Electric Dragon 80,000 Volts
Electric Dragon 80,000 Volts: Filled with Electricity! Filled with Emotion! Conversing with dragons and creatures, is a man! Dragon Eye Morrison!” (Thanks, Colin!)
Everybody Dies, Jim Munroe Style
Don’t bother guessing the verb, just click here to play Former Games Editor Jim Munroe’s Everybody Dies which just took 3rd place at the 2008 Interactive Fiction Competition. You can also learn more about the process of writing interactive fiction and see Michael Cho’s sweet illustrations.
First Second’s Prince of Persia
Jog writes a meditation about time, movement and water in Prince of Persia, the game and graphic novel. It’s nice. You might like it.
Watch the Skies!
The Telegraph watches the skies with 140 years of UFO photographs.
LOLthots
oh, hai! Jay Dixit ponders the humanity in lolcats (and talks to The New Yorker’s cartoons editor about them): “By articulating profound feelings through cats and marine mammals speaking garbled English, we’re able to shroud genuine emotions in pseudo-irony — which means those animals can evoke deeper emotions […]
Narrative and Interactivity
The Artful Gamer ponders interactivity, engagement and narrative in videogames: “Instead of beating our collective heads against the wall as we try to design games that let players live out their wildest desires, we should be developing worlds that encourage players to explore them as living, breathing, places.”
The Cultural Gutter 