#rovio — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #rovio, aggregated by home.social.
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The "Searchlight Books™ - The World of Gaming" collection has now been catalogued in #TheVideoGameLibrary! 📚
💡 While often bundled as 3 books in the set (#Minecraft / #Pokemon / #Mario), there's actually a 4th for #AngryBirds! 👇
https://thevideogamelibrary.org/blog/hashtags/LernerPublishingGroup
#Gaming #VideoGames #VideoGame #Game #Gamer #Fun #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon #Pikachu #Mario #Yoshi #Red #Steve #Learning #Education #WorldOfGaming #LernerBooks #Nintendo #Mojang #Rovio
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Haunted Owlbear's Halloween Games, 2022/10/03 - Darkest Fear trilogy (Rovio, 2005-2006)
Before the rise and fall of Angry Birds, Rovio produced a number of Java phone games, of which the shining jewel (or most tenebrous void?) was undoubtedly the Darkest Fear series.
Hybrid survival horror puzzle adventure games with a genuinely haunting atmosphere, the Darkest Fear games all use a top-down isometric perspective as you navigate the map and static or lightly animated photobashed cutscenes.
The primary puzzle mechanic ties in with narrative themes of (literal) darkness and light as you use illumination puzzles to safely traverse each area, save other inhabitants from a mysterious virus, and confront what nightmarish monstrosities may lie waiting in the dark.
There's also a bit of light sokobanning as you punt crates and rocks around to clear paths, and a handful of action sequences. Although some of these involve more dodging than you might necessarily like, they're rare and the games' difficulty curve is generally pretty casual.
The first game begins at a hospital that has been plunged into an eerie darkness. Thomas Warden is summoned to Grim Oak hospital by his wife, a doctor there. He finds the place shadow-haunted, deserted by its staff and, soon, haunted by hideous monsters. At a couple of key points, your choices and the equipment you carry make a difference to how the plot unfolds and who you can save.
Set five years after the first game, Darkest Fear 2: Grim Oak gives you more monsters to evade and more light sources to take advantage of. There's greater emphasis on object puzzles, giving a light adventure game vibe to the proceedings. You finally get to leave the hospital and explore the town of Grim Oak. Graphics are more varied and the world is relatively open, giving you some choice in the order that you explore in.
The final instalment, Darkest Fear: Nightmare, introduces a second playable character who must cling to the darkness for safety as fervently Warden must keep to the light. You can switch between them to tackle puzzles suited to their unique skill-sets, and, as the overarching series narrative concludes, a total of 15 different endings can be achieved. This third entry in the series uses some particularly nice lighting effects and has generally more polished graphics.
Although the first installment was available on iOS for a while, the J2ME editions can safely be regarded as definitive. You can and should treat these as successive chapters of the same game.
Although they deal with horrific themes and bear a Mature rating, the stylised graphics leave most of the unpleasantness to your imagination.
The entire series combines a sometimes janky, yet atmospheric, plot with gratifying puzzles, solid level design, and excellent use of their target devices' limited graphical capabilities. They play nicely on modern Android devices thanks to J2ME Loader.
You can still watch the 2006 trailer for Darkest Fear 3 on the official Angry Birds channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_9G2Z86XtM
Download Darkest Fear - https://phoneky.com/games/?id=j4j48955
Download Darkest Fear 2: Grim Oak - https://phoneky.com/games/?id=j4j50535
Download Darkest Fear 3: Nightmare - https://phoneky.com/games/?id=j4j38391
Play on Android/derivatives with J2ME Loader via F-Droid (https://f-droid.org/en/packages/ru.playsoftware.j2meloader/) or Google Play (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.playsoftware.j2meloader&gl=US).
#Spooktober #HalloweenGames #Halloween #October #Horror #DarkestFear #Rovio #J2ME #JavaMobileGames #SurivivalHorror #puzzle #RetroGaming #isometricart
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3D model provider CGTrader raises $9.5M Series B led by Evli Growth Partners - 3D model provider CGTrader, has raised $9.5M in a Series B funding led by Finnish VC fund Evli Growt... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/TLb0QUwrPZc/ #artificialintelligence #computergraphics #image-processing #practicacapital #karmaventures #visualeffects #crate&barrel #shutterstock #3dmodeling #e-commerce #microsoft #cgtrader #designer #graphics #made.com #arsenal #staples #europe #rovio #nike
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Northzone’s Paul Murphy goes deep on the next era of gaming - As the gaming market continues to boom, billions of dollars are being invested in new games and new ... more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/JWd4LAM0HnA/ #unity-technologies #leagueoflegends #venturecapital #virtualreality #electronicarts #nintendoswitch #mobilegaming #angrybirds #candycrush #paulmurphy #supercell #startups #esports #netflix #tencent #gaming #sports #talent #amazon #google #stadia #media #rovio
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Weekly output: video surveillance, privacy vs. security, Facebook listening, universal basic income, intelligent assistants, convenience economy, UberAir, privacy fears
Once again, I’m at an airport. I got back from Web Summit on Friday, and now I’m headed to San Francisco for the Internet Association’s Virtuous Circle conference. This trip, however, will be a lot shorter than the last one: I fly back Wednesday.
11/6/2017: ‘Smart’ surveillance cameras should set off privacy alarms, Yahoo Finance
The advances in machine vision I saw demonstrated at the Nvidia GPU Tech Conference in D.C. last week both impressed and alarmed me–especially when I heard some of the responses of executives at companies bringing these artificial-intelligence technologies to the market.
11/7/2017: Debate: We should be prepared to give up our privacy for security, Web Summit
My first Web Summit panel was a debate between Threatscape managing director Dermot Williams and Federal Trade Commission commissioner Terrell McSweeny. I expected a one-sided audience vote at the end in favor of privacy, but Williams changed a few minds. There should be video of this somewhere, but I’ve yet to find it on Web Summit’s Facebook page.
11/8/2017: Why so many people still think Facebook is listening to them, Yahoo Finance
I’d had this post in the works for a while, and then CNN’s Laurie Segall asked Facebook’s Messenger head Stan Chudnovsky in a Summit panel about the persistent rumor that Facebook’s apps listen surreptitiously to your conversations. Hello, news peg.
11/8/2017: Double focus: IPO’s & the future of games, Web Summit
My contribution to Web Summit’s Wednesday programming was this interview of Rovio CEO Kati Levoranta. As you can probably guess from watching the video below, I exhausted my questions early on and had to improv a bunch of it.
11/9/2017: Why would you oppose Universal Basic Income?, Web Summit
This panel, held at one of the small stages in Web Summit’s speakers lounge, featured Basic Income Earth Network co-president Guy Standing, Kela change management director Marjukka Turunen, GiveDirectly CEO Michael Faye, and Portuguese foreign minister Augusto Santos Silva. Not having taken part in any extended debate on this topic before, I learned a few things from this conversation.
11/9/2017: The next evolution of intelligent assistants, Web Summit
I quizzed Sherpa founder Xabi Uribe-Etxebarria about what he thinks the likes of Amazon, Apple and Google miss in the AI-personal-assistant market and how he hopes to carve out a niche with his own app.
11/9/2017: Demand more: Driving the convenience economy, Web Summit
The last of Thursday’s three panels had me interviewing Trivago co-founder and CEO Rolf Schromgens and Casper co-founder Luke Sherwin about how each is trying to challenge long-established competitors. This panel featured an unexpected technical difficulty: The acoustics made it hard for Schromgens, seated farther away from me on the stage, to hear me.
11/9/2017: Uber’s grand plan for flying cars faces a major obstacle, Yahoo Finance
One of first thoughts about “UberAir” was something along the lines of “you’re really going to get the FAA to open up the national air system to flocks of new electric-powered air taxis?” A conversation over e-mail with aviation-safety expert Bob Mann led me to believe Uber is being predictably optimistic about the odds of it bending government regulators to its will.
11/12/2017: Web companies should make it easier to make your data portable: FTC’s McSweeny. USA Today
This column about the privacy discussions that carried on all week long in Lisbon benefited from a little luck: My debate partner from day one was on both of my flights back from Lisbon and even sat a row behind me on the EWR-DCA hop, so we had a quick chat after arriving at National Airport before she headed to the parking garage and I got on Metro.
Updated 11/27/2017 to add an embed of video of my first Web Summit panel.
#AI #Alexa #AngryBirds #Casper #FacebookListening #FacebookPrivacy #FacebookTracking #FTC #GoogleAssistant #InternetAssociation #Lisbon #machineLearning #machineVision #NvidiaGPU #Rovio #Sherpa #Siri #Trivago #universalBasicIncome #VirtuousCircle #WebSummit
