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[7:16:14 PM] Will Kirkby: http://kirk.by/s/1484d77030d [7:16:19 PM] Will Kirkby: I AM SO DONE WITH THIS WEBSITE [7:16:45 PM] High Weedmeigh: *sigh* [7:17:37 PM] Alcom Isst: Crowd source comedy is best comedy. [7:18:52 PM] Will Kirkby: Kickstarter and Indiegogo run a bar. [7:19:08 PM] Will Kirkby: Everybody walks in and pays for the promise of a drink at some indeterminate point in the future [7:19:15 PM] Will Kirkby: Several do not receive their drinks. [7:21:21 PM] Alcom Isst: Several still do though, but with mixed results. Some got their drinks but half full, and were promised the other half later. [7:21:35 PM | Edited 7:21:46 PM] bartvbl: Others are wondering what on earth they're drinking [7:22:32 PM] Will Kirkby: The best part is this works on multiple levels [7:22:40 PM] Will Kirkby: we just crowdsourced a joke about crowdsourcing. [7:22:47 PM] bartvbl:

And in a web browser... Anyway. http://home.comcast.net/~josephmknight/lego-vv.htm http://home.comcast.net/~josephmknight/turbo.htm http://www.vertexia.com/Hot_Mix_18/vendors/multigen/news/hot/current/lego.8.6.96.html http://www.josephmknight.com/lego.html http://www.josephmknight.com/virtual.html (Holy crap, I played that Nascar game at a relative's house as a little kid! Loved it!) http://www.josephmknight.com/tools.html http://www.thefreelibrary.com/MultiGen+announces+availability+and+pricing+for+SmartScene,+an...-a018561487 Moar.

Is this what you dare to deploy against me?! This is not an offensive! This is more fuel for the FIRE!

If you haven't yet had a chance to look through Brick by Brick, the recent book by David C. Robertson, I highly recommend it. Amongst other things it deals with LEGO's first forays in the digital world, through internal project they titled Darwin. According to the book (to the best of my memory, I don't currently have access to it to check), Darwin began when a Swedish man paid a visit to LEGO HQ. He insisted that he meet with Kjeld, and eventually got his wish. What he had to share was a highly impressive 3D animation featuring LEGO spaceships. The goal of project Darwin was to create a complete library of digital LEGO bricks, perfect in every detail. Then, to use these bricks to create a system for developing videos, games, and any number of computer-based paraphernalia LEGO could wish for. After many years of testing and playing with numerous concepts, and huge investments on LEGO's part, the company realized that technology was too limited to get them where they wanted fast enough. In addition, the employees on the Darwin team were being perceived by others to be receiving special treatment from the company, creating an ugly divide that made cooperation difficult. In 1998, LEGO Media was established, and quickly replaced Darwin and all of LEGO's ambitions related to it with a new aim of outsourcing to other companies to produce games. But that isn't why I'm here, posting this topic. I'm here because someone on the Bricklink forum just linked to The LEGO Movie - not the upcoming feature film, but what appears to be the original animation that inspired LEGO to launch Darwin. This animation, then, is the basis of everything LEGO has since done digitally. But that isn't all. Here is a window into some of the work that went on during the days of the Darwin project.

Enslave everyone and ban the ones from RRU that don't meet the deadlines! Yes this is a joke post. Don't take it seriously.

Bari Sax here. Just need to find the time to pull out my behemoth and so a sample recording for you.

I am both interested and disturbed.

I am sorry that I post in this old thread. But I would like to share: Princess Leia likes soccer I made thisi test last year in december. But my computer does not like the game.

Thank you, jamesster. EDIT: Read this edit because aaaaaaaa LEGO Friends was originally being developed by Darwin for LEGO Media before it was handed over to Ivanoff, and was called Klik Chix. This means that other LEGO Media titles may have had their roots in Darwin projects. EDIT part 2:

https://www.talisman.org/~erlkonig/lego/lego-on-sgis/Main.html And now for a goldmine: http://www.spu-darwin.org/ http://www.spu-darwin.org/wordpress/ https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/spu-darwin/info Particularly this: http://www.spu-darwin.org/galapagos/ I haven't even read through everything in these archives yet - it's just staggering. Details on their work, info and progress reports on various projects, day to day life working in the group... Read it. Read it all. These guys were crazily ambitious.

[9/3/14 8:43:14 PM] Alcom Isst: FoV? [9/3/14 8:43:19 PM] Alcom Isst: FoV. [9/3/14 8:43:25 PM] Alcom Isst: FOV! [9/3/14 8:43:34 PM] Hugh Wotmeigh: Either they set the FoV really tiny, or they love sticking the camera RIGHT into everybody's face. [9/3/14 8:43:45 PM] Alcom Isst: YES! ALCOM WINS! [9/3/14 8:43:54 PM] Hugh Wotmeigh: THAT f****ING MOUTH SHOT [9/3/14 8:43:54 PM] Hugh Wotmeigh: Later, [9/3/14 9:13:01 PM] Hugh Wotmeigh: Woah [9/3/14 9:13:01 PM] Hugh Wotmeigh: Wait [9/3/14 9:13:20 PM] Hugh Wotmeigh: Malaysia Airlines did a "Bucket List" promotional campaign? [9/3/14 9:13:24 PM] jamesster: yes. [9/3/14 9:13:28 PM] Hugh Wotmeigh: WHAT [9/3/14 9:13:49 PM] jamesster: as somebody on reddit put it, they lost both of their hands, then somehow managed to shoot themselves in the foot [9/3/14 9:14:08 PM] Hugh Wotmeigh: [9/3/14 9:14:21 PM] Hugh Wotmeigh: That's f****ing beautiful.

Uh... ... And quite a bit more after that. Anyway: https://plus.google.com/+VictorBonillaVisioneer/videos There's more than that one video you linked. Edit: As with the others, I've re-uploaded these to YouTube in case the originals go down for whatever reason:

Hmmm... Those first two images didn't really grab me, but the other box sets are actually quite nice. I just don't like the Steve minifigure. However, it wasn't long after I looked at these sets before I thought... Kids buy LEGO sets of franchises to take part in those franchises themselves, or to build stuff with them related to the franchises. Example: You'd buy a Star Wars set to experience the action yourself, and also to build your own space ships. Yet Minecraft is a game, hence you already play it, and is an infinite sandbox building game, so... Is there really any need for it to be reproduced in plastic with little dots on top?

I'm apologize for re-awakening a dead topic, but I recently came across something which is very much relevant to this topic and which I thought you guys would be quite interested in. While doing some research on the Darwin project, I noticed that in the corner of one if the shots, there was a "SZM Studios" watermark. Following up on that, I was able to cone across this which was posted by one of the workers on the Darwin project. https://r2---sn-ab5l6n7k.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?requiressl=yes&shardbypass=yes&cmbypass=yes&id=b994e82fa85632d7&itag=18&source=picasa&ip=71.192.10.57&ipbits=0&expire=1412363194&sparams=cmbypass,expire,id,ip,ipbits,itag,mm,ms,mv,requiressl,shardbypass,source&signature=2C91F891810F381D7512BE91F016079FBC16DAFE.28B1B263EB2059A4A3888CC863511390EE4B50B9&key=cms1&cms_redirect=yes&mm=30&ms=nxu&mt=1409771164&mv=m (Sorry for the long link)

Thanks Grappigegovert. This is just exactly what I needed and this will give the project a real boost since I got stuck with the NPC racers. I hope to find some time to play with this project again (school starts tomorrow). Edit: I have just tried this out, and it is really just a really big missing piece that I can now implement into the software so we can create a real natural experience. Thanks again, this is incredible research. Thanks to Grappigegoverts awesome work, we've made some massive improvement in the project. Please check out the following video:

I played trombone from the beginning 5th grade to the end of 9th grade and still have mine. (actually its my dads from when he played(yeah its old(wow I'm getting pretty deep in parenthesis here))) I also have brothers that played trumpet and alto saxophone (although you don't need alto sax). However the things that aren't available at the moment is a good microphone, my brothers as they are at college,and my skill as I always was generally sucky. You just need simple notes though, in good tone so If I can borrow my friends microphone then I MIGHT be able to get some stuff recorded, but maybe not because I'm kinda busy. tldr; there is about a 20% chance I can give you some recordings (math not calculated professionally )