http://suttree.com Beatniks with better clothing. Sat, 03 Jul 2010 22:25:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "The next real literary 'rebels' in this country might well emerge as some weird bunch of anti-rebels, born oglers who dare somehow to back away from ironic watching, who have the childish gall actually to endorse and instantiate single-entendre principles. Who treat of plain old untrendy human troubles and emotions ... http://suttree.com/2010/07/03/over-and-over/ I talked at Playful '09 about wanting to play a game of Kes. In turn, that led to an investigation of storytelling in film and television. Which, in turn, led to a desire to construct a playable world from the narrative of a series drama like Friends, or a serial ... http://suttree.com/2009/11/03/fictive-worlds/ Reading the recent game reviews for Velvet Assasin it's hard not to feel roundly depressed. The story of Violette Szabo is compelling, but even in the well known territory of a World War Shooter the designers seem to have failed to make anything from such a good story. Given that ... http://suttree.com/2009/05/31/lets-play-a-game-of-kes/ Following on from my earlier extensions for Mozilla Jetpack (Recently Closed Tabs and Keyboard Link Navigation), if you have Jetpack installed, you should be prompted to install my Quick Launch extension. Once you have it installed (no restart required), then you'll start to notice some favicons appear in the Firefox ... http://suttree.com/2009/05/28/jetpack-quick-launch/ Inspired by Vimperator, another Mozilla Jetpack plugin! If you have Jetpack installed, you should be prompted to install my Keyboard Link Navigation extension for adding hotkeys to every link on a page (all in 46 lines of javascript). If you haven't got it installed, here's what it looks like: With this plugin ... http://suttree.com/2009/05/27/jetpack-keyboard-link-navigation/ Briefly, I've been experimenting with Mozilla Jetpack and it's rather easy to use. If you have Jetpack installed, you should be prompted to install my Recently Closed Tabs extension for adding favicons to the status bar to give you a sense of where you recently were on the Internet (all in ... http://suttree.com/2009/05/26/jetpack-recently-closed-tabs/     As a result of a number of different threads, I ended up playing ForumWarz again. The in-game sTalk is a scripted, conversation interface dressed up to look like an IM client, in this case Google's gTalk, and the interactions it affords are varied enough to avoid seeming overly forced. Of more ... http://suttree.com/2009/04/13/building-a-conversational-interface/ Late last year I presented to the Guardian newspaper on the subject of Casual Games and Passive Gaming. Casual Games are addictive and surface based - easy to learn, hard to master or indeed not worth mastering. Passive games can be used to add depth to casual game mechanics. ... http://suttree.com/2009/03/30/virtual-depth-and-casual-mmos/ What's the next big thing on the internet? In one to two years? It could be anything - social, mobile, games, business, news, comics, films, etc In five to ten years? It'll easily be the reversal of online media onto print. Disposable, printable newspapers, forums, reviews, local gossip, etc. However, the real excitement ... http://suttree.com/2009/03/23/casual-vs-the-long-tail/ I completed forgot about Supple. "Supple, a soap-opera type social interaction game, which is planned to be the released as a series of episodes with advanced features and additional characters and narratives included with each episode." "Supple, is one of the most popular downloadable games of 2008. The testimonials and game reviews ... http://suttree.com/2009/03/16/sit-com-casual-games/