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February 17, 2011
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Exploring the Temple

Ok, there is a bit more to the comet story from yesterday. The Planetary Society blog posted some fascinating early analysis of the data. First of all, it turns out that the comet is actually active! There are 4 streams of vapor coming out of the comet. They are difficult to see with the naked [...]

February 16, 2011
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Don’t Call Me Shirley

Space Geekout Time! A probe flew past a frigging comet and snapped a few pix. 7km x 5km of dirty ice. That’s what I call an iceberg! The probe in question is called Stardust and it was launched 12 years ago. It had the mission to collect dust from another comet. It succeeded and with it’s mission over, it [...]


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Embracing Manual

We got a new coffee machine. It’s a very different coffee machine from our old one. It is simpler so it requires more work to prepare the coffee now. But it is beginning to grow on me. Say hello to my new coffee machine. Or as I like to call it: life-support system. I think I may need to [...]

February 14, 2011
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Full(screen) TRAUMA

At this rate, it’s almost a wonder when I actually manage to get something done for TRAUMA. But there is some progress after all and I will eventually get there. First of all, I was able to apply some spelling / wording suggestions from Julia Zaadstra (a friend of mine) and Igor Hardy. The quality [...]

February 13, 2011
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Monster Hunter Podcast Episode 26

On the this episode of the Monster Hunter Podcast: I Will Remember This Day Forever. It’s valentine’s day. We express our love by hunting dual Globuls, Agnactors and do a challenge suggested by our listeners. Get the mp3 of the episode here. The RSS Feed is here. Get us in iTunes here. The Tumblr Blog here. Enjoy!


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Monster Hunter Podcast Episode 26

On the this episode of the Monster Hunter Podcast: I Will Remember This Day Forever. It’s valentine’s day. We express our love by hunting dual Globuls, Agnactors and do a challenge suggested by our listeners. Get the mp3 of the episode here. The RSS Feed is here. Get us in iTunes here. The Tumblr Blog here. Enjoy!


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Global Game Jam Cologne on TV

Here are two videos recorded on our Global Game Jam event two weeks ago. The first one was actually recorded and edited by my colleague Katharina Tillmans from Cologne Game Lab. I think she did a marvelous job. The second one was recorded by a real TV crew that followed us during the 48 hours. The feature [...]


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Global Game Jam Cologne on TV

Here are two videos recorded on our Global Game Jam event two weeks ago. The first one was actually recorded and edited by my colleague Katharina Tillmans from Cologne Game Lab. I think she did a marvelous job. The second one was recorded by a real TV crew that followed us during the 48 hours. The feature [...]

February 11, 2011
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FROG Videos

Last year I made a short presentation on TRAUMA at the FROG conference in Vienna. I recently realized that there are actually videos of the conference online. They are a little hidden but you can pretty much watch the entire conference here. Click here to watch videos of the presentations. Besides my talk, I strongly recommend checking out the [...]

February 10, 2011
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The End of Us

The cool thing about Global Game Jam is also discovering the entries from other locations and finding some real gems there. A fellow designer Chelsea Howe made this little game together with Michael Molinari. Click here to play! The game is about two cute asteroids flying together in space and playing around. It is a quite ingenious twist on [...]

February 9, 2011
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Field Recordings from the Edge of Hell

Here is something amazing I picked up from the blog of Warren Ellis. It’s an album called Field Recordings from the Edge of Hell. It is 8 hours long. Each track is around 25 minutes long. It consist only of Drone music. And you know what? Why the hell not? If we are to go digital distribution, [...]

February 8, 2011
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Micro for Noobs: The Concave

Welcome back to another edition of Micro for Noobs where we I learn to win StarCraft 2 battles with zero actions per minute. In the last episode we were talking about some general battle dynamics and how units get more efficient in large quantities. Today we are going to go into specifics of ranged units. [...]

February 7, 2011
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Monster Hunter Podcast Episode 25

On the this episode of the Monster Hunter Podcast: Water Jho. We get ahead of ourselves and attempt a Devil Jho capture quest with questionable results. Get the mp3 of the episode here. The RSS Feed is here. Get us in iTunes here. The Tumblr Blog here. Enjoy!


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Monster Hunter Podcast Episode 25

On the this episode of the Monster Hunter Podcast: Water Jho. We get ahead of ourselves and attempt a Devil Jho capture quest with questionable results. Get the mp3 of the episode here. The RSS Feed is here. Get us in iTunes here. The Tumblr Blog here. Enjoy!