“When any CPU includes hardware that decides to redirect the CPU’s attention to a new program regardless of the nature of the current program we have an interrupt. […] A program comes to a presumably rare situation where the CPU cannot obey the program given the unusual state of the computation. Th...
"I’ve seen other designer’s sketchbooks and I’m always impressed by how much..."
“I’ve seen other designer’s sketchbooks and I’m always impressed by how much creativity is on display. Not in mine. Page after page contain nothing but records of phone conversations, notes from meetings, price estimates, specifications. I keep the random doodles to a minimum. Someone looking at th...
Contradictions like these abound in many retail establishments...
Contradictions like these abound in many retail establishments that prohibit cameras while they also use 2-d barcodes that require people to use cameras to read them ...
A definition of Weird Twitter content.
A definition of Weird Twitter content. ...
Horseless horses, shown in The Atlantic.
Horseless horses, shown in The Atlantic. ...
#book notes october 2012
Quick notes from books i've read recently: NOT WHAT IF / WHAT IF NOT (Task #2) "For most clients who want a sellable product, 'what if? is not the most comfortable starting point." This book is part of the "task newsletter" initiative, a once-a-year publication meant to "use design as a perspective...
gamestorm: “Designed this simple arena for a multiplayer FPS...
gamestorm: “Designed this simple arena for a multiplayer FPS I’m working on. I first jotted down some properties I was aiming for an then designed to those specs.” Submitted by Rob Lach in Chicago, IL, USA. ...
"SF is becoming the work of the third artist. The first artist goes out and paints from life. The..."
“SF is becoming the work of the third artist. The first artist goes out and paints from life. The second artist copies the first artist. The third artist copies the second artist. (I’ve usually seen this analogy applies to fantasy, with Tolkien as the first artist.) The first artist put things in b...
“Life is Magic”: The game pulls in real-world...
“Life is Magic”: The game pulls in real-world locations and maps, but then re-skins them to look like a fantasy kingdom. Each area on the map, then, has towers to join, factions, and three classes of hero, Mage, Monk, or Machinist. Players log into the game, connect with other players in the t...
What's up here!?
Sorry for the silence here but the last few weeks have been super hectic because of various projects. So, as a quick summary of what I'm up to: I just finished writing the French manuscript of a book about the history of game controllers. It's called "Joypads! Le design des manettes" and it's goin...