Giant Real-Life Game Of Life-Boardgame on Japanese Island
Anlässlich des 45jährigen Jubiläums (45? Really?) wird sich die Insel Yoron bei Japan in eine riesige Real-Life-Version des Spiel des Lebens verwandeln, komplett mit riesigen Drehrädern und Bussen mit diesen Steckmännchen obendrauf. Ich hab’ das Spiel als Kind eine ganze Zeit lang bis zum Erbrachen mit meiner Cousine gezockt, aber nach Japan werde ich für diese Version hier wohl eher nicht reisen.
The Game of Life, one of the oldest board games still around today enjoys continued success around the world. Japan in particular has embraced the line of wheel spinning games, where it’s known by the direct translation Jinsei Gemu. As 2013 marks the 45th anniversary of the Game of Life in Japan, one island has decided to celebrate by turning the entire place into one big Game of Life board complete with spinners and play money.
The life-sized Game of Life will be held from 20 July to 16 September on Yoron Island located just North of Okinawa. The impetus for this plan was the fact that the island is shaped like that hilly part of the game board where the spinner sits. Throughout these summer months, players will be given a map showing the game squares and an allotment of fake money like that used in the game. The players will then spin one of four wheels located around the island and proceed to that spot.
Japanese island to become real-life Game of Life for the summer
Electronic Dice Barbarian Gauntlet
Am 30. März ist Tabletop Day und Daniel und ich wollen da irgendwas machen, wir wissen aber noch nicht genau was. Wahrscheinlich werden wir Monopoly (ich weiß, Brettspiele sind keine Tabletops… sei’d drum) nach sozialistischen Regeln spielen, vielleicht auch irgendwie online, mal sehen. Jedenfalls: Think Geek verkauft Electronic Dice Barbarian Gauntlets, die mit ‘ner Armbewegung alle möglichen Würfel simulieren. Erscheint mir zu dem Anlass überaus passend und das Teil geht wohl auch als barbarische iWatch-Variante durch.
- Flick your wrist and “magically” roll the dice with this awesome RPG accessory.
- Seriously, all DMs will bow before you.
- Handmade out of real leather, real electronics, and faux fur.
- Able to be calibrated for sensitivity and for right/left handed use.Modes:
- Clock – tells the time! (Please Note: turning off the unit will reset or significantly affect the time.)
- Double Counter – keep track of whatever you want – times two.
- Single Die – Choose any die, from standard ones to any sided you want (1-100).
- Double Die Mode (aka: Dice Mode): pick from d2, d4, d6, d12, d20, d100 (each die can be different).
Melting Boardgame teaches Climate Change
Die Agentur Kolle Rebbe hat für das Wissenschaftsmagazin Geolino ein Brettspiel namens Meltdown entwickelt, das schmilzt und so Klimawandel für Kids anschaulich macht. Disclaimer: Gruner+Jahr gehören zu den größten Lobbyisten des Leistungsschutzrechts und darüber hinaus finde ich konzerngesponsorte Bildung grundsätzlich sehr fragwürdig. Wobei es eben auf den Einzelfall ankommt und ich liebe diese Idee hier! Thomas schreibt mir:
GEOlino, the German science magazine for children, wanted its young readers to experience the effects of global warming. Not with dry-as-dust theory, but in a completely child-oriented way. That’s why we’ve developed MELTDOWN – the first board game that melts.
The aim of the game is to take a polar bear family from the permanent ice floes to safety on the mainland. It’s a race against time, as the way leads across real, slowly melting ice floes, which children can make themselves with the accompanying mould, a bit of water and a freezer compartment. The chunks of ice are arranged on a blue polar sea sponge to form a small Arctic. The sponge is used as the game board and absorbs the melted ice at the same time. Now you can start saving polar bears.
MELTDOWN makes children experience the effects of global warming in a playful way. Without any wagging finger – just one hand to roll the dice.
Meltdown – The first board game that melts (Danke Thomas!)
Bonustrack: Shipping Routes May Go Straight Over the North Pole by Mid-Century
Laser-etched Monopoly-Set made from Wood
Jemand namens Steve hat sich sein eigenes Monopoly-Set aus Holz mit Lasergravur gebastelt. Sweet: Co-worker spent 600 hours making this. We work for a laser company.
Starcraft Risk
Was soll man zu einer Risk-Version mit Terranern, Zerg und Protoss nun anderes sagen außer WANT!
One of the most popular video games in history has mated in a very successful way with one of the greatest strategic board games ever created. The offspring is a very healthy, baby Starcraft Risk! (We counted: it has all its fingers, toes, and tentacles.) Choose between one of the three races: Protoss, Terran, and the Zerg, and wage war on the battle-torn Koprulu Sector.
The game comes with 333 game pieces: 2 Terran armies, 2 Protoss armies, 2 Zerg armies, 6 leaders, 6 custom bases, 15 custom mineral fields, 42 faction/territory cards, a custom game board, and 7 dice. There are also 4 unique ways of playing Starcraft Risk: Basic Training, Command Room, Total Domination, and Team Play. Enjoy the legendary strategy game coupled with a theme of proportional legend: Starcraft Risk.
HTML – The Boardgame
Awwww! Ein Webdesign-Boardgame basierend auf der Hypertext Markup Language mit dem etwas bekloppten Namen cHTeMeLe. Das Spiel steht unter CC-Lizenz, die Regeln auf Englisch sowie Downloads der Spielkarten und Boards gibt’s hier, eine professionell gedruckte und produzierte Version des Games gibt’s auf der Crowdfunding-Seite.
In cHTeMeLe, players endorse their favorite web browser (Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera, or IE) and then score points by correctly laying out HTML tags, while also trying to bug or crash their opponents’ code.
Despite cHTeMeLe’s technical theme, its developers claim you don’t need any web programming experience to play. The game takes web design standards and boils them down into game rules that even children can learn. To help less technical players keep everything straight, the tag cards use syntax highlighting that different parts of code have unique colors — just like an Integrated Developer Environment. No one is going to completely pick up HTML5 purely by playing cHTeMeLe, but it does have some educational value for understanding basic tags and how they fit together.
Alan Turing Monopoly-Board
Bletchley Park ist der Sitz der englischen Government Code and Cypher School, einer der Mitarbeiter war Alan Turing und dort knackte er die Verschlüsselung der deutschen Enigma, Rest is History. Dort hat er allerdings nicht nur Geschichte geschrieben, sondern auch mit Kollegen auf einem selbstgemalten Board Monopoly gespielt und das gibt es demnächst als offizielles Turing-Monopoly. Awesome!
Bletchley Park is delighted to officially launch the Alan Turing Monopoly board, developed from a unique original board in the Bletchley Park Museum, hand-drawn by William Newman, son of Turing’s mentor, Max, over sixty years ago.
In this special edition of Monopoly, the squares around the board and revised Chance and Community Chest cards tell the story of Alan Turing’s life along with key elements of the original hand-drawn board, which the great mathematician played on with a young William in the early 1950s – and lost. The board has been developed by the Bletchley Park Trust, William Newman and Winning Moves, which creates new editions of Monopoly.
In addition to the new board, the set includes:
· Replica of the original hand-drawn board, complete with William’s own rules
· Never before seen pictures of Turing, kindly given by the Turing family
· Turing’s face on all the banknotes – putting him on the £10 note as per the current petition!
· Huts and Blocks (the buildings which housed the Bletchley Park codebreakers and their machines) in place of traditional houses and hotels
· The story of the board, and explanations of the squares throughout
Bletchley Park Launches Special Edition Alan Turing Monopoly Board (via Boing Boing)
Nintendo Risk
Redditor NintendoRisk arbeitet seit ein paar Jahren an einem… nun… einem Nintendo Risk-Set. In der Zeit hätte man durchaus etwas ein wenig abgefahreneres hinkriegen können, aber man kann halt nicht alles haben.
I’m a huge fan of Risk and of Nintendo games, so I combined them into this awesome creation. I started working on it about 7 years ago, and this is the third board I’ve made. Previous ones were cut and pasted together onto a posterboard, but for this iteration, I scanned in the massive poster and spent weeks remastering it in Photoshop.
Then I spent weeks more working on the cards. When I first made it, a lot of the cards were just Nintendo themed copies of cards from Risk 2210 and Godstorm, but as the years went by, we got more and more creative. For this project, I ended up dumping about 60% of the original cards for a more varied array, but I fear now that a lot of the cards are too attack based, and that there are not enough defensive cards. Oh well, I’m sure that I’ll keep tweaking the game for another 7 years.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas-Boardgame
Hatte ich vor mehr als drei Jahren schonmal gebloggt, aber mir is’ grade so Fledermausland: Jonathan Baldwin hat ein Brettspiel nach Hunter S. Thompsons Drogentrip-Buch „Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas“ gebastelt. Kommt in einem Koffer, damit man mit dem Ding bequem durch die Staaten reisen und ab und zu im Fledermausland eine ordentliche Portion LSD einwerfen kann.
„A scientifically-accurate, organic chemistry board game based around ‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.’“
Dr. Gonzo: Music, man. Put that tape on.
Raoul Duke: What tape?
Dr. Gonzo: Jefferson Airplane, “White Rabbit”. I need a rising sound.
DIY Game of Thrones Risk-Board
Fay Helfer hat für einen gewissen Matt Burdette dieses Risk-Spielbrett mit einer Karte des Kontinents Westeros aus Game Of Thrones gebaut. Sowas von WANT! (via Nerd Approved)
Settlers of Catan built in Lego
Die Siedler von Catan in Lego von jemandem namens Ryan. Das Teil ist spielbar. Grandios! Hier gibt’s ein Flickr-Set dazu, Bild des Sets in Aktion oben von Matt Hamann. (via Brothers Brick)
Auch nett: Ein Lego-Sequencer von Superquadratic (hier der Python-Code auf Github), gebastelt für Hackathon auf der Advance Conference in Köln vor ein paar Monaten:
Vimeo Direktbeats, via Ronny
Godfather Monopoly
Irgendwelche Special-Monopoly-Sets gibt’s mittlerweile wie Sand am Meer, aber bei ‘nem Godfather-Monopoly werde ich hellhörig. Wenn man dann noch nen abgeschnittenen Pferdekopf als Spielfigur hat, bin ich dabei.
Enter the world of The Godfather Collector’s Edition of MONOPOLY, where you “keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.” Buy, sell and trade your way through the most memorable locations from The Godfather movie trilogy. Buy a stake in Moe Green’s Casino or take over the Corleone Lake Tahoe Estate as you work your way to the top in the “family business.” And as you wheel and deal around the board, from the Woltz Mansion to the legitimate Genco Import Company, remember to “make them an offer they can’t refuse.”
MONOPOLY: The Godfather Edition (via WhoKilledBambi)
Amazon-Partnerlink: The Godfather Monopoly Board Game: The Godfather Monopoly
Bookmarks for Dezember 17th: 1966 Batman-Intro in Lego, International Food-Art-Incident and Saddam, Googles L-Team
Sweden Is Lending The Country’s Twitter To Citizens | Geekosystem: In a weird but awesome move, Sweden has started a campaign where its official Twitter account, @sweden, will be taken over and operated by a different Swede every week.
Occupy Goes to Washington, Finding Politics is Complicated | Threat Level | Wired.com: Even by Occupy Wall Street standards, the Washington, D.C. situation is messy and uncertain.
Artist Michael Rakowitz on How His Saddam Hussein Dinner Party Became an International Incident | Artinfo: When a dinner of venison topped with date and tahini sauce was served on plates taken from Saddam Husseins private collection at Park Avenue Autumn for Iraqi-American artist Michael Rakowitzs project „Spoils“, the assorted art-world diners didn’t bat an eye – but now New York Citys Iraqi mission has, turning Rakowitzs piece into an international incident. The controversy, exploding on the eve of the U.S.s supposed withdrawal from Iraq, has had reverberations touching the artist, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, and president Obama himself. As Iraqi artifacts, the plates have been confiscated by the Iraqi mission after a cease-and-desist letter was sent to the restaurant, and were presented by Obama to the Prime Minister on Wednesday.
Exclusive: Google CEO’s inner circle: Meet the L Team | Reuters: The most powerful group at Google Inc used to be known simply as "The OC," short for operating committee. Now, it goes by a more telling name: „L Team“ short for Larry’s Team.
Parting Shot: ‘Go Freelance,’ The Board Game About Being a Comics Freelancer
What If… Herge Created The X-Men?
ARYZ x MONTANA LiSBOA | Silkscreen Print on Vimeo
The Command Line Crash Course – Controlling Your Computer From The Terminal
awesome Gmail Tips : Gmail as you have never known it before
Mars Attacks Portfolio of Roughs Published ~ 1982
Web Symbols typeface
StarCraft changed my life
Early sound recordings heard for first time: Scientists from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California together with digital conversion experts at the Library of Congress and curators of the work and industry division of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History have succeeded in playing some of the earliest experimental sound recordings by Alexander Graham Bell.
Bradley Manning Had Secrets | Adam Butcher – Writer. Director. Filmmaker: The story of Bradley Manning, not as a Wikileaks ‘hacktivist’, but as a young American soldier simultaneously going through a crisis-of-conscious and a crisis-of-identity. Animated in a rotoscoped pixel-art style and using dialogue from Bradley’s online conversations, the film explores issues of personal and political secrets, digital identity and alienation.
Changing Contours of Global Order, Professor Noam Chomsky – YouTube: Professor Noam Chomsky presented a lecture „Changing Contours of Global Order“ a look at our drastically changing world, and the implications for domestic and world order on 4 November 2011. This was a free public lecture and was Professor Chomskys only public appearance in Melbourne, Australia.
Art Spiegelman Lecture at SHU – YouTube: SHU ComicsAnimation has uploaded a good, long video featuring Art Spiegelman giving a lecture – it features discussion about Maus, the Holocaust in the media and the craft of creating comics.
Adrian Frutiger – Ein Leben – YouTube: Mit Schriften wie der Univers und der Frutiger hat sich Adrian Frutiger schon zu Lebzeiten ein Denkmal gesetzt. Seine Schriften haben den Alltag geprägt und sind zum Beispiel auf den Euro Scheinen wieder zu finden. Einer der größten Designer des 20. Jahrhunderts ist den meisten Menschen vollkommen unbekannt. Dieses Interview soll das ändern.
Mozilla Reinvents Web Video With Popcorn 1.0 | Webmonkey | Wired.com: Popcorn is simply a JavaScript library that aims to simplify the process of adding external data culled from around the web to your video. To give an idea of what’s possible with Popcorn, Mozilla is showcasing the movie One Millionth Tower, a documentary film about an apartment building and how residents imagine the future. One Millionth Tower premiered online last weekend at Wired.com. If you haven’t seen it yet, head over to the Underwire blog.
One Millionth Tower uses some tricks beyond Popcorn (like WebGL for some 3D elements), but most of its coolest effects — like the way the environment in the film changes based on the real-time weather conditions and time of day at the Toronto high-rises where the documentary was filmed — are all courtesy of Popcorn.
If it happens to be snowing in Toronto when you watch the film, it will begin snowing in the virtual world of One Millionth Tower.
DIY Fallout Monopoly-Game
Elisabeth aka DeviantArt-Userin PinkAxolotl hat ihrem Freund ein Fallout-Monopoly-Board gebastelt, alle Straßen sind Locations aus dem Game, die Figuren sind angeranzte Versionen des Originals. Super! (Ich hätte mir ja die Bilder selbst weniger dirty gewünscht, weil das Boardgame an sich ja bereits verrottet aussieht und so isses doppelt geranzt, was doof ist, aber ich fang schon wieder an rumzukritteln, is’ schon super.) (via Superpunch)
