Pag on Games

I tried my luck at the Great Canadian Video Game Competition but my project wasn’t selected for funding. I suspect that my lack of a team was the main reason — chicken and egg problem, that: you need money to pay a team, and you need a team to get money.

So there I am, with the most kick-ass game design I’ve ever come up with, but nothing to do with it. Too bad there’s no way to sell game designs to developers and publishers (why that is, I’ll never understand).

Oh well, I guess I’ll put my “Will Design For Food” sign back up.

Not quite game related, but Microsoft’s research labs have released an online interactive demo of a very cool piece of software called Photosynth. From the site:

The Photosynth Technology Preview is a taste of the newest - and, we hope, most exciting - way to view photos on a computer. Our software takes a large collection of photos of a place or an object, analyzes them for similarities, and then displays the photos in a reconstructed three-dimensional space, showing you how each one relates to the next.

In our collections, you can access gigabytes of photos in seconds, view a scene from nearly any angle, find similar photos with a single click, and zoom in to make the smallest detail as big as your monitor.