XXXXtreme Street LugeTabletop Tuesdays: Dudes Talkin Bullshit | Submitted by costik on Mon, 06/02/2008 - 23:55. |
In XXXXtreme Street Luge, a little indie RPG tossed off by Ben Lehman (designer of Polaris, an excellent RPG but one you have to pay for), you are not just a street luger, but an XXXXtreme street luger, performing risky and impressive cinematic stunts in this fast-growing competitive sport that some have likened to parkour in its beauty and imaginative use of the urban environment. A detailed simulation of...
Well, no, not really. Only about the first half of that paragraph is true.
Stoked Rider: Alaska AlienExtreme Snowboarding | Submitted by costik on Tue, 05/22/2007 - 02:32. |
Stoked Rider is a snowboarding game with realistic physics (using Ageia's PhysX engine)--including fluid simulation and avalanches. You roam over a huge space--64 square kilometers of procedurally-created Alaskan moutains. No ski slopes, in other words--just you and the mountain.
Why Is Super Columbine Massacre Controversial?
Super Columbine Massacre is controversial for one reason only: Because our culture continues to assume that games are "mere entertainment," that a game based on so horrific an event must ipso facto be in bad taste. Games are fun, Columbine was a tragedy and never the twain shall meet; a game on Columbine must by nature trivialize or cynically exploit the event. Q.E.D.
Yet we do not make the same assumption about any other medium: a documentary on the Columbine massacre, or a novel, or a New Yorker essay would, a priori, be treated with respect, at least until the viewer or reader had experienced it, after which a judgment might be made as to its merits. And if the work proved insightful, somber,and respectful of its material, the world would consider it unexceptional.
