http://gglob.mortenjohs.net A blog about life, the universe and everything - but mainly games. Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:02:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ http://gglob.mortenjohs.net/2009/06/27/spillanmanm/ http://gglob.mortenjohs.net/2009/06/27/spillanmanm/#comments Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:12:11 +0000 mortenjohs http://gglob.mortenjohs.net/?p=258 After reading a thought provoking post by John Erik Riley in the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten on the state of Norwegian video game journalism some days ago, I created the hash tag #spillanmanm in the twitterverse to see if Twitter really could function as a channel for discussions as Stephen Johnson claims in his famous, inspiring Times cover story about Twitter. (If you haven't read it yet - do it!) And with lots of help from Maren's follow up post in the reasonably new, but highly followable, blog Spillpikene.no, the tag worked wonders as a "bucket" for this interesting discussion. This is where I provide my impressions on this discussion - in English - and throw my 2 cents into the debate (or whatever people do with their 2 cents these days) in the form of some pseudo random rambling and thoughts on the matter filtered through some red wine. (That's what blogs are for, isn't it?)]]> http://gglob.mortenjohs.net/2009/06/27/spillanmanm/feed/ http://gglob.mortenjohs.net/2009/05/13/newsonglafee/ http://gglob.mortenjohs.net/2009/05/13/newsonglafee/#comments Wed, 13 May 2009 21:22:22 +0000 mortenjohs http://gglob.mortenjohs.net/?p=255 Started a new song with a new project; 1bisHill, the other day. Download very early taste from here.]]> http://gglob.mortenjohs.net/2009/05/13/newsonglafee/feed/ http://gglob.mortenjohs.net/2009/03/25/goapps/ http://gglob.mortenjohs.net/2009/03/25/goapps/#comments Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:46:34 +0000 mortenjohs http://gglob.mortenjohs.net/?p=188 Maybe it is because the icon in XCode you click to create a new iPhone OpenGL ES Application is a 6x6 goban with a game under way, or maybe go is going through some kind of (re)neissance amongst the iphone developers, or maybe it is just because there are so incredibly many apps for the iPhone out there in general, but I hardly know any platform with as many implementations of this fantastic game. So far I've stumbled across six. Go (Weiqi), iGo, Tetsuki, SmartGo touch, Aya Go and plain and simple; (Gnu) Go. As promised here are some of my thoughts on them so far...]]> http://gglob.mortenjohs.net/2009/03/25/goapps/feed/ http://gglob.mortenjohs.net/2009/03/22/almost-two-months-with-an-iphone/ http://gglob.mortenjohs.net/2009/03/22/almost-two-months-with-an-iphone/#comments Sun, 22 Mar 2009 16:44:02 +0000 mortenjohs http://gglob.mortenjohs.net/?p=181 http://gglob.mortenjohs.net/2009/03/22/almost-two-months-with-an-iphone/feed/ http://gglob.mortenjohs.net/2009/01/04/new-song-t16742/ http://gglob.mortenjohs.net/2009/01/04/new-song-t16742/#comments Sun, 04 Jan 2009 14:40:31 +0000 mortenjohs http://gglob.mortenjohs.net/?p=175 Inspired by reading the excellent Fear and Loathing in LA by Hunter S. Thompson and train T16742 the 24th of December I created a small walz on my trusty Korg DS-10 on my way through center France...]]> http://gglob.mortenjohs.net/2009/01/04/new-song-t16742/feed/ http://gglob.mortenjohs.net/2009/01/03/games-of-the-year-2008/ http://gglob.mortenjohs.net/2009/01/03/games-of-the-year-2008/#comments Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:05:45 +0000 mortenjohs http://gglob.mortenjohs.net/?p=172 2008 has, like 2007, been one of the best years ever for video gamers. Here's a quick list of the games I’ve enjoyed the most.]]> http://gglob.mortenjohs.net/2009/01/03/games-of-the-year-2008/feed/ http://gglob.mortenjohs.net/2008/12/20/new-cover-song-do-you-realize/ http://gglob.mortenjohs.net/2008/12/20/new-cover-song-do-you-realize/#comments Sat, 20 Dec 2008 10:32:47 +0000 mortenjohs http://gglob.mortenjohs.net/?p=171 This time around I'm posting a small cover song I did of the excellent Flaming Lips original "Do you realize?". I've tried to make a more walzy, stripped down version. Download it from here.]]> http://gglob.mortenjohs.net/2008/12/20/new-cover-song-do-you-realize/feed/ http://gglob.mortenjohs.net/2008/08/03/more-mashing-of-buttons/ http://gglob.mortenjohs.net/2008/08/03/more-mashing-of-buttons/#comments Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:32:02 +0000 mortenjohs http://gglob.mortenjohs.net/?p=169 http://gglob.mortenjohs.net/2008/08/03/more-mashing-of-buttons/feed/ http://gglob.mortenjohs.net/2008/08/03/the-mashing-of-buttons/ http://gglob.mortenjohs.net/2008/08/03/the-mashing-of-buttons/#comments Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:27:15 +0000 mortenjohs http://gglob.mortenjohs.net/?p=168 http://gglob.mortenjohs.net/2008/08/03/the-mashing-of-buttons/feed/ http://gglob.mortenjohs.net/2008/03/30/play-indy-games/ http://gglob.mortenjohs.net/2008/03/30/play-indy-games/#comments Sat, 29 Mar 2008 22:24:32 +0000 mortenjohs http://gglob.mortenjohs.net/?p=165 More and more and more and more people play and make games. And budgets gets bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger. So it's getting more and more and more and more difficult for small independent developers to get noticed. Witch is a pity as they make better and better and better and better games.]]> http://gglob.mortenjohs.net/2008/03/30/play-indy-games/feed/