Digital Ether

Been a gamer from the 1980s I have a nostalgic love of the classic games such as D&D.  Tripod’s website have combined this with their quirky music for a killer combination that expresses what Tripod’s about. Also check out April77, who designed Tripod’s site.

For those of you interested in developing games for the iPhone, look at the classic games on old computing platforms.

http://toucharcade.com/2009/09/05/c64-emulator-approved-by-apple-and-now-available/

Art Design in Computer Games creates the entire feel of the game experience for the player, so as you can understand it is a critical part of the game.

Another thing that is common these days is to mash together or combine differing genres of games.

For example: Steampunk, which combines high technology with a Victorian aesthetics and appears to become a sub-genre in it’s own right.  And Western style.

A cool way of changing the look of your computer.

http://www.gelaskins.com/

For those of you who love the Xbox, are looking for a new car and have a lot of spare cash then look not further… For behold the Suzuki SXBox Xbox 360 Concept Car!

I’ve recently been told about some excellent website for Science.

The Periodic Table of Videos from Nottingham University, which covers each element from the periodic table in a 4 – 8 minute video.  Good stuff with some explosions.

Sixty Symbols by Nottingham University’s Physics Department, which has a similar format to the above but focusing on physic.

Also see Test Tube, another UK initiative about science.

Now there appears to be a convergence of computing operating systems, software, and networking, as Google continues to spread into other areas of IT traditional controlled by other companies like Microsoft (ie Google Docs vs MS Office) and Adobe (Illustrator vs Google Sketch-up)

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/

The main difficulty I see with this is the delay that the network Lag (or Latency) would create, thereby making the system more time-consuming to use.

The Flight Comics‘ a hard one because it’s not a single artist, but a collection of good art and stories.