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Cell: Emergence: An AI experiment with the heart of an old-school arcade shooter

9 Feb 2012

There's an undisguised nostalgia about Cell: Emergence , though it's not quite as bold or overt as other recent blocky 3D games like 3D Dot Game Heroes or Minecraft . Still, the effort from indie developer New Life Interactive uses the mechanics and still-screen storytelling of an aged arcade shooter to deliver a short, cerebral package. And despite its humility, Cell: Emergence 's new ...

Road to the IGF: Alexander Bruce's Antichamber

9 Feb 2012

[In the latest in our "Road to the IGF" series of interviews with 2012 IGF finalists, Gamasutra speaks with Alexander Bruce about his 2012 IGF Technical Excellence Award nominee Antichamber.] Alexander "Demruth" Bruce's Antichamber is a game about discovery, set inside a vibrant, minimal, Escher-like world, where geometry and space follow unfamiliar rules, and obstacles are a matter of ...

Four crazy tech ideas from Google's Solve for X project

9 Feb 2012

Google promised radical technology proposals would be a part of its Solve for X project, and its initial offerings so far haven't disappointed.