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Frankel & Co. release Ninjam for transcontinental jam sessions
by Jordan Running Jul 13th 2005 at 9:31PM
Justin Frankel, creator of Winamp, and his new company Cockos, Inc., have released the first alpha of Ninjam, "a program to allow people to make real music together via the Internet." Ninjam is a quirky project that's difficult to explain, so you might be better off just heading over to the web site and reading it yourself. Ninjam deals with latency by exaggerating it completely, so the musicians aren't playing together in real-time; instead, each plays along with the measures their parners played a few seconds ago. It sounds weird, and may be black magic, but black magic and rock & roll go together like Celene Dion and laryngitis.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Victor Agreda, Jr. said 10:23PM on 7-13-2005
Sounds like a virtual drum circle...
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