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January 11, 2012
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Backlog Update 6

Time for another backlog update. I finished another 4 games. With one game (Penumbra: Requiem) carrying over from the last update, this completes yet another quintuple.

Torchlight Apparently the only game that I was planning to play trough in the last update. I enjoyed it a quite a bit. It filled a sudden craving I had for [...]

January 10, 2012
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Monster Hunter Podcast Episode 60

This time on the Monster Hunter Podcast: A Christmas Miracle. It’s part deux of the crew searching for the elusive christmas spirit and their monster fighting mojo.

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January 9, 2012
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The Decks of Magic: The Duels of the Planeswalkers

Recently, I found this post among the old drafts of my blog. I was trying to write a longer post on the decks of Magic: The Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers back when I was first playing it. Coincidentally, I recently returned to the game to play the DLC. Even though the post is not complete, [...]

January 8, 2012
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TRAUMA GOTY

I thought I use this opportunity to boast a little about the Game of the Year nominations TRAUMA received. I don’t think the major gaming sites said anything. But some indie websites included TRAUMA in their picks.

indievault.it – Alex Camilleri from indievault.it picked TRAUMA for his Indie Game of the Year.

theindieshelter.com – And while we are in italy, theindieshelter.com also seems [...]

January 6, 2012
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The Phylogeny Of Play

Some time ago I reported about none other than Chris Crawford visiting Cologne Game Lab in person. We have just recently uploaded a video of one of his highly entertaining lectures. This is something you may want to check out!

Too bad you missed it, huh? But wait, there is more! The reason why we uploaded it [...]

January 3, 2012
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Monster Hunter Podcast Episode 59

This time on the Monster Hunter Podcast: A Christmas Miracle. It’s part one of the crew searching for the elusive christmas spirit and their monster fighting mojo.

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December 30, 2011
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scnclrBleep: Video for Alessandro Crimi – Alaska (Granlab Remix)

Video for the scnclrBleep-series: visuals for Creative Commons music on YouTube. It’s for the track Alaska from Alessandro Crimi in the Granlab remix. Instant bliss and relaxing pleasure!

The music is available on the Broque netlabel.

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scnclrBleep: Video for Hakan Lidbo – Foglossning (Tim Susa remix)

Another video for the scnclrBleep-series: visuals for Creative Commons music on YouTube. It’s for the track Foglossning from Hakan Lidbo in the Tim Susa remix. The music is available on the Broque netlabel.

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December 24, 2011
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Monster Hunter Podcast Episode 58

This time on the Monster Hunter Podcast: Coffee Based Superpowers. Naxhxela finally spills the beans on how to obtain superpowers and remove coffee stains. Also, Monster Hunter!

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December 17, 2011
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1981-86: CGI und Retrofuturismus

Hier eine von mir erstellte YouTube-Playlist, die 35 Minuten feinste CGI aus den frühen Achtzigern zeigt. Ausschließlich zeitgenössisches Material aus TV-Sendungen, Videospielen und Tech-Demos. 13 Videos, 35 Minuten Laufzeit, USA, Japan, Deutschland, Wireframes, glatte Oberflächen und ruckelnde Tron-Optik. Viel Spaß!

Link zur Playlist: 1980s Computing and CGI

December 14, 2011
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Monster Hunter Podcast Episode 57

This time on the Monster Hunter Podcast: Back from the Drift Dimension. We’re always drifting all the time. Once our e-brakes are worn out we should be a little more regular. Until then….EEEEEEEEE!

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December 12, 2011
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TUIO-Client Plugin for Quartz Composer: Lion 64-bit compile

Tonight I made a 64-bit compile of the TUIO-Client Plugin for Quartz Composer. I messed around with the Kinect-Plugin for Quartz Composer and discovered the TUIO-multitouch and gesture protocol, which looks really promising. The protocol support really a lot of common creative coding software.

The binary of the TUIO-Client Plugin for Quartz Composer I downloaded from the TUIO-site did not launch in my Quartz Composer on OS-X Lion. The problem actually seems, that it was compiled for an older version of Mac OSX and Quartz had problems in actually loading and/or finding the path.

Now I freshly compiled the source for 64-bit Mac OS-X machines and put it into the “right” plugin directory for Quartz Composer on Lion. This is the path where you will put the “TuioClient.plugin“-file.

/Library/Graphics/Quartz Composer Plug-Ins.

And here is the binary:

Download TuioClient-Lion-64bit

December 11, 2011
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Squeezing the Plastic Lemon

Here is a recent Trailer for an upcoming Transformers game that left in in tears… from laughing.

So what I think happened here is that Black Moon Studios tried to pull an effect like in the infamous Gears of War Mad World Trailer. Back then, the trailer surprised by putting very slow, emotional, famous music with poignant [...]

December 7, 2011
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Solaris and Fermi Paradox

Recently I read this interesting article by Sci-Fi author Karl Schroeder. He is talking about a possible solution to the Fermi Paradox. This perhaps needs some explanation before I continue.

Is is the Wow Signal like someone sneezing before the big cosmic surprise party?

The Fermi Paradox is one of the great mysteries of the universe right now. It’s [...]