Wednesday, March 03, 2004

This to That. Which glue to use? [Cool Tools]

Virtual Sex Change. From our pals at Fleshbot: Men: wondering how you'd look as a woman, but don't want to deal with messy plastic surgery or expensive hormone treatments? Let expert technicians Candy and Angel Lee transform you through the magic of Virtual Feminization: "The process carried out by an artist technician employs hands on digital imaging to facially reconstruct and feminize your image using your own genetics and facial features as a base for the new beautiful, feminine you." (We think the new Dubya looks quite fetching, kind of like a femme Jamie Lee Curtis.) Virtual Feminization Clinic and Imagurl Models (Imagurl.com), See also: Cleavage Transformation Tips Link [Boing Boing Blog]

Eugene Jarvis!. Twenty-five Years at the Heart of Gaming [Slashdot] Twenty-five Years at the Heart of Gaming Posted by michael on Tuesday March 02, @01:28PM from the hyperspace dept. Andrew Leonard writes "Salon has a loooong interview with Eugene Jarvis, the creator of legendary arcade video games Defender and Robotron, up today. Jarvis talks about why he is pro-emulators, anti-Grand Theft Auto, still focused on arcade games, and deeply worried about terrorism. It's a good read, even if you have to watch a ten second ad to get access." :-) Marc's memories..... I met Eugene Jarvis at a bar on Clark St. in Chicago - in 1982. We were both in the videogame business - his game 'Defender' was a lot cooler than ours - 'Prof. Pac-Man' - but he didn't seem to mind. And what a coincidence - had lunch with Andrew Leonard - yesterday. What a small world this is turning into. Maybe I'll get lucky and run into Eugene at: the GDC or E3 - this year. It's feeling better and better to be back in the gaming world - after 21 years of being away. [Marc's Voice]

What If You Could Integrate Sound into the Game?. iPod Story Game "The iPod follows in the footsteps of the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, et al, making the natural progression from low power computer to low-end gaming machine. 'The Rise of the Lost' is a 'choose your own adventure' game for the iPod. The game takes advantage of the iPod Notes feature, effectively creating a hyperlinked text environment where each page of story ends with a choice of where to go next." [MobileWhack] [The Shifted Librarian]