Stolen Pixels #52: Guide to Building Cities in “Persia”
By Once again I strive to meet the insatiable public demand for videogame jokes, architectural engineering analysis, and poetry.
(I was going to do a Dramatic Reading of the poem, as with Boris Karloff in the original How the Grinch Stole Christmas, but then I decided to play Mass Effect instead.)
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Alan Wake
This game was a critical darling before release, so what happened that prevented it from resonating with audiences?
Pixel City Dev Blog
An attempt to make a good looking cityscape with nothing but simple tricks and a few rectangles of light.
A Star is Born
Remember the superhero MMO from 2009? Neither does anyone else. It was dumb. So dumb I was compelled to write this.
Starcraft: Bot Fight
Let's do some scripting to make the Starcraft AI fight itself, and see how smart it is. Or isn't.
The Terrible New Thing
Fidget spinners are ruining education! We need to... oh, never mind the fad is over. This is not the first time we've had a dumb moral panic.
Megatextures
A video discussing Megatexture technology. Why we needed it, what it was supposed to do, and why it maybe didn't totally work.
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