Enabling lay use of emerging technology. Preserving outdated digital and physical artifacts. Research, participatory design, facilitation, prototyping.
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Like, maybe it's just as simple as, the commodification of skill as any profession matures means we teach people *how* to do and not *why* to do, and "why" is what the most senior people care about, so they're devalued and leave, idk idk
Today's nice thing is learning @intercom and @thoughtwax linked to some work I did: the emulation of the Canon Cat at the @internetarchive. Serious nerdery in thread 👇
Want to feel like you’ve got sudden software superpowers? There’s probably a shortcut for that – @thoughtwax looks at how new best of breed business apps are out-innovating the incumbents. inter.com/2Xn41Fq
Two big companies released video games for vintage platforms on the web, both powered by WebAssembly-compiled emulators. McDonald's released a new Game Boy Color game, Grimace's Birthday, powered by the binjgb emulator: grimacesbirthday.com/
And, Capcom released several vintage NES and SNES games for their 40th anniversary as part of Capcom Town, powered by the ares emulator: captown.capcom.com/en/retro_…
Space Opera (2018) /@catvalente /cc @cecycorrea
Asymmetric play!
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Over two years ago I wondered whether Inform 7 (and related tools like @twinethreads or @YarnSpinnerTool) could be adapted to create voice UIs, esp. for non-programmers. Exciting to see the Alexa Games team at Amazon try something in this space: litexa.com/
Two and a half years later, Inform 7 goes open source, and as @zarfeblong writes, "…it opens the possibility of using Inform as middleware in other game frameworks." blog.zarfhome.com/2022/04/in…
Can now confirm. There's a large bin at the bottom of my freezer where I assume ice cubes are supposed to go. It is now completely filled with Oreo cookie wafers. It is not the only place with Oreo cookie wafers.
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Gotta stay relevant! There's one academic paper that includes both "Unrealty" and "metaverse" in it, and then also @icculus' Patreon post:
ALT Unrealty is a fascinating note in the history of Unreal. It was striving to fulfill that idea of using game engines for non-game things, of laying down a few cobblestones on the path to the Metaverse. After Unrealty was done, Vito went on to run the Unreal Developer Network for years. People that built Triple-A games and were to be personally responsible for future generations of the Unreal Engine came through Perilith's offices as contractors, young and unknown and about to change the world.
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Ethnographer Götz Bachmann got to spend months observing the team around @worrydream that built @Dynamicland1. He published several papers on the process, their ethos and their ways of working.
To make his insights more widely available I summarized them: christophlabacher.com/notes/…
A @simonw comment last week reminded me to publish this, so: introducing "archival ownership markers," a .well-known URI to tell caches and archives when a domain is or isn't yours, to help keep your old content available: vitor.io/archival-markers 1/8
This doesn't solve all the issues that @ID_AA_Carmack was referencing in his recent tweets about IA being a host of record, which Simon was responding to. I think I address one specific scenario pretty well, and would like to hear about edge cases as folks try it. 7/8
Jonah also provided additional references, listed at the end of the report. Additional thanks to @CopyrightLibn for mentioning @ARLpolicy's "model deed of gift" at some point, which the marker's attestation is based on. 8/8
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Fellow @distance 01 coauthor @Jon_Whipple gets a nod in Dr. @llewyn_ Paine's @atxdesignweek talk on Discovering Physical-Digital Spaces, about designing spatial systems for the other 60% of the workforce: youtu.be/OI0ValvkfM0 #ADW21
Capitalism abhors a public square
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I'd love to see @TimSweeneyEpic publish "Unreal1Log.txt", his worklog from the last two years of Unreal 1 development.
And now:
Please enjoy this historical treasure: 2009-era IRC logs from the channel that was testing, developing and discussing the in-progress game that became known as "Minecraft".
archive.org/details/2009_Min…
One post down, hundreds to go: xitter.cf/TimSweeneyEpic/status/…
