http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron text@machinemachine.net http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WiwNekNJGA&feature=youtube_gdata ]]> Sun, 15 May 2011 03:29:37 -0700 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WiwNekNJGA&feature=youtube_gdata http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulbotKa5LnM&feature=youtube_gdata ]]> Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:12:00 -0700 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulbotKa5LnM&feature=youtube_gdata http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/evil-lair-on-architecture-of-enemy-in.html Game developers are unconstrained in their designs for the enemy. Such designers will be punished with poor sales, not death in the gulag, if their designs for the overlord are unpopular. They could go anywhere with the homes of evildoers: halls of electric fluorescence, palaces carved from corduroy, suburban back yards. And yet, in spite of this freedom, most videogame designers choose to make a definite connection to familiar – or real-world – architecture. Perhaps they think that the evil lair must emanate evil. There's surely no room for ambiguity with videogame evildoers: the gamer needs to know that it's… ]]> Sun, 17 May 2009 03:23:00 -0700 http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/evil-lair-on-architecture-of-enemy-in.html