A Shooter Showdown by Josh Bycer

Gamasutra article on shortcomings of the FPS games genre and things that could be improved in it.

Developers React: The iPad’s Future by Kris Graft and Christian Nutt

Gamasutra article on the reaction of game developing community to Apple’s announcement of iPad.

Dear Students,

The club will meet tomorrow (Wednesday) at noon again.

- We will discuss trip and other outing ideas
- I will show you how to make a simple slide show in Flash, if we get to it.
- We will talk about increasing the membership
- Any other ideas are welcome, of course.

Talk to you friends and invite them over.
If this meeting time is not good for you let me know.

I hope to see you at noon!

Best,
PJ

Paid Mac Internship Position is offered by ITS.

If you are “mac savy”, reliable and looking for an internship on campus please send a cover letter and resume to Scott Clark at clarks@canisius.edu.

Interviewing will be conducted in February with hopes to start someone 1-2 days a week in March. More hours over the summer (approx 20-25/wk) and in the fall should be about 10-12/week.

If you are interested, contact Scott Clark at clarks@canisius.edu

Dear Students,

I hope you had good break and your semester is off to a good start.

Following Mr. Dunkle’s suggestion, I would like to start a series of presentations conducted by students and faculty about a topic of your choice (most likely related to art and technology). The presentations would be rather concise, between 30 min. to an hour, and would be followed by a discussion.

Let’s meet for the first time this Wednesday, January 27 at noon, just like last semester. If this time doesn’t work for people we will then change to another time. We probably won’t be able to accommodate everybody’s schedule and will simply go with majority. As always, we will meet in the DMA lounge next to DMA Web Lab on the 3rd floor of Lyons.

I will kick off the series this Wednesday at noon with a presentation titled “Building Virtual Cities with Google SketchUp”. We will take a look at 3D modeling application called Google SketchUp and we will connect to Google Earth where we will place our virtual models. You are invited!

If you own a laptop you can bring it with you and follow along. Download Google SketchUp (http://sketchup.google.com) and Google Earth (http://earth.google.com) for free prior to the presentation.

If you have any questions or ideas for a presentation, just e-mail me moskalp@canisius.edu

Regards,
PJ Moskal

Hey all! Hope you all had a good long Winter Break.. I thought that the blog would be a good place to start to try to and see when would be good meeting times for next semester for the club.. Just post what the best day/times are for you next semester according to your schedule, I’ll send out an email as soon as the semester starts off and people are back at school. Thanks!

Games Are Not Art, Are They? – Darren Gladstone interview with “Jenova” Chen, creative director of ThatGameCompany, The Washington Post

Very interesting article from New York Times:
From Pocket to Stage, Music in the Key of iPhone by Claire Cain Miller and Miguel Helft

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/17-01/st_thompson

This is just an article talking about a youtube user who called himself “MadV” who was able to create a ground breaking youtube video that many people dont know about today. MadV first created a fan base by doing simple magic tricks behind a mask. Some examples

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6BphmOeBnU&feature=PlayList&p=D4E02239B7BB85A6&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N10QdB6FEPk&feature=PlayList&p=D4E02239B7BB85A6&index=9

However once he started to build a fanbase, he released a simple 41 second video of himself displaying his hand with the words “One World” on it. He urged his fans to respond. Before long his simple video had become the most responded to video in all of youtubes history. Its preety cool to see so many people come together to respond to one video. Following this successful video MadV created another experimental video asking users to define what it means to be human. Again he recieved overwhelming responces from all over the world. Unfortuanitly his youtube account was deleted (Why the views are so low) But two montage videos were created afterwards. They are very powerful and you can watch them below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-BzXpOch-E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4oeO6-BeJk&feature=channel