Minmaxing Life

Eric Viennot répond a ses propres questions dans un interview mirroir autour de la création et des jeux.

For those who have not heard of him, Randy Pausch was a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University working on subjects closely related to video games. He was one of the creators of Alice, a software that tries to teach children programming while having fun. He was a brilliant speaker and you should [...]

Anyone who’s been around me long enough has eventually had to suffer through one of my long winded tangent on the societal impact of technology and the probable advent of the Singularity. So, of course, Ray Kurzweil’s book’s “The Singularity Is Near” takes the place of the bible on my bed stand and it was [...]

Chris Hecker is one of those guys really worth following. He has been very active in the game community for years where he’s notoriously known as a super brilliant guy, that has never released a game. But that’s all going to change very soon as he’s gone directly from that to helping Will Wright on [...]

Who’s never heard of Sid Meier? Having designed Civilization is enough to make him a legend in game circles.
But that’s far, far from all he did. Here are my slightly reworked notes on his interview at GDC today (Italics are my added thoughts).
Standing the test of time: a Q&A with Sid Meier, questions by Noah [...]

Apparently, the good Dr Kawashima – who inspired the Brain Age games that sold over 17 million copies worldwide – does not want a single yen from the 22 million dollars in royalties he is due:
“Everyone in my family is mad at me but I tell them that if they want money, go out and [...]

Garrett Lisi simply rocks. He might very well turn out to be the guy who cracked the Theory of Everything with his – tongue in cheek – Exceptionally Simple Theory. But whether he’s right or not, the simple fact that he managed to have a shot at this after having spent the last 10 years [...]