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Sander Cohen
Sander Cohen is a character in the '' BioShock'' video game series. He first appears in the first title of the series, developed by 2K Boston, as a celebrated polymath of the underwater city of Rapture who has a deranged and sadistic personality. The player-controlled protagonist Jack is forced to help Cohen with the creation of a macabre sculpture, built around pictures of Cohen's former proteges whom he kills and photographs on his behalf, before he grants passage through his domain Fort Frolic for the player character to complete his objectives. Sander Cohen makes a further appearance as a major character in ''Episode One'' of '' BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea'', a downloadable content story expansion for '' BioShock Infinite'' which sets up the events of ''BioShock''. He is voiced by T. Ryder Smith for all appearances. Aspects of Sander Cohen's characterization are based on several real-world historical figures. The development team for ''BioShock 2'' had considered reintro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BioShock (series)
''BioShock'' is a Retrofuturism, retrofuturistic video game series created by Ken Levine (game developer), Ken Levine, published by 2K Games and developed by several studios, including Irrational Games and 2K Marin. The ''BioShock'' games combine first-person shooter and Role-playing video game, role-playing elements, giving the player freedom for how to approach combat and other situations, and are considered part of the immersive sim genre. Additionally, the series is notable for exploring philosophical and moral concepts with a strong in-game narrative influenced by concepts such as Objectivism, total utilitarianism, and American exceptionalism. The series consists of three main games. ''BioShock'' (2007) and ''BioShock 2'' (2010) take place in the 1960s in the fictional underwater city of Rapture (BioShock), Rapture. ''BioShock Infinite'' (2013) is thematically and narratively tied to the first games, but takes place in 1912 aboard the floating city of Columbia. After ''Infin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Ryan (BioShock)
Andrew Ryan is a fictional character in the ''BioShock'' video game series developed by Irrational Games. He serves as the primary antagonist of the first half of the first ''BioShock'' and a minor character in its sequel, ''BioShock 2'' and its prequel, '' BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea''. Ryan is portrayed as an idealistic business magnate in the 1940s and 1950s; seeking to avoid scrutiny from governments and other oversight, he ordered the secret construction of an underwater city, Rapture. When civil war sees Ryan's vision for a utopia in Rapture collapse into dystopia, he descends into reclusiveness and paranoia. After his victory in the war, he becomes increasingly ruthless in his control over the remaining inhabitants of the city. Ryan was created by Irrational Games' Ken Levine, based on figures like Ayn Rand, Howard Hughes, Charles Foster Kane, and Walt Disney. The character has received significant praise from critics, with ''Electronic Gaming Monthly'' ranking him n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Game Maker's Toolkit
''Game Maker's Toolkit'' (''GMTK'') is a video game analysis series created and presented by Mark Brown, a British video game journalist. The show examines and explains various aspects of video game design and is supposed to help viewers consider the design of games that they play and to encourage developers to improve their craft. There are also more focused stems of the series, discussing issues of accessibility in video games or level design. The first ''GMTK'' video was published in 2014. The series is hosted on a YouTube channel of the same name and it is funded by viewers via Patreon. Since 2017, Mark Brown also hosts an annual ''GMTK'' game jam on itch.io. Each jam has a different theme – a design challenge – and contestants have 48 hours to design and create a video game fitting that theme. History Before starting ''Game Maker's Toolkit'', Mark Brown was a video game journalist. As a freelance writer he wrote for ''GamesRadar'', ''Wired'' and '' The Escapist'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cole Porter
Cole Albert Porter (June 9, 1891 – October 15, 1964) was an American composer and songwriter. Many of his songs became standards noted for their witty, urbane lyrics, and many of his scores found success on Broadway and in film. Born to a wealthy family in Indiana, Porter defied his grandfather's wishes for him to practice law and took up music as a profession. Classically trained, he was drawn to musical theatre. After a slow start, he began to achieve success in the 1920s, and by the 1930s he was one of the major songwriters for the Broadway musical stage. Unlike many successful Broadway composers, Porter wrote the lyrics as well as the music for his songs. After a serious horseback riding accident in 1937, Porter was left disabled and in constant pain, but he continued to work. His shows of the early 1940s did not contain the lasting hits of his best work of the 1920s and 1930s, but in 1948 he made a triumphant comeback with his most successful musical, ''Kiss Me, Kate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leigh Alexander (journalist)
Leigh Alexander (born ) is an American author and journalist. She is the former Editor-at-Large and News Editor for Gamasutra, and former editor-in-chief for the revived ''Boing Boing'' website ''Offworld''. She has writing credits on the games '' Reigns: Her Majesty'' and '' Reigns: Game of Thrones''. Career Her writing has appeared in ''Variety'', the ''Los Angeles Times'', ''Kotaku'', ''Polygon'', ''Vice'', ''Edge'', ''The Guardian'', ''The Atlantic'' and ''Time''. She also produces a video series called "Lo-Fi Let's Play", in which she plays and comments on adventure games from the 1980s. Alexander has written two books about video games: ''Breathing Machine'', about growing up with gaming and the nascent Internet, and ''Clipping Through'', about life in the games industry as viewed through the lens of the Game Developers Conference (GDC). On February 14, 2015 Alexander released an illustrated short story, ''Mona''. The book features illustrations by Emily Carroll. Alexander ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth (BioShock)
Elizabeth is a character (arts), fictional character in Irrational Games' ''BioShock Infinite'', the third title in the ''BioShock (series), BioShock'' series. The game is set in 1912 on a floating steampunk city named Columbia which was founded on the principles of American exceptionalism. Elizabeth has been groomed in a controlled environment to take over the reins of the city once its current leader, Father Zachary Hale Comstock, dies. Elizabeth has the power to open "tears" in the fabric of reality; she is able to view every event across all of the infinite timelines simultaneously and effortlessly open doorways to them, allowing her to access parallel universe (fiction), parallel universes. To prevent her from leaving Columbia, her captors employ a "siphon" which drains and limits her powers, and she is locked in a tower guarded by a giant mechanical bird called the Songbird. In exchange for his gambling debts being forgiven, the main protagonist of ''Infinite'', Booker DeWit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Characters Of The BioShock Series
The ''BioShock'' series is a collection of story-driven first-person shooters in which the player explores dystopian settings created by Ken Levine and his team at Irrational Games. The first two games, ''BioShock'' and its direct sequel, ''BioShock 2'', take place in the underwater city of Rapture in 1960 and 1968, which was influenced heavily by Ayn Rand's Objectivism. The third installment, ''BioShock Infinite'', is set aboard the floating air-city of Columbia in 1912, designed around the concept of American Exceptionalism. Though ''Infinite'' is not a direct sequel to the previous games, the game is thematically linked; a short scene within the core ''Infinite'' game returns to Rapture, while the downloadable content '' BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea'' tie in many of the plot elements between ''BioShock'' and ''BioShock Infinite''. As a heavily plot-driven series of games, ''BioShock'' contains a long list of non-playable characters (NPC) with which the player interacts an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polyptych
A polyptych ( ; Greek: ''poly-'' "many" and ''ptychē'' "fold") is a painting (usually panel painting) which is divided into sections, or panels. Specifically, a "diptych" is a two-part work of art; a "triptych" is a three-part work; a tetraptych or quadriptych has four parts, and so on. Historically, polyptychs typically displayed one "central" or "main" panel that was usually the largest of the attachments; the other panels are called "side" panels, or "wings". Sometimes, as evident in the Ghent and Isenheim works (see below), the hinged panels can be varied in arrangement to show different "views" or "openings" in the piece. The upper panels often depict static scenes, while the lower register, the predella, often depict small narrative scenes. Polyptychs were most commonly created by early Renaissance painters, the majority of whom designed their works to be altarpieces in churches and cathedrals. The polyptych form of art was also quite popular among ukiyo-e printmakers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atlas (BioShock)
Atlas is a character from the ''BioShock'' video game series created by Ken Levine, published by 2K Games. He first appears in the first title of the series, where he sets himself up as a benefactor of Jack, the game's player character, upon his arrival in the underwater city of Rapture. During a pivotal cutscene later in the game's narrative, Atlas discloses that he is actually the crime lord Frank Fontaine in disguise, the main antagonist of the game, and that he had been manipulating Jack to act against the city's founder Andrew Ryan. It is also revealed that he is responsible for orchestrating Jack's mental conditioning during his infancy and later a chain of events that led to his subsequent arrival in Rapture. Atlas is a major character in ''Episode Two'' of '' BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea'', a prequel which sets up the events of ''BioShock''. The character's name is intended to be a direct reference to Ayn Rand's 1957 novel ''Atlas Shrugged'' as well as its namesake ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bathysphere
The Bathysphere (Greek: , , "deep" and , , "sphere") was a unique spherical deep-sea submersible which was unpowered and lowered into the ocean on a cable, and was used to conduct a series of dives off the coast of Bermuda from 1930 to 1934. The Bathysphere was designed in 1928 and 1929 by the American engineer Otis Barton, to be used by the naturalist William Beebe for studying undersea wildlife. Beebe and Barton conducted dives in the Bathysphere together, marking the first time that a marine biologist observed deep-sea animals in their native environment. Their dives set several consecutive world records for the deepest dive ever performed by a human. The record set by the deepest of these, to a depth of on August 15, 1934, lasted until it was broken by Barton in 1949. Origin and design In 1928, the American naturalist William Beebe was given permission by the British government to establish a research station on Nonsuch Island, Bermuda. Using this station, Beebe planned to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The King Of Comedy (film)
(The) King of Comedy may refer to: People * Jerry Lewis (1926–2017), American comedian, actor, writer and director. Nicknamed for his role in the 1982 Martin Scorsese film of the same name * Dolphy (1928–2012), Filipino actor known as the "Comedy King" in the Philippines. * Mack Sennett (1880–1960), nicknamed the King of Comedy Film * ''The King of Comedy'' (film), a 1982 film starring Robert De Niro and Jerry Lewis * ''The Original Kings of Comedy'', a 2000 Spike Lee film * '' The Original Latin Kings of Comedy'', a 2002 Jeb Brien film * ''King of Comedy'' (film), a 1999 Hong Kong Television Broadcast film starring Stephen Chow Song * "King of Comedy" (song), a song by R.E.M. on their album ''Monster'' See also * Kings of Comedy (other) * Joker (2019 film) ''Joker'' is a 2019 American psychological drama thriller film directed by Todd Phillips, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Scott Silver. The film, based on DC Comics characters, stars Joaquin Ph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rupert Pupkin
Rupert may refer to: People * Rupert (name), various people known by the given name or surname "Rupert" Places Canada * Rupert, Quebec, a village * Rupert Bay, a large bay located on the south-east shore of James Bay * Rupert River, Quebec * Rupert's Land, a former territory in British North America United States *Rupert, Georgia, an unincorporated community in Taylor County *Rupert, Idaho, a county seat and largest city of Minidoka County *Rupert, Ohio, an unincorporated community in Union Township, Madison County * Rupert, Pennsylvania, a census-designated place (CDP) in Columbia County * Rupert, Vermont, a town in Bennington County *Rupert, West Virginia, a town in Greenbrier County Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha *Ruperts, Saint Helena, a village in Jamestown District, Saint Helena Fiction * Rupert, a teddy bear owned by cartoon character Stewie Griffin on the television series ''Family Guy'' * Rupert, a squirrel in the 1950 Christmas film '' The Great Rupert' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
