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A Profound Waste Of Time
''A Profound Waste of Time'' is a British contemporary video game magazine. Crowdfunded through Kickstarters, the magazine is self-published by freelance graphic designer Caspian Whistler. The campaign for the first issue in 2016 raised £39,000; only two issues have been published, and a third is being crowdfunded. ''A Profound Waste of Time'' has received positive reviews from journalists. Publication history Freelance graphic designer Caspian Whistler began making video game zines while studying at University of the Arts London. Exposed to many quality print publications for other areas of the arts, Whistler felt that video game magazines were "bleak" in comparison. He was inspired to create "something celebratory and optimistic" to recapture his love for video games. In an interview with '' Creative Review'', Whistler said that he intended to move away "more reactionary" and mainstream aspects of video game journalism such as review scores and exclusives through a print ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Video Game Magazines
This is a list of video game magazines. The primary focus of the magazines in this list is or was video game journalism for at least part of their run. For general computing magazines that may also cover games, consult the list of computer magazines. Overview Journalist reporting and evaluation of video games in periodicals began from the late 1970s to 1980 in general coin-operated industry magazines like ''Play Meter'' and ''RePlay'', home entertainment magazines like ''Video'', as well as magazines focused on computing and new information technologies like ''InfoWorld'' or ''Popular Electronics''. However, dedicated magazines focusing primarily on video game journalism wouldn't appear until late in 1981, when several magazines were launched independently of each other at about the same time. ''Computer and Video Games'' premiered in the U.K. in November 1981. It was soon followed by ''Electronic Games'' in the US, founded by Bill Kunkel, Arnie Katz and Joyce Worley, who had pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Destructoid
''Destructoid'' is a website that was founded as a video game-focused blog in March 2006 by Yanier Gonzalez, a Cuban-American cartoonist and author. Enthusiast Gaming acquired the website in 2017, and sold it to Gamurs Group in 2022. History ''Destructoid'' was owned by Yanier "Niero" Gonzalez so that he could attend the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in 2006. After being rejected, Gonzalez began writing original editorials and drawing cartoons which were picked up by established gaming blogs like ''Joystiq'' and '' Kotaku''. In 2007 the site relaunched with user blogs, forums, and a team of contributors. Yanier's blog was moved off the home page in favor of a staff-edited, multi-author format. Similar to ''IGN'', ''Destructoid'' offers free registration and readers can submit off-homepage blogs. After E3, Gonzalez appeared at the press conference dressed as Mr. Destructoid (''Destructoid'' robot mascot, shown on logos and promotional material) to hand out promotional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toby Fox
Robert F. Fox (born October 11, 1991), known professionally as Toby Fox (previously Toby "Radiation" Fox), is an American video game developer and video game composer. He is known for developing the role-playing video games ''Undertale'' and ''Deltarune'' for which the former garnered acclaim and he received nominations for a British Academy Game Award and three Game Awards. Fox's early work consisted primarily of composing music, notably doing so for the webcomic ''Homestuck'', and, following the success of ''Undertale'', he went on to compose music for a number of other independent video games. Other notable works include contributing to the soundtracks of ''Super Smash Bros. Ultimate'' and multiple ''Pokémon'' video games. Career Early work and composing Toby Fox's earliest well-known work is his "EarthBound Halloween Hack", a Halloween-themed ROM hack of the 1994 Super NES game ''EarthBound'' released in 2008. He then moved onto composing a variety of music for Andr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashly Burch
Ashly Burch (born June 19, 1990) is an American voice actress, singer, and television writer. She is known for her roles as Aloy in ''Horizon Zero Dawn'' and ''Horizon Forbidden West'', Mel in ''The Last of Us Part II'', Tiny Tina in the ''Borderlands (series), Borderlands'' series, Miss Pauling in ''Team Fortress 2'', Dark Willow in ''Dota 2'', the web series ''Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin'?'', Chloe Price in ''Life Is Strange (video game), Life Is Strange'', Rowdy from ''Fallout 4'', Mayuri Shiina from ''Steins;Gate (TV series), Steins;Gate'', Sasha Braus from ''Attack on Titan,'' Ray and Desiree from ''Fortnite: Save the World'', Viper from ''Valorant'', Parvati Holcomb from ''The Outer Worlds'', Enid from ''OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes, OK K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes'', Molly from ''The Ghost and Molly McGee'', and Ash Graven from ''Final Space''. Most recently, she voiced Hawkeye (Kate Bishop), Kate Bishop in the "Taking A.I.M." downloadable content from ''Marvel's Avengers (video game), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Downwell (video Game)
''Downwell'' is a video game that is a combination of a vertically scrolling shooter and platform game with elements of a roguelike. It was developed by Ojiro Fumoto and published by Devolver Digital for iOS and Microsoft Windows in October 2015, for Android in January 2016, and for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita in May 2016. A Nintendo Switch version was released in January 2019. British studio Red Phantom Games developed the Switch and PlayStation ports. ''Downwell'' uses a palette of four colors, which default to black background and white outlines, with red as a highlight for gems, enemies and other important items, and blue for water environment features. The exact colors can be changed through unlockable in-game palettes. The art style and underground level design have been compared to '' Spelunky'' and ''Cave Story''. Gameplay In ''Downwell'', players control a "curious man" named Welltaro, who is at the local park one night when he decides to explore the depths ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennaton Games
Dennaton Games is an independent Swedish video game developer founded by programmer Jonatan Söderström and artist Dennis Wedin. The company name is a portmanteau of the founders' names. History Jonatan Söderström is an indie game developer who previously developed games in the Game Maker engine as a hobby. Söderström said in an interview that he needed to actually start making money off of creating games, so he decided to undertake a more sizeable project. He contacted his friend Dennis Wedin, an artist, and together they formed Dennaton Games, after which they began the development of ''Hotline Miami'', followed by ''Hotline Miami 2 ''Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number'' is a top-down shooter video game co-developed by Dennaton Games and Abstraction Games, and published by Devolver Digital. It takes place before and after the events of its predecessor, ''Hotline Miami'', as it ...''. On New Years Eve, December 2020, Jonatan Söderström posted a tweet mentioning Denna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rami Ismail
Rami Ismail (born 30 October 1988) is a Dutch independent video game developer and spokesperson within the video game industry on the topics of diversity and reaching out to game developers from developing countries. He co-founded the studio Vlambeer with Jan Willem Nijman in 2010, where they developed games such as ''Ridiculous Fishing'', ''Luftrausers'', and ''Nuclear Throne''. Early life Ismail was born in the Netherlands to an Egyptian father and Dutch mother, and was raised as a Muslim. Vlambeer Ismail had attended the Utrecht School of the Arts where he met Jan Willem Nijman. The two paired up during a game development course, producing what they thought was a potentially marketable game. When the school demanded rights to the game, both dropped out of the school and founded Vlambeer in 2010 so they could continue developing games without this type of interference. While many of Vlambeer's games were critically well received, the studio was propelled by the overnight su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Refenes
Tommy Refenes is an American video game designer and programmer, best known for his work on the game '' Super Meat Boy'', a platformer he co-created with designer Edmund McMillen. Early life Refenes began programming at the age of eleven, and has been doing so professionally since the age of 18, initially contracting for a website whose owner had threatened to sue him over a parody Flash game he had made. He dropped out of North Carolina State University; he later told gaming blog Brutal Gamer "if you want to be a programmer, do not go to college." He is also Type 1 Diabetic, as revealed in Indie Game The Movie. Career Refenes started at Seventy - Two DPI in August 2001 where he managed their website and servers. In August 2003 he was hired by Learning Station, where he developed server software and applications in Flash, C++, PHP, and ASP. In July 2005 he decided to shift to the computer game field and went to work for the now defunct Streamline Studios, where he assisted in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thermochromic Ink
Thermochromic ink (also called thermochromatic ink) is a type of dye that changes color when temperatures increase or decrease. Often used in the manufacture of many toys or product packaging, as well as thermometers. Thermochromic ink can also turn transparent when heat is applied; an example of this type of thermochromic ink is found on corners of an examination mark sheet. This proves that the sheet has not been edited or photocopied, and also on certain pizza boxes to show the temperature of the product. Use on packaging can be to detect temperature history during shipping and to indicate proper heating in an oven. Examples On June 20, 2017, the United States Postal Service released the first application of thermochromic ink to postage stamps in its Total Eclipse of the Sun Forever stamp to commemorate the solar eclipse of August 21, 2017. When pressed with a finger, body heat turns the black circle in the center of the stamp into an image of the full moon. The stamp imag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phosphorescence
Phosphorescence is a type of photoluminescence related to fluorescence. When exposed to light (radiation) of a shorter wavelength, a phosphorescent substance will glow, absorbing the light and reemitting it at a longer wavelength. Unlike fluorescence, a phosphorescent material does not immediately reemit the radiation it absorbs. Instead, a phosphorescent material absorbs some of the radiation energy and reemits it for a much longer time after the radiation source is removed. In a general sense, there is no distinct boundary between the emission times of fluorescence and phosphorescence (i.e.: if a substance glows under a black light it is generally considered fluorescent, and if it glows in the dark it is often simply called phosphorescent). In a modern, scientific sense, the phenomena can usually be classified by the three different mechanisms that produce the light, and the typical timescales during which those mechanisms emit light. Whereas fluorescent materials stop emit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shovel Knight
''Shovel Knight'' is a platform game, platform video game developed and published by Yacht Club Games. Development was crowdfunded and the game was released for Nintendo 3DS, Wii U, and Windows in June 2014. It was ported to OS X and Linux in September 2014, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, and Xbox One in April 2015, Amazon Fire TV in September 2015, and Nintendo Switch in March 2017. ''Shovel Knight'' is inspired by gameplay and graphics of platformer games developed for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The game received critical acclaim, with critics considering it one of the List of video games considered the best, greatest video games ever made. With the release of additional campaigns, the original story received the retronym ''Shovel of Hope''. The full game was released in December 2019 as ''Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove'', which includes three other campaigns ''Plague of Shadows'', ''Specter of Torment'', and ''King of Cards'', along with multiplayer fig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Screenshot
screenshot (also known as screen capture or screen grab) is a digital image that shows the contents of a computer display. A screenshot is created by the operating system or software running on the device powering the display. Additionally, screenshots can be captured by an external camera, using photography to capture contents on the screen. Screenshot techniques Digital techniques The first screenshots were created with the first interactive computers around 1960. Through the 1980s, computer operating systems did not universally have built-in functionality for capturing screenshots. Sometimes text-only screens could be dumped to a text file, but the result would only capture the content of the screen, not the appearance, nor were graphics screens preservable this way. Some systems had a BSAVE command that could be used to capture the area of memory where screen data was stored, but this required access to a BASIC prompt. Systems with composite video output could be conn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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