New article: Breaking into making games

An interesting article on Develop from the maker of Canabalt: Breaking into making games

Creative Portal 2 level design

Presumably the man who commissioned this Portal 2 level and the woman to whom he wished to propose marriage are big Portal fans. Boing Boing wrote it up:

http://boingboing.net/2011/08/23/engagement-proposal-as-an-elaborate-portal-2-level.html

or you can go straight to the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8SdYz7cq04&feature=player_embedded

or download the Portal 2 level:

http://www.tophattwaffle.com/?p=2793

It has custom narration by GLaDOS (Ellen McLain) authorized by VALVe.

Unlimited Detail 3D Graphics Technology

Imaginary Z directed me toward the Euclideon unlimited detail 3D graphics technology demo (http://www.euclideon.com/). It looks very interesting. They have a new demo video up as of August 4. Are you ready to create "fictional" and "non-fictional" 3D models without polygon limits?

Katamari Damacy for the web

Paste the following code into the Chrome command line to turn any web page into Katamari Damacy:

javascript:var i,s,ss=['http://kathack.com/js/kh.js','http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5.1/jquery.min.js'];for(i=0;i!=ss.length;i++){s=document.createElement('script');s.src=ss[i];document.body.appendChild(s);}void(0);