20th Century Fox announces indie games fund
▻https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-02-07-20th-century-fox-announces-indie-games-fund
Etherborn becomes first title to take advantage of fund aimed at developers “taking creative risks”
-
-
Very limited tickets available for the GamesIndustry.biz UK Marketing Summit
▻https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-12-10-very-limited-tickets-available-for-the-gamesindustry-biz-uSpeakers include 20th Century Fox, BBC, McLaren and more set to appear
-
How to Build a Probability Microscope - Issue 44: Luck
▻http://nautil.us/issue/44/luck/-how-to-build-a-probability-microscopeIf the rumors are true, 20th Century Fox will release a remake of the 1966 science-fiction film Fantastic Voyage in the next year or two. The conceit behind the film is that its protagonists are shrunk down and injected into the human body, through which they travel in a microscopic submarine. At that size, a swirl of blood turns into dangerous turbulence. White blood cells can engulf their ship. A droplet’s surface tension, formerly imperceptible, now forms an impenetrable barrier. Changing scales disrupts our intuitive sense of what is significant, what is powerful, and what is dangerous. To survive, we must recalibrate our intuitions. Even if every effect at familiar scales is negligible, the slightly less negligible effect may become monstrously important at unfamiliar scales.big (...)
-
The Author of “The Martian” Explains How the Book Behind the Movie Came About - Facts So Romantic
▻http://nautil.us/blog/the-author-of-the-martian-explains-how-the-book-behind-the-movie-came-aboutThe story of Andy Weir is a strange mix of fact and fiction. There’s the fairy tale success of his book, The Martian, which he self-published on his blog for free, intended for the few thousand fans he’d accumulated over years of hobby writing. Some of those fans wanted an electronic book version, which he made, and then a Kindle version, which he made too, charging the minimum price allowable by Amazon: $0.99. “That’s when I learned how deep Amazon’s reach is,” Weir would later tell an audience. Within four months, The Martian had risen to the top spot on Amazon’s sci-fi best-seller list, and two months later he had signed both a book deal with Random House’s Crown Publishing imprint and a movie deal with 20th Century Fox. The book is currently at the top of The New York Times’ fiction (...)
