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[Archive for September, 2009]

Machinima variety shows

Posted by Michael

For whatever reason, The Muppet Show DVDs only made it recently into our collection. Ever since we are working our way through 70s puppet bliss. In somewhat of a continuation of the limitations of the game engine this post will ask whether Machinima would ever be up for something like a Muppet Show program.

No doubt, [...]

Demoscene eBook

Posted by Michael

Lassi Tasajaervi visited Georgia Tech when the print version of his book Demoscene: The Art of Real-Time came out. So I was lucky enough to get a copy but I am not sure how far the word about his book spread. Good news: now it is available as eBook.

The book is a short collection of [...]

Moviestorm future glimpses

Posted by Michael

I had the chance to visit the MovieStorm folks (twice this summer, actually). Last week I bumped into them during their demo show for the HCI 2009 showcase in Cambridge. I talked them into demoing the not-yet-released next build of MovieStorm… The interface has been reworked overall but maybe the most important coding change I [...]