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  • Versus CluClu Land: How Game Design is like Architecture
    "Well-designed games make us forget the technical impediments to the enjoyment of art, and this is more than half the battle."
    (tags: games play design architecture compromise craft )
  • Copy Paste Character
    Yes.
    (tags: useful typography unicode characters punctuation copypaste )
  • KeyCue – find, remember, and learn menu shortcuts
    "KeyCue gives you an instant overview of the overall functionality of any application, plus lets you automatically start working more efficiently by making use of menu shortcuts." Awesome. Really, really awesome. I might well end up registering this.
    (tags: mac utility osx application tool reference )
  • exljbris :: Free Quality Font Foundry
    Jos Buivenga's font foundry, with many free faces (usually in a few weights – other weights are paid-for). Some beautiful stuff in here.
    (tags: font typography type face download free design )
  • Museo Sans™ font family : MyFonts
    Beautiful, free, sans-serif font. Gorgeous – especially at 900-weight.
    (tags: font typography museo josbuivenga free sansserif )
  • Gamasutra – AGDC: Building Battlefield Heroes , EA's First Free To Play Game
    "His advice for those attempting a project like this, is to get people who understand the web. DICE hired a web development director, and a web producer. "Without those people, we would have never made it as far as we have," he says. He also recommends a web tech director, which DICE did not need to hire "because we had a team in DICE who were pretty strong."" Excellent article about building games for the online age; the section on the socially-driven BH website is very incisive.
    (tags: battlefieldheroes dice ea games development casual online web social )
  • Bandcamp
    "Bandcamp isn’t Yet Another Place to Put Your Music. We power a site that’s yours. So instead of our logo plastered between banner ads for Sexy Singles Chat, your fans see your design, your music, your name, your URL. You retain all ownership rights, and we just hang out in the background handling the tech stuff." Via Waxy; looks really excellent, and some wonderful stat-gathering tools for bandowners.
    (tags: music web application publishing distribution band startup )

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