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Hay guys,

I'm starting a blog about games, life, cooking, music, etc. You can reach it here: http://s0dk.blogspot.com/

Drop by! I just started it last night and I think it looks pretty ugly but I'll be working on it this summer.

Look what I found!

An Essay on Shadow of the Colossus

I'm going to read it, play the game, and post some form of response. Stay tuned.

Bored? PLAY THIS GAME AND WRITE A PAPER ON IT!!!

So EVENTUALLY I'd like to post some thoughtful discourse and analysis on games/codeart/digital media on this blog, but tonight I'm tired, lazy, and bored so I thought I'd post a few links to games that I have and have not played in hopes that at least someone else's boredom will be staved off for a few hours or minutes.

Darkside Adventures
The Dude's website
A fun game designed in the style of old Genesis/NES games. It gets pretty hard, and I'm definitely stuck on the last level. Still, it's got a fun retro feel to it.

A review of Ether Vapor
Torrent
A fun Japanese Doujin Shmup. Japanese Doujin computer game industry is truly fascinating, and it's almost like an official indie gaming market which is really cool. Anyways, I was going to have links to the game demo proper, but apparently the whole company website is down/missing. Maybe they just moved, or are temporarily down, or gone for good, but it's definitely a fun game, judging by how many times I played it during screening on mute. It gets pretty hard, and there's a cool system where the number of shields and continues your allowed to have increases as you play more times, so you're allowed to mess up more often the more times you die.

That's about all I feel like posting up for now. Later on in the summer, I'll write up a bit about http://0100101110101101.org/ or The Marriage but right now Robot Chicken should be coming on so I'm signing off.

Gnite Folks!
-Jason "The Basin" Lee

Random News

Revive, ye sleeping blog! Revive!

From one of the links on the page (because I'm too lazy to summarize myself):

"The project will culminate in a series of activities in virtual worlds tailored to bring together Muslims and non-Muslims. It will also produce a range of audio, video, and transcript products, along with a policy recommendation paper which will include a list of specific recommendations for the U.S. government on how to use virtual worlds to promote international understanding. The paper will be distributed through government briefings."

Understanding Islam Through Virtual Worlds

Also, there's this article from GamaSutra, which even gives a name-check to You Have to Burn the Rope:

How can a game be subversive?

Final Post?

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Final Paper Proposal

I plan on writing on Rez as well as its relation to games such as Guitar Hero and Dance Dance Revolution. I will write on the fascination with association of sound and image as well as the interactivity with the soundtrack. Guitar Hero, moreso than the other two games mentioned, can serve as a promotional vehicle for newer artists, allowing them to be measured, played over and over again next to classic songs. My paper will detail the effectiveness of rehearsed playback yielding familiarity, yielding affinity with regards to the music featured in the game. While Rez allows the user to create music on a more abstract and visually stunning way, both Guitar Hero and Dance Dance Revolution pound their songs into your head by making them a fun challenge to overcome.