links for 2010-02-12

A styl­is­ti­cal­ly inter­est­ing ani­mat­ed short. I like the twist half way through but the end­ing left me a bit unsatisfied.

James Wal­lis on what makes a game a game, in the hopes of offer­ing a crit­i­cal tool. Ticks all the box­es, great writ­ing along the way.

Well, the cat’s out of the bag it seems. Fel­low Dutch Game Gar­den Xform are work­ing on an AR game for a line of Adi­das shoes. I’ve played ear­ly demos and am par­tic­u­lar­ly impressed with the graph­ic pol­ish of the whole thing.

This gives a whole new mean­ing to the term repho­tog­ra­phy. Both expert­ly exe­cut­ed and sen­si­tive to the social codes of Flickr. I want to play with this live.

“Hoe meer per­soon­s­gegevens je opslaat, hoe grot­er het risi­co ze mis­bruikt wor­den of op straat terechtkomen. Dat gaat gebeuren.” Dat, en het sim­pele feit dat er bit­ter weinig bewi­js is voor toegenomen vei­ligheid door sur­veil­lance is genoeg reden om weer­stand te bli­jven bieden. Via Alper.