Krystian Majewski
Website: http://www.krystian.de
3D Makes Games Look Like Toys
Recently at Cologne Game Lab, we got ourselves a 3D flat-screen. We weren’t actually specifically interested in 3D. We had to buy some flat-screens for our students and simply decided to go with something that would be 3D compatible just in case. But it gave me the opportunity to re-evaluate the status quo on stereoscopic [...]
Playing War
Some time ago there has been some outrage in the US about the upcoming Medal of Honor game and how it portrays the war in Iraq. On a weird hypocritical note, the specific problem was that players would be able to play as virtual Taliban and shoot at virtual US Soldiers.
I wonder, why are those people [...]
Tintin on the Moon
And now to something completely different. I recently bough and read two The Adventures of Tintin comics. The big fat space geek I am, they are of course the two comics about Tintin’s trip to the moon. I think I read a Tintin comic when I was young but I could hardly remember it. I [...]
Monster Hunter Podcast Episode 6
We are back! There is a new Episode of the Monster Hunter Podcast up. This time we discuss what you can do in single-player mode to get better in multi-player. Unfortunately, we had some technical difficulties this time and the audio cuts out a couple of times. Also we were short on time so we [...]
That Asteroid Video
A couple of people were nice enough to suggest I check out this recent movie. I did and of course I’d like to share it with you as well. Space geekout!
(Protip: go HD)
So what are we seeing here? We see the position of known asteroids in our Solar System from 1980 – 2010 in extreme time-lapse. But we only [...]
TRAUMA At IndieCade
With the recent press release it is official! TRAUMA, the game I’m currently working on, has been chosen to be one of this year’s IndieCade Festival finalists!
I’m making a note here: “Huge Success!”
To say that I’m really excited would be a extreme understatement. IGF was a big thing but I almost had the impression it was just [...]
Alors, je suis revenu!
Bonjour! I’m back from vacation! It turns out that free Wi-Fi wasn’t quite as prolific on camping places in France after all. Also, it turned out that one is quite able to fill their day just with packing the tent, traveling to the next camping place, setting up the tent, being on the beach, shopping [...]
Portable Gaming Devices
It turns out the camping place where I stay for the first two nights has some WiFi. This means that I can theoretically do a couple of updates.
Being on the road always makes you more aware of portable devices and their limitations. I was considering not taking any gaming devices with me. But with the iPhone, [...]
Fukcing Spaghetti
So the other day I have received a package from @SebWuepper. He sent me a can of Heinz Spaghetti in tomato sauce. I did the only responsible thing I could think of. I went on a bridge an photographed with with the Cologne Cathedral in the background. I also added some copulating LEGO minifigs as [...]
Learning in StarCraft II
I almost transitioned completely into the multi-player mode of StarCraft II. There is hardly anything more the single-player mode has to offer for me. But it delivered in spades. Maybe not so much in terms of storytelling. However it is an amazing example of a incredibly well design campaign and a fascinating campaign structure. I [...]
