2009 Tecmo Bowl NFL Player Awards
If I didn’t know better I’d think this was written just to get me to link to it. Though it is obviously missing a Bo Jackson award for “most unstoppable motherfucker.”
Another World Ported to JavaScript
To go with the pure-JS NES and GameBoy emulators, here’s a port of the 1991 classic Another World in plain ‘ol JavaScript. Impressive. For now, it shares the same problem as the aforementioned emulators: No sound support.
The Worst Super Mario Player Ever
An experiment in beating the original Super Mario Bros. for the NES while getting the lowest possible score. This guy managed to do it while only getting 700 points. Just getting one power-up mushroom gives the player 1,000 points, so this is no mean feat.
Infinite Mario AI
Incredible demo video from one of the entrants in the Super Mario AI competition. mentioned previously on Extra Future. See also: The project page, which explains the process behind the AI.
The developer says he’ll release the source code once the contest is over.
Mario AI Competition 2009
Write a Mario Bros-playing AI in Java and win some money and nerd fame. I can see myself spending a lot of time with this.
via Jesper
Atlus Announces Shiren the Wanderer Wii for Spring 2010
This is very good news if you’re a fan of roguelikes. Shiren The Wanderer for the DS is one of my favorite games.
Tecmo Super Coach Updates Roster, Gameplay
Tecmo Super Coach is a ROM hack for Tecmo Super Bowl (NES) that adds and changes a whole bunch of stuff.
Closing Tabs 5/27/09
Super Mario 64 longplay, grabbing all 120 stars. If you were under the age of 30 when this came out, goodbye afternoon. It’s such an astoundingly well put together game. At every stage, care was taken to make sure it “felt” right. Jason Scott‘s talk about Platform Studies has me rekindling my love affair with it.
The Metroid Prime entry on Wikitroid. ’nuff said. Exploring the 3D transition of one of Nintendo’s other major franchises, which skipped the N64 and went straight to the GameCube. With Mario 64, everyone expected it to be mind-blowing. With Prime, everyone expected it to be shit. Sometimes everyone is wrong. Disclosure: I have stock options in Wikia.
ANTHEM Platform. A platform for piping Social Networks, IM, email, OEMs, etc, to cell phone applications. Recently acquired by Good Technology.
Imified. A service which runs IM bots for you, and acts as a go-between for you and the IM network. You can code up applications that the bot queries with what is said to it, by whom. They provide examples in PHP, which makes me happy.
Google is “betting big on HTML5″. Speed of web development accelerating,
canvas,video, client-side databases, web workers, etc. See also: YouTube using the HTML5videotag.Sleeping with the NME: how the British music press picked up a dose of the crap, which is about the sorry state of the British music press. From Velvet Coalmine, which has become a favorite blog of mine.
Remote-controlled sperm, or more precisely: remote-controller sperm-like nanodevices.
CSS-only gradients using CSS3 and no images. Whatsoever. Uses the
-webkit-gradientproperty. Hot shit.
Jason Scott’s Presentation on Platform Studies from Notacon 6
In short: Context is king. His central theme seems to be that simply looking at the rulesets of old games is missing the point. The platform itself informs the game to a huge degree.
Amazon.com Now Selling WiiWare Game Codes
Following the Xbox Live Arcade codes, this is no surprise, but nice to see. Also of interest to me: Amazon does not allow their associates to get commissions on these cards. Profit margin must be close to zero, if not into the red.
Mike Tyson’s Intergalactic Power Punch ROM Released
The unreleased sequel to Punch Out!!, now available for download or purchase in the form of a reproduction cart.
