Simon Willison’s Weblog

Just One More Grim Thing (via) Tim Schafer releases 72 pages of design documentation for Grim Fandango, my all-time favourite computer game.

Update 18th Feb 2025: That blog entry is no longer available, but Gameshelf preserved a copy of the PDF.

# 7:51 pm / game-design, games, grim-fandango, tim-schafer

Code your own election mashup with Google’s JSON data. The data that powered Google’s US election results map is available to download as a bunch of JSON files.

# 8:24 pm / data, google, json, uselection

It’s a purple world. Stuart Langridge made a purplish map of the US election results, using JSON data from Google and an SVG map of the US from Wikipedia.

# 8:26 pm / stuart-langridge, svg, uselection, wikipedia