepCast inspects covers, remixes and de-makes of our favorite tunes in the last 30 years in this level and asks how everything started, how it evolved and where it all went. This is a broad topic and so there’s no screwing around: This BleepCast hits you massively with 50 minutes of pure nerdsound, spoken and played alike. And the best of all: You’ll love it! I’m happy, Bob! -
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Feb 20, 2010
Homo Ludens
Posted in Games, Reports, Retro
Max, a former fellow student, asked me a few weeks ago whether I was interested in buying some old gaming consoles with a bunch of games from him. Since I started collecting and maintaining old computers and gaming consoles a couple of years ago, starting with the few I had since I was a kid, I was interested in Max’ offer, expecting not more than a few dusty plastic boxes with missing cables and scratched game discs with broken jewel cases to add to my museum. Man, was I wrong! -
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Apr 22, 2008
Surf your mp3s!
Posted in Games, Music
Ever played Audiosurf? That addictive little fucker! I’ve downloaded the demo because I was a little bit curious as I always am when there’s some hype ebbing away and I feel “underground” enough to give it a try myself. But what is Audiosurf anyway? It creates from a song of your choice a unique race track resembling the tempo, intensity and dynamic of that song. Nothing really new. But the community connection via Steam evokes some Trackmania United atmosphere: If there’s somebody who’s played the same song as you then the game automatically compares your scores and performance. As a competitive grunting male I am prone to scoreboards… If you already know what it is about please refer to the last paragraphs — there’s a challenge for you…
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Mar 29, 2008
Thinkers
Posted in Dear Diary, Random Thoughts, Reports
The past weeks I spent halfheartedly working on my online portfolio site philstrahl.com in order to spread some more applications for my summer job — hopefully in the field of digital visual effects and compositing. And today I did it: I sent my application to Digital Domain. -
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Jan 12, 2008
Eat my shorts!
Posted in Computing, Games, Rants, Retro, Reviews
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Jul 08, 2007
My 1990′s, Pt. 1: PC Gaming Mags
Posted in Games, Random Thoughts, Reports, Retro, Reviews
My favorite PC gaming magazine, GameStar decided not to print cheats, tricks and hints for games anymore:The internet has established itself as source for cheats and hints; you will find more up to date and more accurate walk-throughs at www.gamestar.de and on many other sites than possible in the magazine. 1
That is another way of telling that printed media are sooner or later becoming extinct. That’s why I decided to take a look back into the wild and crazy 1990s and my personal experiences with PC-Gaming magazines.
Read the rest…- Original: Das Internet hat sich als Quelle für Cheats und Tipps etabliert, auf www.gamestar.de und vielen anderen Seiten finden Sie aktuellere und ausführlichere Lösungen, als sie in einem Heft möglich sind. ↩
