I don't have cable right now so I'm rewatching old shows and movies. A lot of them are animated. Such is my way. I'd like to have a nobler reason for rewatching them--something like when James 
Let's say you're the newly-sentient internet. How would you decipher
the meaning of all the bits and bytes whizzing past you? And what about
the real world outside your electronic realm?
Former Comics Editor, Guy Leshinski
has very kindly given us permission to reprint a prophetic interview
with Bryan Lee O'Malley in 2005. Will Bryan Lee O'Malley attain the
Holy Grail of cartoonists? As Bryan says, "We'll see..."
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The Romance of Indie Games
I came across Ernest Adams as the writer of a column for the excellent gamasutra.com, a website dedicated to "the art and science of making games." Adams' column, The Designer's Notebook, discusses some of the arcane and complex issues facing game designers in language understandable to people outside the inner circle, managing to be rigorous and accessible at the same time. His critical eye on the industry he's spent 14 years in allows him to raise questions like "How can we introduce sexuality into computer games?" and "Why are most black videogame characters rappers or athletes?"
I met up with him for lunch at Saving Grace and he answered a few of my questions about Dogma 2001, a tongue-in-cheek call to the videogame avant-garde that was a reference to Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg's movie manifesto, Dogme 95. Dogma 2001 requires the designer to submit to rules such as "There shall be no knights, elves, dwarves or dragons" and furthermore bans cut-scenes and first-person shooters.
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The Romance of Indie Games
I came across Ernest Adams as the writer of a column for the excellent gamasutra.com, a website dedicated to "the art and science of making games." Adams' column, The Designer's Notebook, discusses some of the arcane and complex issues facing game designers in language understandable to people outside the inner circle, managing to be rigorous and accessible at the same time. His critical eye on the industry he's spent 14 years in allows him to raise questions like "How can we introduce sexuality into computer games?" and "Why are most black videogame characters rappers or athletes?"I met up with him for lunch at Saving Grace and he answered a few of my questions about Dogma 2001, a tongue-in-cheek call to the videogame avant-garde that was a reference to Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg's movie manifesto, Dogme 95. Dogma 2001 requires the designer to submit to rules such as "There shall be no knights, elves, dwarves or dragons" and furthermore bans cut-scenes and first-person shooters.
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