Okay, you can stop the giggling now. This is a lecture by Daniel Floyd (Savannah College of Art & Design) on the subject of sex in videogames, and why it is a necessary step to accept intimacy in videogames in much the same way we accept it in movies: a …
Today I read about Erik Nordenankar, who did a pretty cool thing: he developed a GPS transmitter with elongated battery life, put it in a shock-proof closed case, printed out very detailed instructions (places and coordinates) and handed the lot to the world-wide delivery company DHL. By using the acquired …
Since I moved my audio mixer to my student room in Leuven, mixing attempts have become more frequent. I’m not a professional DJ, I just like to recycle the tunes I love in a new way. Recording and after-editing was done using Audacity. Any help at identifying that unknown Tiga …
Thanks to fellow blogger Pelle at Blikkendoos.be, I will never forget that the 25th of may is from now on Towel Day. In order to celebrate the festivities, I went for a Vogon-green one. Don’t hesitate to post your pictures of Towel Day madness, but make sure to cut off …
And then, on one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting in a small café in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been …
I will go to hell for this. Especially for the over-use of the vocoder / beatslicer. Whoops ! Most of the effects were done in Audacity with the help of the ZynAddSubFX software synthesizer. Both are freely available open-source products. Elements you might recognize: (vocals / synth) Moby – Lift …
Steamworks went live today. I’ve requested my API key, have you ? On a lighter note, here are some interesting articles I’ve stumbled upon during the last few weeks. Cracked compiled a list of 7 commandments all video games should obey. (#3 is my favorite). Another – more serious – …
If there’s one thing that can drive traditional music lovers crazy, it’s mashups. Take the vocals from song A, the bass-line from song B and that funky synth sound from track C, and put them together so it sounds like something new. Blasphemy, you say ? I don’t think so. …
There’s a small interview up on the independent gaming industry blog Pariah’s Guild about the project I’m working on, Nuclear Dawn. It’s an interesting read, although my lack of English vocabulary makes me sound like a five year old from time to time.The blog itself has a bit of an …
Every six months, it’s that time again … upgrading to the newest Ubuntu release. I don’t know which department is in charge of the release branding, but with the label for release 8.04 (The year 2008, fourth month) they have outdone themselves: Hardy Heron. I really hope Mark Shuttleworth opens …