My archive of video-game related odds & ends from around the web
30 Jun 09

Lego recreations (of sorts) of some classic arcade games.

Damn nice bit of work by MlCHAELHlCKOX in doing all of this :)

(via Offworld)

23 Jun 09
Arcade Game Exposure Shots → A series of photographs taken playing several early 80’s arcade games with a long exposure time. The resulting photographs are quite trippy in some regard…
29 May 09
iPhone Doom Classic Development Notes →

A few notes from John Carmack about the progress (as well as some of the technical hurdles) on bringing Doom over to the iPhone platform.

Quite interesting from a development perspective in terms of what’s needed in translating a game over (technical as well as design hurdles).
22 May 09
An awesome vector version of the loading screen to the C64 version of Arkanoid. One of many which the guys over at the Daily Rodent have been putting up recently (most of them are from C64 games, with the occasional one or two from the Spectrum versions instead). The full set can be viewed from the following posts: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 (via The2Bears)

An awesome vector version of the loading screen to the C64 version of Arkanoid.

One of many which the guys over at the Daily Rodent have been putting up recently (most of them are from C64 games, with the occasional one or two from the Spectrum versions instead).

The full set can be viewed from the following posts: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6

(via The2Bears)


10 May 09
The Duke Nukem Forever List →

In light of the recent closure of 3D Realms - it’s worth taking some solace in this monumental list of things which occured during the 13 year development window of Duke Nukem Forever.

Certainly an astonishing amount of things took less time.
08 May 09
Poor old Pac-Man. I guess it really does show that drugs aren’t the answer :) (via @griffmiester)

Poor old Pac-Man. I guess it really does show that drugs aren’t the answer :)

(via @griffmiester)


08 May 09
tinycartridge: Papercraft sword from The Legend of Zelda. There’s something incredibly novel and appealing about a tangible version of a low-res object like this. It would take a lot of very thick paper, but just imagine making a life-size, blocky sword. Here’s the corresponding boomerang: Sweet. Just the thing for a more pixellated existance!

tinycartridge:

Papercraft sword from The Legend of Zelda. There’s something incredibly novel and appealing about a tangible version of a low-res object like this. It would take a lot of very thick paper, but just imagine making a life-size, blocky sword.

Here’s the corresponding boomerang:

Sweet. Just the thing for a more pixellated existance!


28 Apr 09
Footage from a rather snazzy 3D remake of the old arcade game Lunar Lander. There’s a bunch of cool notes about its development here, and you play it for yourself here.
15 Apr 09
Privateer: ASCII Sector → Taking it’s inspiration from the classic Privateer, ASCII sector expands the scope, whilst downgrading it’s graphical component to 16 colour text.
01 Apr 09
Darwinia+ Docs →

As a fan of independent gaming, I’m a big fan of the work the Introversion guys put out. Whilst they’ve put out companion discs for earlier titles, this is the first time that anyone has ever been able to put out development documentation from a top-tier console title (in this case being the XBLA version of Darwinia+Multiwinia).

They’ve released a bunch of documentation - from snippets of source code, Emails about the project, Project plans.

A lot of interesting material for anyone interested in what goes on in the back-scenes of games development…

(via Offworld)