Category Archives: computer games

The Sims

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The Sims:

In addition, the game includes a very advanced architecture system. The game was originally designed as an architecture simulation alone, with the Sims there only to evaluate the houses, but during development it was decided that the Sims were more interesting than originally anticipated and their initially limited role in the game was developed further.

Flickr:

Flickr was developed by Ludicorp, a Vancouver-based company that launched Flickr in February 2004. The service emerged out of tools originally created for Ludicorp’s Game Neverending, a web-based massively multiplayer online game. Flickr proved a more feasible project and ultimately Game Neverending was shelved.

Early versions of Flickr focused on a multiuser chat room called FlickrLive with real-time photo exchange capabilities. There was also an emphasis on collecting images found on the web rather than photographs taken by users. The successive evolutions focused more on the uploading and filing backend for individual users and the chat room was buried in the site map. It was eventually dropped as Flickr’s backend systems evolved away from the Game Neverending’s codebase.

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2010.12.16 Thursday ACHK

Apple II

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The Apple II really started the whole gaming industry, because it was the first time a computer had been built with sound, paddles, color, graphics—all the things for games. And it was really so that I could implement Breakout in software.

— Steve Wozniak

— Founders at Work

2010.12.03 Friday ACHK

Halcyon Days

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Developing game concepts is like getting wet in the rain, if you know the technology backwards and forwards, and know what market segment you are trying to amuse with the technology.

Since I had been involved in the whole development of the hardware and had been explaining microprocessors to the world for several years, the only question was which market segment Magnavox wanted to address next. They would say “boys,” and I would say lets blow something up and have it come after you if you miss; any playground would tell you the same thing. They would say “moms,” and I would say lets do educational games. When they said “dads,” the strategy board games were born on the back of a cocktail napkin.

— Ed Averett

— Halcyon Days (book)

— James Hague

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2010.10.05 Tuesday ACHK