Blog discoveries for January

Game Developers

In the Games of Madness
» "How Gameplay and Narrative kill Meaning in 'Games'"

Game Industry

New York Gamedev
» "A new year, a new decade, and a new blog!"

Drink

Art and Tea
» "Saturday Morning Tea"

Grinding for glory

In Upgrade Complete!, you play a Galaga-style shooter to blast enemies and collect money for upgrades in order to max out your game — not just your ship, but everything from the music and graphics to menu buttons to the copyright notice. You even have to buy the shop screen and preloader before you can load up the game. Not only a cheeky parody of mindless grinding games, it's actually well-balanced and surprisingly fun to play.

Seeing green

Nice video showing the ubiquitous use of greenscreen effects in television, often in unexpected places like ordinary-looking exterior shots for shows like Ugly Betty.



Via Mental Floss.