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My Obsession with Chess
- ethank 15y agoIf anyone hasn't read Understanding Comics, it's a fantastic book. http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Comics-Invisible-Scott-Mccloud/dp/006097625X http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Comics-Invisible-Scott-M... And for the HN set, it is actually really good for UX inspiration.
- mushishi 15y agoAlso his book "Making comics" is useful to understand visual story making; I am actually half-way through reading it.
- mambodog 15y agoIf you're doing any sort of visual storytelling, especially animation or games, you owe it to yourself to read this book.
- ethank 15y agoI'd argue that any UX is visual storytelling.
- hasslblad 15y agoIt's worth noting Scott McCloud also did the Google Chrome comic - http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/ http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/
- baby 15y agowow, had this book for years but never took the time to read it. After reading that chess comic I really want to now.
- hsmyers 15y ago<nit>All my copies of 'My System', say Aron Nimzowitsch</nit> Great obsession though, pretty easy to relate to as well. Glad he found comics...
- softbuilder 15y agoThank you, I was about to look for the book and this saved some confusion. Not sure why you were DV'd.
- zacharycohn 15y agoLove the ending.
- MaxGabriel 15y agoI had a very similar experience as the author did in the ending when playing World 4 of Braid. For several hours I felt like walking back in the direction I came from would cause time to move back as well.
- adnam 15y agoBoring teen angst.
- zheng 15y agoThis probably won't matter to you, but the entire point is that it's not about the angst.
- rottencupcakes 15y agoWhat does this comic gain from the strange layout of otherwise regular squares? I got frustrated of trying to figure out where the next square was as I scrolled down.
- thinker 15y agoI've read Scout McCloud's series about comic books and I can understand why he did this - he's fascinated in how to challenge the status quo and existing norms in comics. Besides the obvious parallel to chess moves that is. He's kind of a in a position to do it too, given he's already accomplished a lot in the comic world.
- fragsworth 15y agoThey are like squares on a chess board. They even match the colors correctly when moving diagonally or vertically/horizontally. I liked this little detail. I also wouldn't be surprised if there's some hidden meaning to some of the movements.
- Raphael 15y agoIt would be so much better if it lined up with the tile background.
- minikomi 15y agohttp://www.scottmccloud.com/1-webcomics/chess/index.html http://www.scottmccloud.com/1-webcomics/chess/index.html I don't know about chess but it seems to follow some kind of pattern when zoomed out.. Is it a famous game or set of moves?
- bootload 15y ago"... What does this comic gain from the strange layout of otherwise regular squares? ..." Scott McCloud wrote a whole book explaining why, "Reinventing Comics: How Imagination and Technology Are Revolutionizing an Art Form" ~ http://www.amazon.com/Reinventing-Comics-Imagination-Technology-Revolutionizing/dp/0060953500 http://www.amazon.com/Reinventing-Comics-Imagination-Technol... a quick summary: he's trying to redefine & elevate comics from being mere cartoon strips in newspapers or the plastic covered, pulp superhero "comix" you find in dingy comic book stores to a higher art-form through new technology & imagination ~ http://www.scottmccloud.com/2-print/2-rc/index.html http://www.scottmccloud.com/2-print/2-rc/index.html
- jshort 15y agohttp://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bobby_fischer_against_the_world/trailers/ http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bobby_fischer_against_the_wo... Haven't seen it yet but plan too! Looks like a pretty good chess related film.
- gnosis 15y agoThe best chess-themed movie I've ever seen is "Black and White Like Day and Night": http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078211/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078211/ It's fiction, but loosely based on Bobby Fischer.
- dimatura 15y agoThe first chess-related work of fiction that comes to mind is "The defense", by Nabokov. The main character is similarly obsessed with chess and comes to see everything in terms of chess. There's a movie adaptation called "The Luzhin defense", with John Turturro and Emily Watson, which I thought was OK.
- sethbannon 15y agoWonderfully captures the obsession many of us chess players have shared with the game.
- fmota 15y agoSleep paralysis is terrifying.
- eru 15y agoIt's only terrifying if you let it terrify you. I get it on a regular basis, and don't mind.
- johnnyjustice 15y agoYeah, it takes some concerted effort to realize its happenning and to relax back into sleep.
- mambodog 15y agoAbout this comic: My Obsession with Chess 1998-1999 My fourth online comic seemed to strike a chord with many readers, despite requiring side-scrolling as well as down-scrolling (which I'll admit, can be pretty annoying). This one's autobiographical; an account of a childhood obsession with "the most violent game" and how that obsession returned in my late twenties. It's all true, but pretty weird, 'cause I was, um... a weird kid. I visited the legendary Xerox PARC shortly after completing the comic and they offered to print it for me on their humungous format printer. In 2008, the print-out was exhibited at New York's Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art and Bowling Green University as an artifact of webcomics history. Anything more than ten years old is like the dead sea scrolls in webcomics. From http://www.scottmccloud.com/1-webcomics/chess/index.html http://www.scottmccloud.com/1-webcomics/chess/index.html
- erikb 15y agoHow can u post that link again? Is HN not blocking old links?