Thanks for these links people, any more would be reallly appreciated.
wierdly (though not too wierd, since I also teach game design theory) my
course reading list and yours (evan) are almost identical! (Not that the
students ever read anything of course, to busy trying to make GTA in
flash or something). Still a few nice papers etc I hadn't seen before so
thanks, maybe we should hook up some time for a games boffin chat or
something..
Thanks alex, im waiting to get into aaaaa etc and ive got about halfway
through your citation list, aargh too much interesteing stuff that i am
sure im not supposed to sidetrack myself into! Found a few thins that
could be really useful too.
Kassen, thanks for your mail, to be honest even though I've never got
into 2d fighters myself I am a huge shmups fanatic and they 2 genres
share a lot in terms of their hardcore community, obscure terminology
and strategic forms. Im planning to investigate some of these
subcultures in more detail so I might get back to you for even more
obscure stuff later if thats ok..
You reminded me to post a link to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEkS199jTuA
This is a guy playing both players in ikaruga on a handmade split
controller. Ikaruga has one of the most simple yet deep gameplay/scoring
mechanics. Its hard for people to understand the level of skill on
display, but showing his hands in the vid is a really nice element that
re-introduces the visual elements of performative virtuosity etc
Anyway, please keep posting anything you think might help!
Tom Betts
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www.odessadesign.co.uk
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On 20/01/2010 10:14, alex wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
> I don't really have much in the way of recommendations. I've been
> trying to put my reading on citeulike (
> http://www.citeulike.org/user/yaxu ), I don't know if there's much of
> interest there.
>
> These days a lot of e-books are shared around, on sites like
> http://burundi.sk/monoskop/log/ , http://bibliotik.org/ and
> http://a.aaaarg.org/ . As the son of a independent bookshop keeper I
> don't know how I feel about all this but I understand it can make it a
> lot easier to browse around subjects before focusing on something in a
> proper library.
>
> Take care,
>
> alex
>
> 2010/1/20 tom_at_nullpointer.co.uk<tom_at_nullpointer.co.uk>:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I know Im a king lurker here, but I was wondering if anyone had some reading
>> tips for me.
>>
>> Im just starting a Phd, looking at the performative grammar of gameplay
>> (rules, objectives, linguistic flow, etc). In my mind much about the act of
>> livecoding relates very closely to gameplay activity. With this in mind I
>> was hoping that some of you might be able to provide me with some links to
>> reading material that might be relevent to my research.
>>
>> Im at the stage where I can read pretty widely, so anything interesting
>> would be great, oh and podcasts/audio lectures etc are also great.
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>>
>> Tom Betts
>> ----------------------
>> www.nullpointer.co.uk
>> www.odessadesign.co.uk
>> ----------------------
>>
>> On 19/01/2010 15:04, Michele Pasin wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks to you all for taking part in the event! It's been a lot of fun
>>> and I'm already looking forward to the next one!
>>>
>>> Btw I put some links to the pictures on the event website:
>>> http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~mpasin/events/livecoding/#pictures
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>>
>>> mik
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Dave Griffiths<dave_at_pawfal.org
>>> <mailto:dave_at_pawfal.org>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Some pictures of the gig last night: http://bit.ly/5zERYV
>>>
>>> Thanks to Michele for organising this, it's a super space for
>>> livecoding!
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>>
>>> dave
>>>
>>> On Sat, 2010-01-09 at 16:12 +0000, alex wrote:
>>> > +++ LIVECODING AT THE ANATOMY MUSEUM +++
>>> >
>>> > Date: Thursday January 14th 2010, 7pm to 9pm circa.
>>> > Venue: The Anatomy Museum, King's College London
>>> > Website: http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~mpasin/events/livecoding/
>>> > Door tax: Free
>>> >
>>> > Code surgeons:
>>> > - Andrew Brown
>>> > http://www.explodingart.com/arb/
>>> > - Evan + Jag (Cane toads)
>>> > - Thor Magnusson
>>> > http://www.ixi-audio.net/
>>> > - Michele Pasin
>>> > - slub
>>> > http://slub.org/
>>> > - Wrongheaded (Yee King + Click Nilson)
>>> >
>>> > More info on this event:
>>> > http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~mpasin/events/livecoding/
>>> >
>>> > More on live coding in the UK:
>>> > http://toplap.org/uk/
>>> > http://toplap.org/uk/about/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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