links for 2007-07-24

The Tar­quin Engine is a tool for the cre­ation and deliv­ery of zoom­ing infi­nite can­vas web­comics. Might come in handy when deliv­er­ing con­cep­tu­al comics.

Awe­some lit­tle indie game: “Kumoon is a hybrid of a third per­son shoot­er and a puz­zle game. Play­er con­trols a chick that tries to knock down box­es in var­i­ous rooms by shoot­ing them with a revolver, shot­gun or a bazooka.”

Inter­est­ing thoughts on the val­ue of sketch­ing in the design process. I liked the com­par­i­son of sketch­es to pro­to­types most.

A thor­ough analy­sis of the prob­lems Face­book ran into when intro­duc­ing a new fea­ture a while ago. It seems they still haven’t learnt though, ’cause I read some­thing on a new user revolt recently.

Nice lit­tle inter­view giv­ing some insights on how Cheng uses comics at Yahoo! Includes some use­ful links to resources for comics creators.

Inter­est­ing pre­sen­ta­tion from Nova on the direc­tions mobile enter­tain­ment is headed.

Shirky’s thought­ful reply to the much derid­ed book Cult of the Amateur.