For Vellfire (nsfw)
http://offthemountain.tumblr.com/post/9424138657

this is what you thing of me

Ragnar please write me a sng from deep within your ert.

? ? ? ! ! ! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV99QgZ4a-k

? ? ? ! ! ! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV99QgZ4a-k

this is wrong for the exact same reasons child pornography is wrong

the starmaze thing is fantastic. be sure to poke around the rest of the cartania site for a special easter egg ;^)
 
also hey it turns out that peter gabriel of genesis designed a videogame http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1z58MPo7ic 1:15
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQL7QcvfnyU&feature=related
i would play a myst game which suddenly burst into heavily processed peter gabriel solo works at inopportune moments
 
PYST is a full-length MYST parody with guest appearance by John Goodman (!!!!!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf8jyHt44Xw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fig2ZVaYIM&feature=related if you have wondered what MYST would be like if the peaceful world was replaced by a smouldering trash heap then this is the game for you
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB3F059khLE&feature=related barf im a toad but i like the colours and the music
 
http://www.macintoshgarden.org/games/the-bitter-end kind of relieved to see this was made in 1999 for some reason
 
http://www.macintoshgarden.org/games/daedalus-encounter-the "In this new form, Casey possesses limited ability to interact with his environment, his only way to communicate being through a yes/no interface and by emitting light pulses."
 
http://www.macintoshgarden.org/games/tron-96 not much to say but i really like the screenshot they picked
 
http://www.macintoshgarden.org/games/lonely-time no joke here i just thought this looks cool. hey theres a youtube too http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSL1AKNW4aE i like the gui [call] [laugh] [cry] [angry]
 
http://www.macintoshgarden.org/games/samurai by the same developer, also sounds cool and surprisingly open. even better gui. [bow] [laugh] [cry] [angry] [surprise] [zen] . dev's site is here i guess! looks like he's made a bunch more games! they are probably indie game canon but its all news to me.
 
http://www.macintoshgarden.org/games/karth-of-the-jungle-i-ii aiiiieee
 

 
 
 
 
i was actually gonna post a picture of a cool stained glass window by Harry Clarke i saw a few days back but its not on the web anywhere for some reason. he did some good illustrations of edgar allen poe stories too idk they are maybe too goth-y (or even... amanoesque..) for anyone here but i liked them as being in maybe the same mold as those old russian folktale drawings that chef posted a while back. http://picasaweb.google.com/118001395186713394923/HarryClarke#
 

 

 

 
jim woodring...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AwJ735GK3Y

cube time/fingal time

we got pyst when it came out, might have been in a cereal box. I think I beat it in about two sittings. I remember it being Myst, but destroyed by tourism and poor leadership.

FF8 is like as incoherent as FF7 except it has a really uniform, expensive look instead of FF7's aesthetic schizophrenia. What the FUCK was FF8 about? Insane teen melodrama fantasy about falling in love while you're in training in one of multiple(?) super teen mercenary organizations that have giant mobile city bases and operate outside the bounds of any world governments? Being a sulky brooding sociopath, cradling the emotionally broken girl who desires you for perplexing reasons while you drift on a spaceship you just cleansed of Xenomorphs?
Like, everything in the game is insane nonsense that operates purely on the level of adolescents trying to figure out how their confusing hormone storm plugs into a worldview based on a barely comprehended sense of geopolitics in the Adult World and crazy fantasy fiction. It's like Teen MegaForce. Hack FF VIII into Teen MegaForce.

i wish i had an answer. its just completely bizarre. even right off the bat its just nuts. "hey i know you're like 17 and training to become some sort of soldier for a very unclear organisation governed by some strange pod creature, but if you're gonna use the training centre watch out, we have giant murderous plants and fucking dinosaurs roaming freely. oh, and to pass your exam you're going to have to defeat a giant flaming beast"

i really like the technological aspect of it though. i think at one point, when galbadia is trying to set up a live stream or something and they say "this will broadcast via radio waves because everything is viewed online and in HD these days"

but i completely agree, its a very surreal Teen Drama in a world of nonsense but expressed in a very polished format. i dont really understand it especially when it gets to like SPACE and TIME COMPRESSION and the whole of that really futuristic city (esthar? where you had to pass through some sort of ice canyon and walk on an invisible platform to enter) its just bewildering.

brb converting cards into items and then items into magic

the implication is that they developed online HD broadcasts because they suddenly weren't able to use radio waves anymore, and it's p. cool that they thought about that

it is very bewildering, but i guess it's meant to be. immersion into the head of squall as his life collapses. whatever