Japan doesn’t have a substantial psychedelic drug culture that I’m aware of, but you’d never guess it from Katamari Damacy.
It’s no accident that music and games share the verb “to play.” Both music and games are semi-structured forms of social learning. As far as I’m concerned, the most exciting thing happening in the video game world is the explosion of music-based games like Dance Dance Revolution.
Also filed in Dance, Improvisation, Interfaces, Music, Software
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Tagged dance, ddr, guitar hero, Improvisation, japan, jazz, king of the hill, miles davis, Music, music notation, Video Games, visualization
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Update: this was written before I ever touched an iPhone or iPad. These devices are major improvements over the desktop metaphor GUIs I complain about below. When you grow up playing video games, like I did, the primitiveness of office software user interface design comes as a shock. The desktop metaphor was a brilliant stroke [...]
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Tagged apple, computers, desktop, eighties, interface, metaphor, microsoft, nintendo, recursion, super mario bros, visualization, windows
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009
When the computer crashes, it seems like it’s frozen. Actually, it’s still working as fast as usual. It only appears to be stuck because it isn’t responding to you. The computer is too busy to take input because it’s in a loop, executing the same short list of instructions over and over. Computers have become [...]