Links for 2007-09-05

In Links on 5 September 2007 with 1 comment

• Dopplr Blog » Dopplr Receives Funding from Premier International Team: Varsavsky, Ito, Hoffman and Klein invest in online social-travel service
  “Dopplr is like the iPod of social networks.” – Now that’s a great sound-bite. Congrats to the Dopplr team for getting funded.
  (tags: Dopplr travel social socialnetworking socialsoftware funding)
• Wonderland: Habbowood
  Habbo has paid close attention to machinima I guess. They have a tool with which you can make your own movies in game and are now running a contest.
  (tags: machinima Habbo virtualworlds MMOGs multiplayer massive movies play games)
• Jamie Wieck / Portfolio / (Don’t) Play With Your Food
  I love these cute playful plates that encourage adults and children alike to have some fun with their food. Via Pixelsumo.
  (tags: JamieWieck play plates food eating design via:pixelsumo)
• iteration games – main GAMES page
  These abstract shooters make me want to own a PC again. Can’t wait to get my MacBook and try these.
  (tags: shooters games abstract PC play)
• Official Google Reader Blog: Doing the Shuffle
  Have been using Reader for quite a while but somehow never found this great little bookmarklet that lets you skip through new items in their original form right in your browser. Have set this to command-1 in Camino and am loving it. Via James.
  (tags: via:jamesbox bookmarklets GoogleReader RSS feeds)
• twitter blocks 3D visualization – data visualization & visual design – information aesthetics
  There’s a lot of discussion going on about Twitter Blocks. I don’t think interfaces have to be functionalist and utilitarian. Having a playful way of exploring data like Twitter’s (which is quite frivolous in and of itself) makes sense to me.
  (tags: Twitter TwitterBlocks visualizations data interfaces play discussions StamenDesign)
• GameSetWatch – Warren Spector’s Seven Game Pitch Questions
  “There are some things we’re just not good at and shouldn’t even attempt. A love story, for example!” GSW blogs Warren Spector’s questions to judge a game idea. Good stuff, but surprising he dismisses a whole genre as a bad idea!
  (tags: games gaming gamedesign play questions lists WarrenSpector ideas)
• Ernest W. Adams – The No Twinkie Database!
  All the Bad Game Designer – No Twinkie! columns by Ernest W. Adams in one place, indexed on topic. Great resource for anti-patterns in game design.
  (tags: gamedesign gaming play games patterns twinkie mistakes practices)
• Karma – Casual Gameplay Design Competition #3
  Interesting little casual Flash game that uses the concept of karma as its inspiration. Deceptively tricky to complete.
  (tags: games casual karma Flash)

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