{"id":371,"date":"2005-09-29T17:05:15","date_gmt":"2005-09-29T17:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=371"},"modified":"2005-09-29T17:05:15","modified_gmt":"2005-09-29T17:05:15","slug":"nyc2123_a_graphic_novel_for_ps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2005\/09\/29\/nyc2123_a_graphic_novel_for_ps\/","title":{"rendered":"nyc2123: a graphic novel for psp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dayender.jpg\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/dayender.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"272\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/nyc2123.com\/\">NYC2123<\/a> is a graphic novel conceived for the 480 by 272-pixel screen of the Play Station Portable video game device. It&#8217;s a post-apocalyptic tale set in a future, tsunami-ravaged New York in which the city&#8217;s wealthy have walled off the island of Manhattan against a violent river society of junkies, thieves and outlaw barges.<br \/>\nThere are several sequences that read like a flip book, taking advantage of the single-frame interface and the fact that the reader has literally got his finger on the button. Quickly flipping through the panels creates a filmic effect, as here:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dayender52.jpg\" img border=\"1;\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/dayender52.jpg\" width=\"175\" height=\"309\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/spacer.gif\" border=\"0\" width=\"10\" height=\"309\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dayender53.jpg\" img border=\"1;\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/dayender53.jpg\" width=\"175\" height=\"309\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/spacer.gif\" border=\"0\" width=\"10\" height=\"309\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dayender54.jpg\" img border=\"1;\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/dayender54.jpg\" width=\"175\" height=\"309\" \/><br \/>\n(Once again via <a href=\"http:\/\/infocult.typepad.com\/infocult\/2005\/09\/microcontent_co.html\">Infocult<\/a> &#8211; thanks Bryan)<br \/>\n<b>Update:<\/b> Someone has just developed a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.makezine.com\/blog\/archive\/2005\/09\/homebrew_pdf_reader_for_sony_p.html\">.pdf reader for the PSP<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYC2123 is a graphic novel conceived for the 480 by 272-pixel screen of the Play Station Portable video game device. It&#8217;s a post-apocalyptic tale set in a future, tsunami-ravaged New York in which the city&#8217;s wealthy have walled off the island of Manhattan against a violent river society of junkies, thieves and outlaw barges. There [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338,339,493,548,725,727,776,1121,1186,1187,1295,1330,1536,1576],"tags":[2816],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comic","category-comics","category-digital_literature","category-ebook","category-games","category-gaming","category-graphicnovel","category-manhattan","category-microcontent","category-microlit","category-newyork","category-nyc2123","category-psp","category-reading","tag-psp-graphicnovel-comic-comics-ebook-manhattan-newyork-nyc2123-games-gaming-microcontent-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}