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Go Forge Yourself
Cozmo23 let us know that Clan O7AH is hosting the First Annual Go Forge Yourself Contest; you've got until December 17 to create something cool. There will be prizes for the Most Creative Map, Best Looking Map, and Best Overall Map. Check the site for full details and rules.
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As Stupid As Possible.
Bungie slipped in a few cheap shots in the dialogue of Halo 3 - Stuntmutt helps you find one in today's One One Se7en. (Louis Wu 17:20:09 UTC) (permalink)
Halo 3 Cheat Codes
Heh - this is hilarious. The only downside is now I'm going to lose a ton of time going through the rest of the site... (Louis Wu 17:16:32 UTC) (permalink)
Bungie to be well-represented at GDC
The newspost about the Game Designers Expo reminded me that the Game Developers Conference is coming soon, as well - February 18 in San Francisco - so it's time to see who from Bungie will be talking this year. It's a pretty big list:
- Chris Butcher will be discussing Matchmaking in Halo 3
- Hao Chen will be talking about Lighting And Material Of Halo 3
- CJ Cowan will look at the Halo 3 Cinematic Process
- Yaohua Hu will discuss Lightmap Compression In Halo 3
- Marty O'Donnell will do an Audio Post-Mortem of the game
- Luis Villegas and Sean Shypula will talk about distributed processing to speed up development tasks, will lessons from Halo 3
Sounds like it'll be a great show for folks who want to learn the Bungie magic! Update: Tom "Achronos" Gioconda reprimanded me for missing his talk - Making the Community Part of HALO. (My only excuse is that 'Bungie' is not mentioned as his company affiliation.) Ironically, that's probably the most relevant talk to this website! (Louis Wu 17:04:37 UTC) (permalink)
New goodies at the Bungie Store
In an interesting move to a wider variety of wearables, the Bungie Store has added a Master Chief Thermal Twofer, a Short Sleeved Work Shirt, and a Reversible Beanie. Thanks, ViralSyris. (Louis Wu 17:02:53 UTC) (permalink)
Bungie audio team giving keynote at GD Expo
Very nice - Jay Weinland and CJ Cowan will be giving the Keynote speech at this year's Game Design Expo in Vancouver, BC (January 2008). They'll be talking about "the tools and processes that helped create the sound and visuals for Halo 3". Thanks, RotaJota. (Louis Wu 16:51:01 UTC) (permalink)
Battles at the first tower
Rockslider has put up a new page at Bad Cyborg; there are directions for putting together large battles on The Covenant. Go read! (Louis Wu 15:57:09 UTC) (permalink)
Halo 3 FFA online tourney
RedSpades wrote to say that he's hosting a Halo 3 FFA Tournament on his site, WinMicrosoftPoints.com - admission is free, prizes include the book Halo Effect, an iTunes gift card, and a 1-month XBL Gold card. Details can be found in this forum post. Update: The tourney starts Saturday, November 17 - if you're playing, check the site for details. (Louis Wu 15:55:08 UTC) (permalink)
Sniping for Christ
Christ and Pop Culture has a podcast devoted to the subject of whether it makes sense to use Halo as a recruitment tool for Christian outreach groups. Yes, this subject is in danger of being oversaturated (we actually suggested that a month ago) - but this podcast talks to someone who games for fun, and is a seminary student. He makes some interesting points. (Louis Wu 15:51:19 UTC) (permalink)
More Than Genetics
TTL Demag0gue has posted Wednesday's Reclaimer comic - in Chapter One, Part Eight, Ferial continues to explore the idea of will, and what you can do with it. (Louis Wu 12:34:35 UTC) (permalink)
Great Uses of Forge, from MLG
MLG takes a look at some of the things Forge makes possible in an article on MLGPro.com - interesting read. Thanks, Grady Durden. (Louis Wu 12:30:27 UTC) (permalink)
Large Online FFA at Violated Gaming
Chad Souter let us know that ViolatedGaming.com is holding a 256-player single-elimination FFA tournament on November 19, at 6 pm CST. Entry is free, and the entire tourney will be completed in a 2-3 hour stretch. They've got 51 players so far - go sign up! (Louis Wu 12:25:16 UTC) (permalink)
OMRA
trigger119 stopped by yesterday to announce the OMRA - the Online Machinima Rating Association. They're planning on it mostly being used for videos released through GamingTV, but they're also making the ratings graphics available for download, so that machinima makers who elect NOT to host their vids at GTV can still incorporate the ratings. (Because this means that some movies that use this rating system will be self-rated, you should take the ratings with a grain of salt... but the idea is an intriguing one nonetheless.) (Louis Wu 12:20:28 UTC) (permalink)
Oh no, where do we go?
Oh no, where do we go?
Hawty McBloggy found an entertaining (if NSFW) Halo rap on YouTube - go watch. (She warns that it's slow for the first 4:50 - she's got that colon in the wrong place. It's only 45 seconds.) There's more information about Warped Corp, the group that put this together, on the actual YouTube page. (Louis Wu 12:16:25 UTC) (permalink)
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