There's no question that the Nintendo Wii has taken the video game industry by storm. It was nearly impossible to find one this past Christmas and the units continue to fly off the shelves. Recently, we have received a lot of emails from people wonde...
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Nintendo Wii Classic Controller clearly exemplifies the technical expertise and creativity of its manufacturer, Nintendo.
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When thinking of something development-related (and interesting!) I could post as guest editor this week, I decided connecting to notable game developers - and getting them to spill the beans about what games inspired them growing up - would be a neat thing to do.
So, the first of these micro-Q&As chats to Brian Reynolds, CEO of Big Huge Games, and co-creator of classic strategy games including Civilization II and Alpha Centauri (while at Microprose), Rise Of Nations - and even the Xbox Live Arcade version of Catan. What classic title made him the designer he is today? You can find out after the jump... What was the first video game you were ever inspired by, growing up?
The "Original Adventure" (also known in later years as the Colossal Cave Adventure -- you know, the bird and the snake and XYZZY).
When and where did you play it?
At my father's office in about 1979. He worked at a defense contractor and would take me to work on the weekends sometimes when he was in an overtime crunch. I'd sit at the terminal of the PDP-11 they had there (a minicomputer with a CPU-plus-hard-drive unit about the size of a tall thin refrigerator) and play. Even more fun was playing on the teletype, where you could go back over the "transcript" of your play at the end.
How did it make you feel?
It made me desperately want to make my own games. So desperate that I sat and read the entire FORTRAN manual and started doing it! I wrote all kinds of games in junior high school and even sold one to Softside Magazine for $200 in 1981, which seemed like a lot of money to me at the time. Needless to say the money bought me more memory for my home computer which I'd finally gotten that year.
How did it influence your future game making?
I made "text adventures" for years after that, and learned much of my programming skills doing it (including a complete BASIC port of the Original Adventure, the FORTRAN source for which I'd discovered on the PDP, and an assembly language adventure game of my own design which I signed with Avalon Hill - though it was never released because of the imminent death of the TRS-80, and my being too young to afford other computers to port it onto!)
Thinking of the Colossal Cave still brings back the original joy-of-computer-games to me, particularly the wide-open world of creating your own games. Back in those days if you wanted to play a computer game you mostly had to make it yourself, which was a great starting point for ending up doing this for a living.
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A baby white lion, born on October 14, 2007, sleeps in a compound at the Olmense Zoo in Olmen, Belgium, October 18, 2007. Photo REUTERS / Yves Herman (Belgium)
White lions are not albinos. The white color is caused by a recessive gene known as chinchilla or color inhibitor. They vary from blonde through to near white, but some can also be red. This coloration gives white lions a distinct disadvantage in nature because they are highly visible. It’s been perpetuated by selective breeding in zoos around the world. Inbreeding often leads to birth defects, which makes breeding for white tigers highly controversial.
The white lion is occasionally found in wildlife reserves in South Africa and is a rare color mutation of the Kruger subspecies. White lions are nearly extinct.
White lions are not a separate subspecies and they have never been common in the wild. White cubs occasionally turn up among tawny lions in the Timbavati and Kruger National Park regions. Because the gene is recessive and is masked by the normal tawny color, white lions remain rare in the wild and only occur when two lions carrying the mutant gene are mated together. The greatest population of white lions is in zoos where they are deliberately bred for color.
She-Devil, a 3 week old Capucin monkey, lays on her mother Impie’s shoulder at the Olmense Zoo in Olmen, Belgium October 18, 2007. Photo REUTERS / Yves Herman (Belgium)
Capucins or capuchins are considered the most intelligent of the New World monkeys. Their name comes from their coloration, which resembles the cowls worn by the Franciscan Capuchin order of Catholic friars.
The range of the capuchin monkeys includes Central America, middle Brazil, eastern Peru, and Paraguay.
Their body, arms, legs and tail are all black or brown in color, while the face, throat and chest are white or brown colored, with a black cap on their heads. The big toe and thumb are opposable. They reach a length of 12 - 22 inches (30 to 56 centimeters), with tails that are just as long as the body. They weigh up nearly 3 pounds (1.3 kilos),
A baby Mandrill clings to its mother in the Budapest Zoo in Budapest, Hungary, October 9, 2007. It’s 1 of 3 baby Mandrills born at the end of last summer in this zoo that controls and coordinates an international revival and breeding program to preserve this endangered ape species native in Western Africa. AP Photo / MTI, Barnabas Honeczy
Newborn Mandrill (Mandrill Sphinx) is held by its mother at the Budapest Zoo. Photo REUTERS / Karoly Arvai (Hungary)
4 month old chimpanzee Izzy sits next to her mother Maha Bieke at the Olmense Zoo in Olmen, Belgium October 18, 2007. Photo REUTERS / Yves Herman (Belgium)
A three-week-old Patas Monkey looks at his mother as he is introduced to the public for the first time in the Budapest Zoo, Budapest, Hungary, Monday, October 15, 2007. AP Photo /MTI, Barnabas Honeczy
In this photo released by the Zoological Society of San Diego, a 1 month old, endangered Bonobo is fed by her caretakers at the San Diego Zoo, October 9, 2007. Mali, which translates to ’something valuable’ in Swahili, was born on September 4th. Her mother experienced birth difficulties, so Zoo veterinarians and keepers had to quickly intervene to ensure the baby’s survival. Although she was in critical condition the first couple weeks, she’s reportedly doing well. AP Photo / Zoological Society of San Diego, Ken Bohn
Differences
Anatomical differences between the Common Chimpanzee and the Bonobo are slight, but in sexual and social behavior there are marked differences. Common Chimpanzees have an omnivorous diet, a troop hunting culture based on beta males led by an alpha male, and highly complex social relationships.
Bonobos have a mainly herbivorous diet and an egalitarian, matriarchal, sexually receptive behavior. The exposed skin of the face, hands and feet varies from pink to very dark in both species, but is generally lighter in younger individuals, darkening as they mature. Bonobos have proportionately longer upper limbs and tend to walk upright more often than the Common Chimpanzee.
In this photo provided by the San Diego Zoo, San Diego Zoo nutritionist Dr. Michael Schlegel measures the continued growth of the Zoo’s 11 week old Giant Panda cub during her weekly veterinary exam on October 17, 2007, in San Diego. AP Photo / San Diego Zoo, Ken Bohn
The cub measured 1.8 feet long and weighed 8.6 pounds. The development in the San Diego Zoo’s newborn cub continues to add to the bank of information gathered on giant panda growth and the relationship between a mother and cub at the Zoo’s Giant Panda Research Station. The cub and mother can be viewed live daily through Panda Cam at www.sandiegozoo.org.
Giant panda Yang Yang holds her 1 month old cub as they rest in their enclosure in the zoo in Vienna September 27, 2007. The cub was born on August 23, 127 days after panda couple Yang Yang and Long Hui mated in April. The pandas were transferred from China to Schoenbrunn Zoo in 2003, and are on loan to Austria by China for a period of 10 years. Photo REUTERS / Tiergarten Schoenbrunn / Handout (Austria)
1 month old cub of Giant Panda Yang Yang rests in the zoo in Vienna September 26, 2007. Photo REUTERS / Eveline Dungl / Tiergarten Schoenbrunn / Handout (Austria)
A 1 week old male Black Rhinoceros calf (Diceros Bicornis) and his 22 year old mother named ‘Christa’ at the Caldwell Zoo in Tyler, Texas, October 4, 2007. This is her fourth calf born in captivity in this zoo, as part of the endangered species survival program. AP Photos / Dr. Scott M. Lieberman
The Black Rhinoceros is native to the eastern and central areas of Africa including Kenya, Tanzania, Cameroon, South Africa, Namibia and Zimbabwe. Although the Rhino is referred to as a ‘Black’ creature, it’s actually more of a grey-white color.
An adult Black Rhinoceros stands (58 to 63 inches (147 to 160 centimeters) high at the shoulder and 11 to 12 feet (3.3 to 3.6 meters) in length. An adult male Black Rhinoceros may have a penis as long as 2.3 ft. long. The female Black Rhinoceros doesn’t look for this in a male, much like humans. An adult weighs from (1,760 to 3,080 pounds (800 to 1400 kilos), and as much as 4,000 pounds, Two horns on the skull are made of keratin with the larger front horn typically 20 inches (50 centimeters) long, up to 56 inches (140 centimeters). Occasionally a 3rd smaller horn may develop.
A two-week old Okapi stands beside its mother at an enclosure in Berlin zoo October 5, 2007. Photos REUTERS / Arnd Wiegmann (Germany)
The Okapi is a mammal native strictly to the Ituri forests in the north east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Africa. Although it bears striped markings similar to the zebra, it’s most closely related to the giraffe, except that okapis have much shorter necks.
Both species have very long blue tongues about 12 inches (30 centimeters) that they use to strip leaves and buds from trees. It’s long enough for the animal to wash its eyelids and one of the few mammals that can lick its own ears. Male okapis have short, skin-covered horns called ‘ossicones’. They have large ears, which help them detect their predator, the leopard.
Okapis are 8.1 feet (1.9 to 2.5 meters) long and stand 6.5 feet (1.5 to 2.0 meters high at the shoulder with a 12 to 17 inch (30 to 42 centimeter) long tail, and weigh from 465 to 550 pounds (200 to 250 kilos).
A baby puma cub (cougar) born in captivity and considered an endangered species is seen at the National Zoo in Managua October 2, 2007. Photo REUTERS / Oswaldo Rivas (Nicaragua)
Chinese Leopard cubs peer out from a basket during a naming ceremony at the Tierpark Hagenbeck Zoo in Hamburg September 28, 2007. The two female cubs Li Mei and Jiao and their brother Tschingis where born at the Zoo on August 24, 2007. Photo REUTERS / Christian Charisius (Germany)
A young grant’s zebra stands beside its mother Regina at the zoo in Wuppertal September 26, 2007. The little zebra was born on September 14 and its mother Regina was also born in the zoo of Wuppertal 16 years ago. Photos REUTERS / Ina Fassbender (Germany)
This subspecies is found in Zambia west of the Luangwa river and west to Kariba, Shaba Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, north to the Kibanzao Plateau, Tanzania north from Nyangaui and Kibwezi into southwestern Kenya as fas as Sotik. It can also be found in eastern Kenya and east of the Rift Valley into southernmost Ethiopia.
Recent civil wars in Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, Ethiopia, and Uganda have caused dramatic declines in all wildlife populations, including those of Grant’s Zebra. It’s now extinct in Burundi. Civil war in Angola during much of the past 25 years has devastated its wildlife populations, and destroyed the national parks administration and infrastructure. Consequently, the Grant’s Zebra is probably extinct or nearly so in Angola, although confirmation will have to wait until future surveys are conducted.
Dolphin baby Dolly (left) swims with her mother Delphi in the Delphinarium at the zoo in Duisburg September 24, 2007. Dolly was born on August 4, 2007 and her mother Delphi was also born in the zoo of Duisburg 15 years ago. Photo REUTERS / Ina Fassbender (Germany)
A young Pigmy Hippopotamus at the zoo in Duisburg September 24, 2007, born on July 7, 2007. Photo REUTERS / Ina Fassbender (Germany)
A young Kamchatka brown bear plays in its enclosure at the Tierpark Hagenbeck Zoo in Hamburg September 20, 2007. The 4 9 month old bears, one female and three male who recently arrived from Moscow zoo have yet to be named. Photo REUTERS / Christian Charisius (Germany)
A young flamingo stands next to adults in their enclosure at Zurich’s zoo September 19, 2007. Photo REUTERS / Christian Hartmann (Switzerland)
Source: Wikipedia
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