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Disintegration of Memory / p55-Echo release

By Jonathan Beilin | Published: April 27, 2011

Final video: http://vimeo.com/22947080 p55-Echo draft: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iYSa7Wt_ZY p55-Echo code: https://github.com/dongle/p55-echo Tools for final video: Photoshop, Twixtor, After Effects, PaulStretch

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Touch-based Game Interaction Design Considerations

By Jonathan Beilin | Published: March 20, 2011

A few days ago, Bennett Foddy of QWOP fame asked me what my favorite iPad games were. I unsarcastically replied with Chicanery (a game he made with Auntie Pixelante), before stammering about non-game ‘toys’, ‘art games’ that barely qualify as games, and simple iPhone ports. There are good games on the iPad, yet very few […]

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Are you sure you want to start a company? (A Letter to Y Combinator Applicants)

By Jonathan Beilin | Published: March 18, 2011

INTRO Opinions are like earholes  –  everyone has two of them  –  so don’t take this as straight facts. I’ll gloss the obvious stuff about building a founding team: everyone has to be smart and at least one person on your team has to be able to build stuff. That said, it’s OK to have a person on your […]

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Carles is the Warhol of Twitter

By Jonathan Beilin | Published: January 20, 2011

Playing games with the form and function of Twitter is nothing new. Tim Waters started the ubiquitous “Sometimes I just want to copy someone else’s status… ” meme, which has already lived several cycles on both Twitter and Facebook, and still reawakens every couple months. Jonah Peretti created a “Choose Your Own Adventure” experience via a […]

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Uncharted’s Cinematic Camera

By Jonathan Beilin | Published: January 19, 2011

“Cinematic” has appeared in the marketing materials for games for years, seeing particular growth beginning with the advent of the CD-ROM. At first, cinematic referred merely to the presence of live-action or CG full-motion-video cutscenes  –  having a closer, non-fixed perspective combined with a dialogue soundtrack was sufficient for a game to be perceived as having some […]

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Futilitrist art

By Jonathan Beilin | Published: December 1, 2010

Sometime in the last couple months I developed an intense loathing towards my (past, present, and future) writing and started smearing pigments on objects instead. The “best” works are appearing on a tumblr because I have strong feelings regarding individual creation and sharing and putting art into a communal space. In other news, if you’d […]

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Silicon Valley Blues, part 1

By Jonathan Beilin | Published: September 9, 2010

It is with some degree of something that I find myself in Silicon Valley back in the fold of the games industry. Given my philosophical orientation, this is akin to being a crack dealer, albeit without the physical risks (and, for the time being, also without the monetary rewards). But it’s an enjoyable task, and […]

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Paternalistic “feminism”

By Jonathan Beilin | Published: July 5, 2010

RT @(redacted): Most girls that I know or have met look prettier without makeup. Just sayin’, ladies… I understand that tweet was well intentioned, but it may as well have read: HEY LADIES MY SENSE OF AESTHETICS HAS RESULTED IN A NEW DICTUM FOR YOUR APPEARANCE Hey guys, how about we stop assuming that women’s looks […]

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Thoughts on Apple Post-WWDC 2010

By Jonathan Beilin | Published: June 28, 2010

It’s half an hour before Steve Jobs’ keynote on a brisk Monday morning in San Francisco. The line of people anxious to see the latest Apple products wraps around a city block, the excitement driven partly because these products now provide a lifeline and an income source to thousands of independent developers, and partly from […]

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Videogame Mashup: Pong Invaders

By Jonathan Beilin | Published: April 6, 2010

A recent class assignment involved creating a two-player game. I liked the idea of videogame mashups (a friend made Joust Pong) and wanted to experiment with the idea of different rulesets per player, thus Pong Invaders was born, a game where one player controls the space invaders while another player controls the iconic pong paddle […]

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