Published on: 2025-05-12 00:20:49
Hi HN, I teach tech design history, and one of the key stories I cover is the development of the original iPhone keyboard by Ken Kocienda. Reading about it in his book "Creative Selection" is great, but I wanted my students (and now you!) to actually feel this step in the process. So, I built a web simulator of the "Blob Keyboard", Kocienda's very first attempt at a touchscreen keyboard that actually works, from September 2005: Try the Blob Keyboard: https://juliendorra.github.io/blob-keyboar
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A steady stream (sorry) of expansions has helped keep the terrific PowerWash Simulator in the zeitgeist over the last couple of years, but developer FuturLab has been beavering away on a sequel as well. You won't have to wait too long for it either, as PowerWash Simulator 2 is slated to debut later this year. The follow-up has a fresh campaign mode that picks up from where the first game left off, new locations to make scum-free, enhanced soap(!) and the option to customize your home base, whic
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is a reporter who covers the business, culture, and communities of video games, with a focus on marginalized gamers and the quirky, horny culture of video game communities. There are a lot of “simulator” games out there that gamify everything from driving your own big rig to running your own Japanese convenience store. Some of them hit, like the one about being a goat which is on its third iteration. And some of them hit like PowerWash Simulator which is getting a sequel slated for release late
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One of the most impressive games of the 80s was Sublogic’s Flight Simulator. I never played this back then, but the Atari 8-bit version was highly regarded. In a recent game lot purchase from Facebook Marketplace one of the games that included was Flight Simulator II, the cartridge for the Atari XE Game System. Before I take a closer look at that, let’s dive into Flight Simulator itself. Origin Flight Simulator (original name: A2-FS1 Flight Simulator) was created by Bruce Artwick and Stu Mom
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