A weekly newsletter of what I've seen in (mostly) tech & games and thought was interesting. This week: harbingers, sex toys, and cat videos…
Commuters - a small photography project
This summer I bought a new full-frame camera (a Panasonic S1). Since then, my interest into photography and the desire to learn more have grown quite a bit. I started carrying a small camera with me at all times. This has gradually turned into a small street photography project I would call “Commuters”.
Delicious Digest #6 – Drunk Shopping
A weekly newsletter of what I've seen in (mostly) tech & games and thought was interesting. This week: drunk shopping, slot machines that walk in bars, and Lush Lava…”
An Introduction to Skill Ratings and Match-Making in Competitive Games
Any game that has a competitive element will face the problem of how to select the right opponent for a player. This does not only apply to video games. Chess, Tennis, Champions League etc. all apply varying methods of measuring the “skill” of a player or team and aim to provide a good match.
The goals can be different. In tennis, for example, it is more exciting to see a final match of Federer against Nadal rather than seeing them face off in the first round. In chess, a game of pure skill, you want to have a worthy opponent for an interesting match. The alternative would be a match in which you beat your opponent in 10 moves – or vice versa.
The problem then is: how do I measure the skill of a player? There are a variety of systems that aim to do so.
Five Simple Actions to Improve Creative Problem Solving in Teams or Groups
When it comes to idea generation, particularly in teams, we immediately think of brainstorming as the go-to technique to generate lots and lots of ideas. However, teams suck at this. Given that this is a very common activity in the games creation process, I thought it might be useful also for others to summarize what I've learned about it through research and using it.
One of My Favorite End-of-Year Lists
Tom Whitwell has been sharing his “52 things I learned” lists for a few years now on Medium. They are truly a treasure trough of surprising, intriguing, shocking, and funny facts and figure and I enjoy them a lot.
Stupid Problems
The beauty of a static website is course its simplicity: you don't have to deal with SQL servers, rights-management yada yada.
The problem with resurrecting your old webhosting site is, of course, legacy.