This is what is new or imporant today: Follow the Commentarium Twitter Feed to get our reactions to the Academy Awards live. Recently at Commentarium: Can Lost pull it together? Made some progress on Phenomenon 32. The new save system is almost ready. That’s it, really.
I want to thank our friend Sebastian for bringing this divinely inspired song to my attention. Seriously: this is the kind of overwhelmingly brilliant work of art that gives me hope for mankind and the universe. This song is a thousand times closer to the divine than any work of …
I’ve been reading a fair bit of academic material in preparation for a long and detailed Commentarium article on Avatar, and while reading about The Vanishing American I suddenly realized something: the recent ranting in the German media (particularly Focus magazine) about how “the modern Greeks are not real Greeks, …
We are very pleased to announce that Commentarium.net, our new film & television website, is up and running. It’s going to be a great deal of fun – for more details about what kind of website we’re envisioning, you can read the first post, or you could skip straight ahead …
Glad you asked. Quite a bit, actually. Tomorrow I’ll start working on Phenomenon 32 again, in the hopes of getting version 0.9 out soon. I’m typing the parts of my novel that aren’t typed, and ordering many of my novel-related files. This may not seem like much, but it’s actually …
Because some things are so bizarre and wonderful that they never grow old. Interesting updates tomorrow. Now watch, listen, and sing along in your head.
I’m in pain. One pain is the pain of my wisdom tooth that was recently taken out. The amount of pain comes and goes with the drugs, and I’m feeling more than a little woozy, but it’s better than it was on the first day. Still, it will take some …
My wisdom tooth is out. It hurts and it bleeds and I look like a zombie. And it took forever. My system was in such distress that it just ate the anaesthetics up, and everything remained sensitive and painful. I could’ve run a marathon, but they just couldn’t get my …
I have updated the about page! Finally you can read everything you always wanted to know about your favourite person called Jonas Kyratzes! Read the ludicrous biography today! Coming soon: the pretentious biography. Only available on this blog! Get yours today!
There is no definition of computer games. There in no such thing as art games. Games are art. Gameplay is not the opposite of storytelling. Graphics, music and level design are storytelling. Mediocrity is not balance. Abstraction is a tool. Only specificity gives meaning to art. Interactivity is not abstraction. …
