Weekly 5 – 3/1/13
Welcome all to another Weekly 5. We’re going to try something a little bit different this time. Every week I ask Game Lab staff members to send me links to interesting web content they would like to share. I aggregate those …
Friday Games: Karateka
What has changed over 28 years? This Friday, we’ll do a side-by-side comparison of Karateka, a game from Jordan Mechner (Prince of Persia, The Last Express). The original game (which we will play on an emulator) was developed for the …
Putting Pen to Paper (Part 2)
This is part 2 of Richard Gould’s blog post about the summer project The Last Symphony. Another requirement of the audio was that each object should have a unique sound that would playback when the item was collected. For those …
Weekly 5 – 2/22/13
Hey friends, welcome to Weekly 5 The Weekly Gear Rising: Weekengeance Edition! 1. Hacking A Bug Fix on Starcraft Here’s a great story from developer Patrick Wyatt about how the team hacked a solution together for a show-stopping path-finding bug during the …
Friday Games: Antichamber & Mark of the Ninja
It’s been more than a month since our last Friday Games! This will not stand. Actually, the lab has been going through a big renovation. Rik has been working tirelessly to get the TV and streaming computer mounted on the …
Weekly 5 2/15
Hey friends, welcome to another Weekly 5! You know, just some links hand curated as a gift from us to you! IndieCade East The east coast version of IndieCade is this weekend in New York City. Rumor has it, it is not …
Weekly 5 2/1/13
Hello everyone, and welcome to another Weekly 5! Here’s five links to stories and stuff that we think is pretty interesting. 1. Taking The “E” Out Of E-sports The folks over at Venture Beat have a cool story about the …
Weekly 5 1/25/13
Hello again everyone, and welcome to another Weekly 5, our top five links to interesting stuff around the interwebnets. 1. Objectify Dudes for Good Leigh Alexander and Ben Abraham have collaborated to start a new holiday on February 1st — Objectify …
Putting Pen to Paper (Part 1)
This post is a continuation of Richard Gould’s reflections on his work as a sound designer for The Last Symphony. So with a musical direction laid out and implementation planned, the writing began. My process began with an initial sketch …
Game Lab Weekly 5: 1/11/13
Welcome to another Weekly 5, the first of the new year! 1. Kotaku on Todd’s LoL Letter A little while ago our very own Tod Harper wrote an excellent open letter to Riot Games about the sexuality of one of the …