Sweet.
Leisure Suit Larry ‘Greatest Hits and Misses’ collection now on GOG
Classic PC adventure gaming examples of how not to pick up women have been spritzed with horrendous cologne and dressed up as GOG’s Leisure Suit Larry “Greatest Hits and Misses” collection. The $10 pack includes the first five Larry jams, the oldest of which (Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards) comes in both Original and VGA flavors.
Great read, and a gold star for mentioning Dani Bunten.
Message in a Binary Bottle | cabel.me
It’s 20 or 30 years ago. You’re working on a videogame. You don’t get any credit for your work, blogs don’t exist, there’s no internet and no fanboys. It’s just you, a crusty old terminal, and got a few spare bytes left in the ROM. What now?
> Type Secret Message
OK. You’ve hidden a secret message in the ROM, to be uncovered many, many years later, and posted on the incredible website, The Cutting Room Floor.
This lines up with Whitaker’s investigative reporting in Anatomy of an Epidemic.
Children’s A.D.D. Drugs Don’t Work Long-Term – NYTimes.com
THREE million children in this country take drugs for problems in focusing. Toward the end of last year, many of their parents were deeply alarmed because there was a shortage of drugs like Ritalin and Adderall that they considered absolutely essential to their children’s functioning.
But are these drugs really helping children? Should we really keep expanding the number of prescriptions filled?
In 30 years there has been a twentyfold increase in the consumption of drugs for attention-deficit disorder.
As a psychologist who has been studying the development of troubled children for more than 40 years, I believe we should be asking why we rely so heavily on these drugs.
It reminds me of this comic. There’s a follow-up if it makes you too sad.
Even more news about Black Flag.
“Black Flag” to perform at Hevy Fest
The organizers of Hevy Fest in the UK have announced that Black Flag will perform at this year’s festival. The band is to feature Black Flag members Greg Ginn and singer Ron Reyes. No word on who else will be in the lineup. The performance is being billed as the band’s “only UK show in 2013,” indicating that other shows with this lineup are in the works.
Click through and test the demos. They run really fast on in Chrome.
voxel.js * blocks in yo browser
voxel.js is a collection of projects that make it easier than ever to create 3D voxel games like Minecraft all in the browser.
It was written by @maxogden and @substack, two non-game developers that want to make voxel games easy, fun and modular. If you find bugs it is because we don’t really know what we are doing. The good news is that 100% of the code is on Github so we hope you will fork it.
