Blogged By Björn

Just Start Making Stuff

Gary Penn, talking about games in The Guardian:

“It’s about trying to get results as soon as you possibly can, using things like repertoire – as in, the known, the familiar, the practiced, the repeatable. Things like middleware would fall into that category. Use any tools you’ve used before, any code you’ve used before, any frameworks you’ve used before; because getting the results is the most important thing. You’ve got to get shit happening – you can talk about it, you can write it down, it means nothing until you actually make it and think f**k that’s nothing like what I thought it was going to be! That happens most of the time.”

Via Ben Kraal.

AO Universe Interview

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AO Universe interviews OJ Kielland on his role at Funcom as well as the origin of his dev name. I find it both amusing and embarrassing that I was responsible for Flaptoot, which he explains in question five.

Pax Britannica

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A highly innovative real time strategy game designed for, but not excepted into Gamma IV. As stipulated by the rules of the competition, the control scheme is limited to one button.

Love in Open Beta

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From Thursday the 7th, Eskil Steenberg’s experimental MMO, will be made available in open beta.

Aliens vs. Predator Banned in Australia.

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Yet another video game thwarted by the Australians failing to implement an Adult Only rating. I am not particularly devastated in regards to this particular title, however, it once again reveals that the censorship board doesn’t recognise video games as an adult medium.

Incidentally, I am reminded of this.