I was going through my Spyborgs materials and listening to a bunch of the songs that we didn’t include when we changed directions (but which are available on the disc as special features).
This one was one of my favorites:
Two Fisted Plumbing Commercial Jingle
In the original concept for this game (when it was a Saturday Morning cartoon) we had short playable commercials. This commercial was for a plumbing company called “Two-Fisted Plumbers”.
The two fish plumbers with banjos are sitting in a sewer singing the jingle and you strummed with the wii-remote along to notes that floated by underneath (guitar hero style). I wish I still had the art that went along with this stuff, cuz it was really neat. It was done by an artist we contracted named Katie McDee who has a really cool illustration style.
http://ps3.ign.com/articles/105/1050144p1.html
Woo! My work made a top 10 list.
I rule.
Undoubtedly one of the more heated gaming controversies of recent times befell Sony in the Summer of 2007, when The Church of England threw its toys out of the pram over the use of Manchester Cathedral in Insomniac’s PS3 launch title.
In a storm of righteous indignation, church officials described the unauthorised use of the location as “desecration” and even copyright infringement.
Demanding that the offending section of the game be removed, and the game be pulled off the shelves, Sony eventually managed to defuse the row with a formal apology – but stopped short of ceding to the church’s demand for a donation. They probably sent a promo instead.
I’ve been doing some research on reward systems in games for work. I found this article a long time ago, but it’s one I always keep coming back to, so I figured I’d post it here:
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3085/behavioral_game_design.php
The article is called “Behavioral Game Design.” The author breaks down rewards into various categories and shows how (just like a Vegas Slot Machine) games can use rewards to encourage desired behavior and discourage undesired behavior.
It’s an interesting read, either way, and I’ve gotten a lot of mileage out of it.
I am posting this while flying on an aereoplane.
They have wifi in the sky now.
I think I just shat myself with joy.
Also, I really wanted to say, to get all Sam Jackson-esque:
“I am glad for this motherfuckin wifi on this motherfuckin plane.”
Oops, sorry to those who have email alerts enabled. I just realized the plugin for that has been broken for a while.
Should be fixed now.