Elegant Chaos

Joshua Portway just sent me this link to a video showing the evolution of little big planet.

The graphics were generated by something called Code Swarm, by analysing the source control system to track changes to source files!

How cool... I wonder if I can get it working over the Football Manager code base...

If you loved the old Infocom adventure games as much as I did, and also loved the work of Douglas Adams as much as I did, you won't want to miss this post from Andy Baio.
Tags: games, infocom, hitchhikers

I read a nice interview with Harold Ryan from Bungie in this month's Develop, about their decision to split from Microsoft.

In it he says:

"so we’ve chosen people to balance that out but who understand that the primary aim of the company is to make the best innovative, creative entertainment possible. And if that means we’re a break-even company instead of a massively profitable company, then that’s where we’ll go.

We’re going to make the games that both gamers and us ourselves would want to play. If that makes us successful from a financial point of view then awesome, but we’re not going to do it the other way – target being profitable and see what kind of game we could make to do that."

Suffice to say that this spoke to me. I wonder if they've got any jobs going :)

Tags: bungie.games, development