Nobuooo 5.09: Monsters Deluxe
June 9th, 2009 Posted in Music, Videogames | No Comments »
Nobuooo 5.09: Monsters Deluxe from Jeriaska on Vimeo.
Nobuooo 4.09: GDC Mosaic
April 30th, 2009 Posted in Music, Videogames | No Comments »
Nobuooo 4.09: GDC Mosaic from Jeriaska on Vimeo.
Nobuooo 3.09: Shadow of Tenchu
April 27th, 2009 Posted in Music, Videogames | No Comments »
Nobuooo 3.09: Shadow of Tenchu from Jeriaska on Vimeo.
Gregory Stock: To Upgrade is Human
April 19th, 2009 Posted in Futurism | No Comments »This is Greg Stock speaking at TED in 2003. He is one of the most enjoyable positive futurists to listen to, and presented at last year’s Methuselah Foundation event “Aging: The Disease, the Cure, the Implications,” which I filmed and edited.
Follow Nobuooo on Twitter
April 8th, 2009 Posted in Music | No Comments »
Nobuooo is a videogame music news aggregator that I co-founded. Every month I post a video on the subject to this site, and the rest of the time there are terrific articles from all sorts of perspectives on audio in games, such as podcasts, music samples from around the web, and discussions like today’s interview with Kenji Ito. Following Nobuooo on Twitter is now a way to casually keep tabs on the site, and can be paired with the RSS feed for an unparalleled VGM awareness combo.
Yet More BIL
April 7th, 2009 Posted in BIL, Futurism | 2 Comments »
Unconference organizer Bill Erickson has constructed a Media Page on the BIL website where videos from the February conference can be viewed, rated and commented on.
Included are newly edited videos on the Automotive X-Prize by Eric Boyd, Practical Applications of Technology by Heather Vescent, and the Evils of Cloud Computing by Electronic Frontier Foundation chairman Brad Templeton. There are also a few other talks that I filmed as well, like Aubrey de Grey’s SENS Progress Worldwide and Peter Voss Towards Real AI.
Surely this must mark the end of BIL 2009 videos? Au contraire, mon frère… there are yet more on the way.
Google develops CADIE
April 1st, 2009 Posted in AGI-09, Artificial Intelligence, Futurism | No Comments »
If you’ve been following my blog, you know that I often mention Google’s Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity project. This is a research effort led by Moshe Looks, who developed the meta-optimizing semantic evolutionary search (MOSES) that is utilized by the Novamente cognition engine. He spoke about both at the Second Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, footage of which I am currently editing for viewing online.
Today the company has finally made their findings public, and they are nothing short of a full realization of “artificial general intelligence.” To see the technical specifications of CADIE, along with a demonstration of the intelligent entity in motion, check out the below link. It’s a powerful demonstration of the most recent impacts of accelerating technological change.
The Maw DLC
March 30th, 2009 Posted in Interviews | No Comments »
The latest interview for GameSetWatch and Gamasutra is with Twisted Pixel CEO Mike Wilford, who I met at the Penny Arcade Expo last year.
The Maw was the PAX 10 finalist to receive the audience award among a host of memorable games including Audiosurf and Sushi Bar Samurai. The story of the array of independent game titles at PAX and their musical scores is recounted in a video I made called “Sound Current: The PAX 10.”
Mike agreed to an interview on the downloadable content in The Maw, which comes in the form of three full levels interspersed within the core levels of the game. The new stages were dubbed “Deleted Scenes,” which unfortunately some people took the wrong way. It’s explained in the interview. There’s also some informative talk about Winifred Phillips, who composed the music.
GameSetInterview: ‘The Maw’s Deleted Scenes - A Twisted Pixel Approach to DLC’
GDC in Pictures
March 24th, 2009 Posted in Videogames | No Comments »
These are pictures from the Game Developers Conference, which will be updated daily until Friday night.
Castlevania Judgment Soundtrack Interview
March 21st, 2009 Posted in Interviews, Music, Videogames | No Comments »
An interview with Hideki Sakamoto and Yasushi Asada on the Castlevania Judgment Original Soundtrack is now available on GameSetWatch. For more discussions on the music of Noisycroak, see the links below the Yakuza 2 and Echochrome thumbnails on Game Design Current, which point to corresponding Siliconera articles in English.
