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by ja2ke 15y ago
I've also bought Minecraft, but I haven't bought this new, differently named title, "Minecraft Pocket Edition," so I'm not concerned or confused.
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by ja2ke 15y ago
Scaleform is great at enabling web- and interactive advertising-trained graphic designers to make video game UI art. It's not as great at being efficient, or truly integrated into your game.
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by ja2ke 15y ago
Gaming "toy user interfaces" like the one pictured lower in the article generally take so much code because, very often, art directed animation which drives those UIs is often actually assembled entirely in script. Comparing it to an early
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by ja2ke 15y ago
I hope they followed this up with a QR code which decodes to a treatise on the rise of infographics.
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The People I Want to Stop Running Into at (Videogame) Industry Conferences(kirbybits.wordpress.com)
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by ja2ke 15y ago
It's totally hindsight driven, but the fact that he started every HN comment with the same "Jonathan here" type canned greeting should have probably raised an eyebrow. (amending this: after reading up a bit I don't agree with my own origina
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by ja2ke 15y ago
I think most people moved away from it before they knew they had it, when their copy of Microsoft Works for Windows 3.1 opened up in a maximized window. Apple is heavily promoting use of gestures, multiple desktops, and other OS features to
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by ja2ke 15y ago
It'll be interesting to see what happens -- from a marketing and consumer communication/perception standpoint when Windows 8 is out on PCs, and the 360 gets its matching OS update as well. It won't be a perfect arrangement, but it'll be Mi
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by ja2ke 15y ago
Side question brought on by the headline: Is there such a thing as an "indirect descendant?" Seems like all descendants are direct.
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by ja2ke 15y ago
These guys are doing something similar and are demonstrating more dynamic lighting and destruction tech: http://www.atomontage.com
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by ja2ke 15y ago
Gold farmers: If you can't beat 'em... tax 'em, apparently.
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by ja2ke 15y ago
The Firefox address bar can be set jump straight to the "I'm feeling lucky" result instead of showing search results when it's confide t enough in the search. That behavior alone, which for some reason nobody else replicates as a feature of
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by ja2ke 15y ago
Haha true. I didn't think of it that way because my mind saw the homepage button and the search as you type button as "the same button" but yeah you're right. At this point (assuming you didn't disable scripts) the Google homepage needs not
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by ja2ke 15y ago
Side note: With results-as-you-type now being the default even from the Google front page, isn't "I'm feeling lucky" a totally vestigial button at this point?
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by ja2ke 15y ago
As long as it doesn't start resulting in people 'burning down the place' for the 'insurance' money.
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by ja2ke 15y ago
How much financially is a customer worth to Google? I know its a coarse metric, but in the "Twitter should have paid ad-free Pro accounts!" conversations, people always point out that if you look at Twitter's userbase versus its valuation,
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by ja2ke 15y ago
Would a "don't allow others to export my information" feature, maybe with some granularity, help with this? So if your friend dumped their info to leave, or sent it directly to another app or service, you wouldn't be included* since you opt
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by ja2ke 15y ago
Why would a clean, user focused "export my info" tool also be exposed to apps? I can't imagine a situation where those two features would be intrinsically tied. This is about an end-user-side button which dumps your friend network 'address
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by ja2ke 15y ago
In these arguments, its never concrete like that, because what people are fretting over is not actually about a particular metric, about revenue, etc. It's personal, and it's cultural. When someone says "casual games will take over console
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by ja2ke 15y ago
I guess if they're spherical they're consistantly difficult to hit, even if you play spinning animations on them. However, if they're discs, and they rotate on X or Y, their size as a target will fluctuate. I made that mockup with just aest
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by ja2ke 15y ago
I don't think the gritty/old timey look is bad, but I think you could push it further to sell it as such. I think you could go a long way by adding SOME saturation back into the world, and tinting things a bit sepia for an aged look. I'd st
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by ja2ke 15y ago
On his way to get milk, if your son stops along his way, a movie theater won't let him in to see an NC-17 rated film, and they won't let him see an R-rated film alone without your consent. A video game retailer won't sell him an AO-rated ga
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by ja2ke 15y ago
What does this have to do with legal regulation versus voluntary self-regulation?
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by ja2ke 15y ago
With iCloud Apple will potentially make money off the service because some customers will pay cash for extras (more space, more services, etc), but that's it. Apple is a weird company because for all the eyebrows they raise with talk of clo
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by ja2ke 15y ago
I love it. The slightly-too-intensely overlapping elements and colors are outrageous in a way that really appeals to me. TechCrunch gets accused of being a brash loud thing, and its fun to see them basically scream that to the mountaintops
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by ja2ke 15y ago
It doesn't take a brilliant mind to sell them, though, so in that respect it's a waste. You need brilliant people if you want to fan the flames of emotional need in your customers, pursue deliberate brand segmentation and diversification an
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by ja2ke 15y ago
Wii's hardware is nearly literally the GameCube's hardware with extra video memory, so odds are high that backwards compatibility would continue.
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by ja2ke 15y ago
Twitter has made their nut as the collective tissue of the social web. Sure the tweets are actual content, but they're always about something external -- twitter is most often used for seeing what people have to say and share about somethin
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by ja2ke 15y ago
Points are currently prioritized over replies, which doesn't make a lot of sense given that points are private and you're not displaying the contents of a threaded comment in the root article display page. Seems like those two things (point
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by ja2ke 15y ago
How that article got by without pitching naming the feature "Worms With Friends" is a mystery of the ages.

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