Richard Moss
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Audio/podcast producer, historian, journalist, & freelance writer specialised in features. Covers games, play, tech, science, innovation. Email: rich.c.moss at gmail
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exchange.telstra.com.au
Why Cyber Security needs to be seen as a business risk – not just an IT problem
It seems like almost every week now there’s another high-profile and highly-damaging cyber security breach. In May, we witnessed a massive global ransomware attack that impacted thousands of businesses, for instance, while a breach of US credit rating agency Equifax exposed sensitive personal information from nearly half of the US population.
Security through obscurity is no protection, with malware and ransomware constantly disguised as legitimate business emails and Distributed Denial of Se...
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lifeandtimes.games
Episode 3 - Colour Cycling
This is the story of illustrator Mark Ferrari, whose artwork was so good it forced Lucasfilm Games to figure out how to make a graphics technique called dithering compress to fit on floppy disks — in the process winning awards and triggering the use of dither in the wider games industry — and who pioneered the use of two background illustration tricks that gave the illusion of animation. He became world-renowned for his colour cycling and palette shifting techniques, which could be used to ma...
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PC Gamer
How a 17-year-old community is keeping Elasto Mania alive
It may lack the spectacle of football’s greatest stage, but the stars of the Elasto Mania World Cup have just as much power to amaze as the likes of Messi, Neymar and Ronaldo. The long-lived shareware elastic motorcycle puzzler celebrated its seventh World Cup this year with a schedule of virtual apple consumption and intense höyling—a word meaning to play a level endlessly—spread across 15 events in three months.
It took winner Zweq some 150 to 200 hours of playtime, distributed across the e...
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exchange.telstra.com.au
The opportunity of IoT: it’s all on show at Telstra Vantage 2017
After years of hearing about how the Internet of Things (IoT) is going to transform business – and the world – we’ve seen at Telstra Vantage in 2017 that it’s very much happening now. IoT tech is improving productivity across multiple industries, monitoring weather and transport, collecting huge amounts of analytics data, and much more.
For those unaware, the Internet of Things refers to the billions of objects – both natural and manufactured – that are being imbued with the power to collect ...
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gamasutra.com
5 key lessons from the candid game dev book, Blood, Sweat, and Pixels
The new book Blood, Sweat, and Pixels digs into the making of 10 high profile AAA and indie releases. We selected 5 insightful quotes you'll find in the book that every developer can benefit from.
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lifeandtimes.games
Race to the bottom
[audio piece] In the early days of the iPhone App Store, game developers found themselves locked in a race to a $0.99 price point that none of them wanted to become standard. This is the story of how that happened, and how it affected mobile games going forward.
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arstechnica.com
The tragedy of FireWire: Collaborative tech torpedoed by corporations
"Show us that it's being adopted in the industry, and we'll put it in.”
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gamasutra.com
Gamasutra - 7 examples of accessibility design that developers should study
With ever-more developers pushing to make their games accessible, we asked Spohn and Hamilton to help assemble a list of seven games that exemplify different accessibility best practices. Here are their choices:
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www.polygon.com
Veteran game developers reveal their childhood creations - Polygon
When they were kids
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howwegettonext.com
The World’s Best Sports Technology Comes From the Military-Industrial Complex
At Wimbledon every year, the world’s elite tennis players compete knowing they can appeal to God if a human line caller gets something wrong. That God’s name is Hawk-Eye, and it makes decisions...
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ludiphilia.net
Ludiphilia Episode 9: If Monks Had Macs
It all started with a Macintosh ad: 'You too can be a knowledge worker.' This is the story of Brian Thomas' 15-year odyssey at the helm of one of the strangest pieces of multimedia software ever created — If Monks Had Macs.
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arstechnica.com
Roam free: A history of open-world gaming | Ars Technica
You know the violence, but there were text-adventures, skiing, space, and ants(!) too.
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www.polygon.com
What makes Oddworld tick - Polygon
One of the minds behind the Oddworld universe shares his storytelling philosophies and inspirations as he works on the Abe's Exoddus reimagining Soulstorm.
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www.polygon.com
Wipeout's co-creator looks back at three decades of racing games
The never-ending chase after Nintendo
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arstechnica.com
Easter eggs evolved: Why gamers spent 3-years-plus studying GTAV’s Mount Chiliad
Just below the peak of Mount Chiliad, a huge mountain in the far north of San Andreas, a mysterious mural sits high atop a cliff face. It looks like a map of the mountain's interior—a network of tunnels that connect five small chambers and three large ones with what appear to be a UFO, an egg, and a jetpack within them. Whether it's actually ...