Gregory Weir recently released a new Flash-based adventure game called Bars of Black and White. And here are some thoughts: The game’s basic mechanic of using a scanner to read barcodes (found in all kinds of places and forms) is simple and original, and works excellently with the game’s Orwellian theme. Speaking of the theme [...]
All posts for the month January, 2009
Bars of Black and White
Posted by Jonas on January 31, 2009
http://www.jonas-kyratzes.net/2009/01/31/bars-of-black-and-white/
The Incredible Arghness
Recently another abyss of human behaviour has opened up in front of us, and it’s not pleasant to look at. I have only vaguely hinted at some problems we had about a year ago with certain people (which included the joyous event of someone putting a rootkit on my old computer and us getting the [...]
Posted by Jonas on January 31, 2009
http://www.jonas-kyratzes.net/2009/01/31/arghness/
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss…
From: Obama’s program of war Gates told the senators: “There is little doubt that our greatest military challenge right now is Afghanistan. As you know, the United States has focused more on Central Asia in recent months. President Obama has made it clear that the Afghanistan theatre should be our top overseas military priority.” The [...]
Posted by Jonas on January 29, 2009
http://www.jonas-kyratzes.net/2009/01/29/meet-the-new-boss-same-as-the-old-boss/
More choices
I just noticed a user review of Desert Bridge in TIGdb, and felt I needed to remark on a couple of points it makes. I hope my posts about reviews don’t feel like I’m constantly being defensive; I’m mainly writing this to illuminate game design choices I made, in the interest of furthering discussion/thought on [...]
Posted by Jonas on January 28, 2009
http://www.jonas-kyratzes.net/2009/01/28/more-choices/
More editing
Yesterday we spent about an hour and a half editing one paragraph. One. Paragraph. Still, it’s absolutely worth it, and it’s bound to get quicker as we get to the parts with less exposition and more action. And I have to say, editing is a fascinating process. You can really take a whole paragraph apart [...]
Posted by Jonas on January 28, 2009
http://www.jonas-kyratzes.net/2009/01/28/more-editing/
Oooof
Spent more than three hours editing the prologue to Verena’s novel. It was good work; we made the text clearer, removed things which didn’t work, and added several things which do. It still needs a bit more work to fill it out, but we’ve taken it from a rough draft to a funny narrative that [...]
Posted by Jonas on January 25, 2009
http://www.jonas-kyratzes.net/2009/01/25/oooof/
Froghead Is Real.
This is the Official Froghead Video. Those of you who have played The Strange and Somewhat Sinister Tale of the House at Desert Bridge already know the song, of course, but this deserves to be the most famous video on the internet, ever. Seriously. Lyrics: My name is Froghead and I live in a hole [...]
Posted by Jonas on January 22, 2009
http://www.jonas-kyratzes.net/2009/01/22/froghead-is-real/
Change? Sorry, we’re all out.
It’s depressing to see so many people going wild over Obama. It’s nice, of course, to see that what people are expecting of him is all very progressive and left-wing (he was voted as the anti-war, anti-everything-Bush-stands-for candidate, after all, and mostly that’s left-wing sentiment, even if people don’t want to say it)… but the [...]
Posted by Jonas on January 22, 2009
http://www.jonas-kyratzes.net/2009/01/22/change-2/
Jumper
A very short review, as they tend to be. So, Jumper. It had a trailer that looked somewhere between interesting and silly. As it turns out, it’s more on the interesting side than on the silly. Actually, most of it is pretty good – there just isn’t enough of it. The idea of people with [...]
Posted by Jonas on January 22, 2009
http://www.jonas-kyratzes.net/2009/01/22/jumper/
Museum Update, and a possible goodbye
Since someone asked – yes, I am still going to do that update for Museum that will get it to run on Vista. Soon. I haven’t had much time lately, and what little time I’ve had I’ve spent working on my film and my novel. And I must say that, quite frankly, I am seriously [...]
Posted by Jonas on January 19, 2009
http://www.jonas-kyratzes.net/2009/01/19/museum-update-and-a-possible-goodbye/
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