ALERT: ted me vlastne doslo, ze tam budou kluci s Pogamutem https://artemis.ms.mff.cuni.cz/pogamut/tiki-index.php

MAHISH: sem myslel tohle, preposilam ;)

TransGenesis 2008 - GLOBALNI HRACI

Dobry den,

dovolte mi, abych Vas pozval na treti rocnik festivalu TransGenesis
(2.-7.11.2008).

http://www.transgenesis.cz/

Po biotechnologiich v roce 2006, web 2.0 projektech a iniciative umelci v
laboratorich v roce 2007 se tentokrat festival zameruje na herni technologie
v umeni, kulture a spolecnosti. Kuratorem vystavy je Andrej Boleslavsky.

Vernisaz na Akademii ved (Narodni 3) probehne v pondeli 3. listopadu od
18.00.

TransGenesis je soucasti Tydne vedy a techniky, kazdorocni akce AV CR.

Za SCART,

Pavel Sedlak

MAHISH: jj Will je fakt super ;)

ALERT: hmm, to vypadá dost dobře, zejtra si to dám mezi hodinama, teď už na tu anglinu nemám sílu:P

co Will Wright na Pop!Casts?
http://www.poptech.org/popcasts/popcasts.aspx?lang=&viewcastid=33

ahoj, doufam ze nejsem uplne OT - prazska game-developerska firma hleda 3d vytvarniky a texturare. info posta

Feng Mengbo v rudolfinu (mimo jiné:)

Od malířských počátků v duchu politického popu přesunul Feng Mengbo (* 1966) už v polovině 90. let hlavní těžiště své tvorby k počítačově generovaným videosekvencím. Řada těchto prací, často kritizujících cynismus počítačových her a záměrně využívajících jejich formálních postupů, vyústila v nedávné době v návrat k obrazům. Jejich základem je počítačově konstruovaná obrazová struktura dotvářená v reálu klasickou malbou. Nejnovější série krajin je neobyčejně bohatě vrstvená zpráva o historii klasické čínské malířské disciplíny.

Další tajmlajna
http://www.pbs.org/kcts/videogamerevolution/history/timeline_flash.html

Gamer Theory
Author: McKenzie Wark
Publisher: Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007

REVIEW 1: Denisa Kera http://rccs.usfca.edu/bookinfo.asp?ReviewID=563&BookID=406
REVIEW 2: Shawn Miklaucic http://rccs.usfca.edu/bookinfo.asp?ReviewID=564&BookID=406

Superstruct
http://www.superstructgame.org/

Free Culture Game
http://www.molleindustria.org/freeculturegame-eng

Is Google Planning To Buy Valve?
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view
http://www.hrej.cz/novinky/2008/09/17/google-kupuje-valve/

More evidence that satire doesn't transmit over the interwebs
A game in which your "task" is to "wipe the Muslim race from the face of the Earth" has, predictably, got people wound up
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/gamesblog/2008/sep/11/blogpost1

MAHISH: dodej .))

MAHISH: jj, ta se hodí do života zvídavého člověka .)

KHALAVERA: po třech měsících mám před sebou už jen pár stránek, super kniha:)

Buying Spore, or just renting?

I admit I haven't yet picked up a copy of Spore (beginning of the school year and all) but I figured it was being released to universal acclaim, sales, yada yada. And of course all of the pre-release information hyped the game to no end, and fans seemed, well, fanatic, about getting their hands on the game. What a difference a day or two makes. Check out the review scores for Spore on Amazon's site. As of my writing this, there are 1840 1-star reviews of the game. Why?

Not the gameplay, it seems, but the DRM protection. A common complaint from reviewers-- 'you don't buy this game, you rent it!' You need to go online to authenticate the game (nothing new there) and the game allows you to authenticate three times before having to call and ask permission for more authentications from EA (disclaimer: I'm taking this from the reviews, so if the information is incorrect, please post and let me know). Seems very close to Apple's iTunes model of managing music, thus causing the user to carefully ponder just how/where/when to 'spend' those few copies.

While Spore isn't technically a virtual world (or is it?), this also brings back parallels for me of players' rights in virtual worlds. If we are encouraged to see these worlds as our new Commons, our coffeehouses, etc, do we have any say in how we use them? Will this outrage amount to anything for Wright's creation? For future games? And as we probably don't own that epic gear in MMOGs, so too, maybe we are only renting our single player games now as well?

http://terranova.blogs.com/