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Level 5 + Studio Ghibli = Nerdsplosion!

Trygve — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 23:11:52 +0000

“Ni no Kuni” is Studio Ghibli’s first attempt at a video game along side the wonderful development studio Level 5 (Professor Layton series), and it is going to be released on the Nintendo DS and PS3. There will be hand animated cutscenes, and a soundtrack by Joe Hisaishi, who composed almost all the soundtracks for Miyazaki’s films. They haven’t announced a US release, but they have to … right? Where is John Lassiter!?

Cutscene:
Gameplay:

Erasing Footsteps during a Snowlift

Trygve — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 17:43:08 +0000

Snow stepping. from Trygve Nordberg on Vimeo.

The Minnesota Waltz in the beautiful snow storm last night. Something’s off here…

NPR’s Sunday Puzzle vs. ActionScript 3

Trygve — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 07:35:53 +0000

Today I was listening to podcasts and came across this week’s Sunday Puzzler. Take a listen…

A doozie!
Well, I got a little idea to solve it new-school by letting the do computer the work.

All I needed to do was find a list of countries in the world, then make a little app that could read that list and compare the country names against each other. Evil genius laugh…

Three possible answers! That is TWO more than the “puzzle master” Will Shorts found! PaChow!

I’ll be swimming in NPR lapel pins come this Sunday.
English comments along with puzzle-solver code here.

Million Dollar Napkin

Trygve — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:44:25 +0000

Brenda’s grad party turned into a marketing think tank, and Allison was smart enough to document it on a napkin which I later found in the trash.
Patents pending.

Hi, I’m Trygve.

Trygve — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:07:56 +0000

Someone left this in my scanner.