I have been working on debris lately. I think it looks pretty cool to have this debris floating around after destroying stuff.
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Category Archives: Video
Latest Gunship Demo Video
This is the latest video for the game I’m creating
The game involves going on missions, getting upgrades, customizing your spaceship with different guns, missiles, armor, shields, engines, etc.
Let me know if you have any suggestions or feedback.
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DeepMind Artificial Intelligence [Video]
I stumbled on this interesting video the other day. DeepMind is a company founded to create general artificial intelligence (“general” meaning that the AI can understand all kinds of different things, like a human being can). Most AI is “narrow” – which means it it specifically created to solve one problem (like play chess very well).
The whole video is interesting, but you can jump ahead to 10:00 to see the AI learn to play 1980s video games. It does a surprisingly good job at playing Space Invaders and Breakout. It doesn’t do so well with more complicated games like PacMan, though. The amazing thing is that the only information they feed the AI is the screen image. The AI slowly learns to play the game by trying to maximize his score.
Casualties of World War II [Video]
This was a pretty interesting video about the number of deaths in World War 2, by country.
“How Facebook is Stealing Billions of Views”
I agree with all of this. The quick version, for people who don’t want to take time to watch the video is this:
Creators put videos on YouTube, and they get ad-revenue based on views.
Other people/companies/etc take popular videos from YouTube and post them (in Facebook video format) onto their own Facebook page.
Creators don’t like this, because it deprives them of ad-revenue, popularity, and allows other people (on Facebook) to get the benefits of their videos (growing their own brand, increased popularity of their Facebook page, allowing them to sell other products, etc).
Here’s the Frank Green article mentioned at the end of the video: https://medium.com/@hankgreen/theft-lies-and-facebook-video-656b0ffed369
Empires of Steel, Let’s Play Video
The YouTuber, Sabouts, has put up a Let’s Play video for Empires of Steel. Check it out:
Aliens are Jerks [Video]
I finally put up a video of my Android game, Aliens are Jerks. The sound isn’t that great, thanks to the fact that it records sound from the game using the external microphone – which results in really low quality audio recording. Ah well. Check it out in the Android store here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.atomicboy.aliensarejerks
Cinematic Game Trailers versus Gameplay [Video]
I thought this was pretty funny – putting cinematic game trailers next to the actual gameplay of the same game.
This one is good, too.
Southpark Explains Freemium Mobile Games
Yup. I agree with all of this. Southpark does a good job of explaining how freemium works. Recently, I heard a guy explain how much money he earned from various business models (free but with advertisements, pay for the app, freemium), and he said that freemium was the clear winner when it came to earning revenue, so I can’t entirely blame creators for using that business model.
Bro Force!
I’m posting this because I just think the idea behind this game is hilarious. It’s a side-scrolling shooter like Metal Slug or Contra, except you’re playing as an famous hypermasculine action hero (Rambo, Mr.T, etc). I also think it’s a good lesson in how a good game concept can be viral.
It also reminded me of this video, which is also pretty cool. (It gets progressively more surreal.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuBhHxdMwgg