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.
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.
Which means you can download it. This Superman is a prototype which was eventually renamed Sunman, with the logo changed. Sunman was never released, but it is fully playable. It is not at all the same Superman game released by KEMCO for the NES. Gameplay is very similar to another Sunsoft superhero game Batman: Return of the Joker.
Everyblock is a great project, and this makes it better. I cannot wait for the main Everyblock code to go open source.
WebRing was started by a co-founder of DreamHost. Then sold to GeoCities, which was then sold to Yahoo, and, well, read the article. Josh thinks it’s a sort of micrososm of the web:
It went from a tiny ad-free community service, to hyper-growth, to showing ads, to being acquired for an INSANE price, to being forsaken, to doing anything to survive, to “social networking”, to “web 2.0″, to today!
They’re also offering free hosting for 1000 GeoCities users, should any be found.