Deux Ex: The game you can’t win
▻https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-04-30-deux-ex-the-game-you-cant-win
Why I Love: Bow to Blood developer Matthew Hoesterey says the immersive sim was everything he hoped for, but not what he expected
Deux Ex: The game you can’t win
▻https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-04-30-deux-ex-the-game-you-cant-win
Why I Love: Bow to Blood developer Matthew Hoesterey says the immersive sim was everything he hoped for, but not what he expected
Gratitude for the Miracle Man
▻https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-04-02-gratitude-for-the-miracle-man
Why I Love: Pumped BMX developer Adam Hunt pays heartfelt homage to a magazine disc demo of Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX
Persona 5 and the merger of style and substance
▻https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-03-19-persona-5-and-the-merger-of-style-and-substance
Why I Love: Marketer Michal Napora was sold by the Atlus RPG’s flashy exterior, but hooked by its substantial heart
The sweet science of Armadillo Run
▻https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-03-05-the-sweet-science-of-armadillo-run
Why I Love: Hugecalf Studios’ Andy Metcalfe explains how the 2008 indie effort got the ball rolling on his love of physics-based puzzlers
Why I Hate Calls
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How I feel every time some is calling me.Imagine this:You just “e-met” someone on LinkedIn, email or Skype and are about to talk about business. Then the other person suddenly says: “Let’s just on a call”.WTF? WHY would you want to do that???First of all. I don’t “jump” on a calls.Second- I hate calls, and here is why.The call always comes in a bad timeIn 99% of the time you are either working, eating, having a break, doing sports, taking a loo or doing something else important and then that stupid call comes in, and you have stop everything you are doing and answer it. There’s practically never a good time for a call (unless of course you scheduled it before), because I don’t remember ever sitting and thinking: “hmm, now it would be a good time if someone gave me cold call”.The call takes all your (...)
#cold-calling #phone-call #cold-calls #conference-call #why-i-hate-calls
How Odama tilted the playing field
▻https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-01-29-thanks-odama
Why I Love: Pig Eat Ball’s Nathan Fouts reminisces about Yoot Saito’s bizarre pinball-meets-RTS GameCube exclusive
Rez and the power of owning your own experience
▻https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-01-15-rez-and-the-power-of-owning-your-own-experience
Why I Love: Friend & Foe’s Ivar Dahlberg examines the Tetsuya Mizuguchi classic and how it influences his own very different work
Why do people really buy #bitcoin?
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People buy bitcoin because of value and values.People buy bitcoin because it is a system of money that corresponds to how humanity has exchanged value for most of our history. Technologically, this system is based on mathematical formulae and a straight-forward verification and record system. The implications are spectacular: you can now trust exchanging value with another person or institution directly, even if you don’t know them.In terms of values, the crypto system is profoundly natural, a very human invention, based on the concepts of freedom and fairness. It is the most authentic form of money humanity has had since value was based on memory. It is characterised as set out below.Based only on PV money (i.e. value that exists today, not tied to any required future value (...)
Alex Gladstein on Why #bitcoin Matters for Freedom
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Audio interview transcription — WBD056Note: the following is a transcription of my interview with Alex Gladstein, Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation. I use Rev.com from translations and they remove ums, errs and half sentences. I have reviewed the transcription but if you find any mistakes, please feel free to email me. You can listen to the original recording here.You can subscribe to the podcast and listen to all episodes here.In this episode, I talk with Alex Gladstein, Chief Strategy Officer at The Human Rights Foundation. We discuss how Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies increase freedom under authoritarian regimes and how Dem Tech could lead to a wave of investment in crypto.▻https://medium.com/media/6cdcc6193ddb7200387e75b1d96a3689/hrefConnect with What Bitcoin (...)
#cryptocurrency #why-bitcoin-matters #bitcoin-freedom #alex-gladstein
Why #everipedia Exists and Why I Enjoy Contributing to it: A Call to Action
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Why Everipedia Exists and Why I Enjoy Contributing to It: A Call to ActionEveripedia launched in 2015 with the idea of reimagining how the encyclopedia works. As Paul Graham said in his newsletter over 10 years ago, “There is room to do to #wikipedia what Wikipedia did to Britannica,” and he is right more than ever. Before in the print era, we were constrained by the binding of books in what we could put in an encyclopedia. In the information age, why would we keep limiting ourselves when we have the capacity to host millions upon millions of pages? And with new notable concepts and memes (pertaining to the evolution of the idea) rising to the forefront daily, we will have to sooner rather than later. If Wikipedia is the online encyclopedia for traditional knowledge, then Everipedia is (...)
Old ways can still be the best ways
▻https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-12-18-old-ways-can-still-be-the-best-ways
Why I Love: YoYo Games’ Mike Dailly explains how tech from the 1988 Commodore 64 shooter Armalyte is still used today
Striking the balance of autonomy and narrative
▻https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-12-04-striking-the-balance-of-autonomy-and-narrative
Why I Love: Auroch Digital’s Nina Collins digs into the guided open-world of Sucker Punch’s Infamous
Why vs. Why now
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I recently read an article that said teams should ask “why now” instead of “why” when making large product and #engineering decisions. It struck a chord.There is a cost associated with all things software engineering, in house engineering is not an infinite resource.Speed is of the essence when deciding what to buildWhyWhen the question of why we need a “feature” is asked I have found it is usually backed by two types of reasoning;Feature parity to competitorBelief customers need said featureEngineering teams are busier than ever, corporate want to manage costs and see gains more than ever and this gives us a problem; we cannot build everything now.Why nowThere is fierce competition when it comes to a business that has a core function based on building software. Startups and small companies can (...)
#why-vs-why-now #startup #software-development #product-management
Assassins Creed: An ancient world with a modern mood
▻https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-11-20-assassins-creed-an-ancient-world-with-a-modern-mood
Why I Love: KeokeN Interactive founder Koen Deetman shares how Ubisoft’s open-world adventure captured his imagination
Brevity is the soul of Minit
▻https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-11-06-brevity-is-the-soul-of-minit
Why I Love: Size Five Games’ Dan Marshall explains why the 60-second adventure game represents “streamlining at its best”
Appreciating annelid annihilation in Worms: Armageddon
▻https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-10-09-an-appreciation-of-annelid-annihilation
Why I Love: Perfectly Paranormal’s Ozan Drøsdal reminisces on Team17’s classic, from its absurd aesthetic to its amenable online community
Homeworld: Sideswiped by a Story
▻https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-09-11-homeworld-sideswiped-by-a-story
Why I Love: Snowcastle Games’ Thomas French reflects on how Relic’s deep space RTS provided a strong narrative through mechanics
Why Read the Classics ? (1986) (▻https://www.nybooks.com/articles/198...
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Why Read the Classics? (1986)
A classic does not necessarily teach us anything we did not know before. In a classic we sometimes discover something we have always known (or thought we knew), but without knowing that this author…
HN Discussion: ▻https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17897871 Posted by constantinum (karma: 599) Post stats: Points: 118 - Comments: 67 - 2018-09-02T17:57:24Z
#HackerNews #1986 #classics #read #the #why
Article content:
Let us begin with a few suggested definitions.
1) The classics are the books of which we usually hear people say: “I am rereading…” and never “I am reading….”
This at least happens among those who consider themselves “very well read.” It does not hold good for young people at the age when they first encounter the world, and the classics as a (...)
Portal was a classic from out of nowhere
▻https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-08-28-portal-was-a-classic-from-out-of-nowhere
Why I Love: YoYo Games’ Russell Kay remembers how The Orange Box toss-in stole the whole Half-Life show
The Darkness, or “How I learned to leave the Sun and Love the Nordics”
▻https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-08-14-the-darkness-or-how-i-learnt-to-leave-the-sun-and-love-the
3rd Eye Studios’ Gregory Louden finds inspiration in Starbreeze’s first-person shooter that lets players inhabit the protagonist for quiet moments as well as firefights
Why the hybrid #cloud is no longer the best option
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Many businesses are afraid to move their mission-critical systems and workloads to the cloud, due to multiple security breaches that are frequently reported. However, this cannot be less true.There are only two types of businesses out there, the ones already in the cloud, and the ones who will be in the cloud sooner or later. The age of on-prem infrastructures is rapidly coming to an end, as the benefits of the cloud — high availability, scalability, virtualization, and cost-efficiency — are too large to neglect.However, many businesses are concerned with the constantly revealed cases of cloud security breaches (like the regularly updated celebrity naked photo leaks or the infamous Pentagon security cloud security breach that happened in the November of 2017). Cases like that seem to heat the (...)
Coming full circle with Halo
▻https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-07-31-coming-full-circle-with-halo
Why I Love: The TrailerFarm’s Tony Porter shares how Bungie’s shooter completed a journey he’d begun as a child playing hooky with his father
Why i choose #blockchain
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The future is in our hands and we must make it amazingPhilosophyIf we will make a chart of humanity progress, we will see that for last decades it grows like 2^x function. For last 20 years there were invented smartphones, laptops, self-driven cars, robots, smart houses, Blockchain, virtual reality, lot of medical equipments and this is just small part of all novelty. And i think humanity will progress even faster for next few years. We can see now how the big companies integrate blockchain and machine learning into their business, how many countries engineering robots for daily usage and for military, how Tesla inventing self-driving cars and integrates it in our life, how Blockchain changes payment structure and data transmission, how smart houses doing all our household chores. In (...)
#choose-blockchain #life-lessons #self-improvement #why-i-choose-blockchain
#Why[Some Tool]
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I was having a heated discussion with someone recently about story points. It was one of those standard “that’s not the fault of story points” arguments that goes nowhere. I realized a very common pattern — one that I have found to signal an opportunity for “refactoring” common approaches. It is age-old…basic decoupling and separation of concerns.The QuestionWith every process, tool, methodology, and framework you adopt…ask:What job(s) are we hiring [the thing] to do?List them out. What you’ll find, is that you are frequently asking [the thing] to do more than one job. Let’s take a simple example: story points.Example: Story Point JobsEstimate duration for a projectKeep track of progress towards a bigger goal OR deadlineKnow how many stories to “pull” into a sprintCalculate some sort of productivity (...)
Uncharted 4’s commitment to making every moment matter
▻https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-07-17-why-i-love-uncharted-4
Why I Love: The TrailerFarm’s Dan Porter says every aspect of Naughty Dog’s blockbuster is evidence of an ambitious dev team fully invested in the project