http://cellar.org/iotd.php?threadid=17650 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truss_bridge 

These are some great (and long.. over 2 hours each!) videos of Warren Spector interviewing a bunch of game industry people for a master class at U Texas.
info: http://junctionpoint.wordpress.com/2008/03/03/master-class-videos/
mirror of videos: http://www.ninjadodo.net/temp/spector/

I watched Hal Barwood, Richard Garriott, and Tim Willits which were all quite interesting. Willits kept calling Quake a "mess", and seemed to like Q2 more. 

http://www.intothepixel.com/artwork/2008_contest_winners.asp

Some great artwork by game developers, very nice to look at!

Sneak peak of a possible theme in HL2 ep3 (could perhaps be seen as a spoiler). 

it showing how fucking retarded he really is. 

It's awesome. He's awesome. 

The Death Star '49
http://saucers.greyfalcon.us/MECHANIX%20ILLUSTRATED.htm 

Have a sixties military laboratory environment?
http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4308/p111a.jpg 

No-One Lives Forever
I guess. 

seem a bit 60's techno retro. I only recall a few labs in No One Lives Forever (btw, it was awesome), a sub base in the second, a chemical lab in the first, but neither had much technical detail. Most of the places were groovy instead, like the club in West Berlin, the shag carpet and corkscrew stairs in one villain's hidden private quarters -- good stuff. 

For real
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RecckjgLyqo&feature=related 

http://illicitohio.illicitohio.com/tyson.htm 

http://www.sundayherald.com/news/heraldnews/display.var.2403692.0.vampires_the_celtic_connection.php 

http://www.wired.com/gaming/gamingreviews/magazine/16-08/pl_games 

Neat. I love the idea of procedurally created things, because they can come up with content you may never have thought of or just provide a feeling of 'randomness' within limits. I'm a big fan of controlled chaos, and procedurally generated stuff fits in so snuggly with that.

Cool find. 

i've wanted to make a game with proceduraly generated worlds for a while. Partly because it's a cool artistic/programming blend, and partly because 1-man teams can't rely on lots of content creation. 

As game worlds require increasingly more content, teams using procedural generation can (arguably) always be smaller than teams that do everything "b hand" as it were.

I'm curious, where is the boundary between procedural generation and just really good tools? 

 

that's what i was going to say -- the ideal tools from an efficiency standpoint are probably using some procedural generation layered on top of designed content. 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/byrdhouse/sets/72157606292482848/ 

http://www.stevebulman.f9.co.uk/cumbria/images/penrithcastle.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2063/2021784200_caa84a15c7.jpg?v=0

http://www.english-lakes.com/images/lakes_5/penrith_4.jpg

http://www.visitcumbria.com/pen/penrithbeacon-31127b.jpg

http://www.visitcumbria.com/pen/penrithbeacon-4585a.jpg

http://www.english-lakes.com/images/lakes_5/penrith_2.jpg

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.visitcumbria.com/pen/penrith-1544b.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.visitcumbria.com/pen/penrith.htm&h=399&w=640&sz=77&hl=en&start=7&tbnid=qZDgWTXMleno7M:&tbnh=85&tbnw=137&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dthe%2Bbeacon%2Bpenrith%2Bcumbria%26gbv%3D2%26ndsp%3D21%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN

This is where I dwell. See the last link - there is an aerial photo showing the bulk of the town:
http://www.visitcumbria.com/pen/penrith-0393b.jpg
Well there is a group of tress n bushes just left of the middle of the photo. I am just behind those trees right now!!!

I was up near "the beacon" monument just half an hour ago, scrabbling around on my own in the bushes..... 

http://web.archive.org/web/20060214091217/http://battletech-movie.com/html/tutorials/comments_about_greebling.php 

We need more Greebles!!!
Note to self: Put lots of greebles in next map! Like the "superpipes" tex from Doom3! 

Round 1

Fight! 

Nurbles