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Mark of the Ninja
's five stealth design rules
December 3, 2012 | By Mathew Kumar
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For Klei Entertainment's Nels Anderson, making a great stealth action video game meant throwing out a lot of a lot of the genre's existing tropes.
Anderson was lead designer on
Mark of the Ninja
, a stealth game that brought an unconventional twist to the genre through its 2D side-scrolling vantage point.
While the game casts aside certain stealth elements laid out by games such as
Splinter Cell
, it does still rely heavily on cornerstones of stealth game design.
Mark of the Ninja
," Anderson explained, "we wanted to make sure that that the fundamental experience of being a ninja was brought across and everything else supported that."
After breaking the genre down into its fundamentals, Anderson established
Mark of the Ninja
's five stealth guidelines he called the "Heresies of the ninja." These "heresies" broke the rules laid out by stealth design's predecessors.
Heresy One: Transparent Stealth System
"In contrast to most stealth games where you have a visibility meter or something like that, in
Mark of the Ninja
light and darkness are totally binary," Anderson said. "The way your character looks immediately reveals if you are visible or not - if you are concealed you are in black with red highlights, and in light you are fully colored."
This on/off approach had one caveat, however.
"If you are at the absolute edge of a guard's field of vision, they will catch a glimpse of you. They will start to move towards you quickly but not on full alert."
The binary light system - and the fact that all other information is available on screen, such as the limits of the guard's field of vision, or the "ring" of how far a sound such as a smashing light will travel before you destroy it, are intended to "make the systems all very, very understandable."
This intention to visualize exactly what will happen before an action is intended to allow the player to know "full out what will happen before they commit."
"It allows the player to factor this into their intentional play."
Heresy Two: Transparent AI
Also in aid of intentional play, the guards have three clear levels of awareness, with cues to how they are set into those modes and what they are doing during them (such as racing to the spot the player was last seen, represented by a ghost, or moving towards and then looking at an area where a sound was heard.)
"The point is to ensure that if a guard's behavior ever changes, the player will immediately understand what set it off."
Heresy Three: Narrow gulf of execution
Mark of the Ninja
team felt the game's design shouldn't fight against players' intentions.
Anderson used an example from the
series. "The primary was you affect the world in
is through magic arrows. You have a limited supply of them and you can't pick them up again if you waste them. The thing is that the only way you have to aim those arrows is a little tiny reticule, and they're modelled with physics. So actually becoming skilled to affect the world becomes very satisfying, and was very appropriate to what they were trying to provide in that game, but was absolutely not what we were trying to achieve."
Placing aiming skill over stealth tactics wasn't the direction Klei wanted to adopt. One problem was the fact that "2D aiming is actually really god damn hard," said Anderson.
"In most 2D shooters your previous bullets act as tracer bullets, but in
Mark of the Ninja
you only want to fire once... the player is a ninja, and if you are constantly bumbling through it kind of undermines the thing we're going for," he said.
As a result, the game's solution was "focus aiming," which stops time completely and is not limited by the player's resources.
Focus aiming wasn't always an unlimited-use design feature. "[Previously], we added a meter [to the focus aiming] and it was just horrible," Anderson said. "It just completely undercut that whole design decision; sometimes you have to double check your assumptions. Power-balancing is not really objective ... you must let players do what they want to do."
Heresy Four: Limited Consequences for Failure
Anderson said he was wary of using widely-spaced checkpoints "as a means of providing challenge."
"This kind of difficulty is very, very dangerous," he said. "In a stealth game people come in with a very patient style of play. There's a lot of waiting. If something goes wrong and they have to do all that waiting again, it quickly descends into tedium," he said. If people get through a section of a challenge before failing, they will generally do that section again exactly the same until they reach the point they failed at.
, it basically had a checkpoint between every meaningful encounter," he said. "This allowed us and the player more experimentation in the game. You've all heard of degenerative strategies, where people have worked out one thing that works and it's boring as hell, but they keep doing it because they don't want to lose work. They don't want to lose the last six, seven minutes of play so they just keep doing that boring thing."
That's not to say failure states were completely unacceptable -- within reason. Although he agreed that it would have a "significant impact on your engineering," Anderson argued that there is no single feature in a game that features death or failure states that will gain "more positive feeling" than instant load times. He was in fact prepared to argue that "neither
Super Meat Boy
would be as successful as they were if you had to look at a loading screen each time you died."
Heresy Five: Less-Open World Design
"We made [open world] levels," Anderson said, "and they were just god damn terrible."
"Mentally mapping 2D space is really not something our brains are meant to do," he said, while admitting he had "done no hard science" on this theory.
"In 2D you are simulating a space that's not the way it would be in reality, so your brain has to perform a translation. There's a difficulty there so you can't build a contiguous space nearly as large as you can in 3D."
Anderson claimed the sweet spot for a 2D encounter space was the game screen size plus "0.5 to 0.75 of a screen in any direction. ... Any more than that people start to feel lost or not really competent in that space. A little more if it's just horizontal or vertical. If you look at a
that's roughly how all of their encounter spaces work. I think that's because they stumbled upon a weird cognitive way the brain works."
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Maria Jayne
3 Dec 2012 at 2:57 am PST
I really want to try this game, I'm just slightly put off by the potential control issues on the pc version. It's from the makers of shank, which had a truly awful keyboard and mouse setup I hated when I tried the demo.
As for the stealth rules, they all seem pretty good ideas. I especially like developers who don't obsess over if they give the player too many cool toys. It's really unsatisfying to be given powerful toys with lots of limitations because the developers were afraid you might actually use them. Don't be afraid of letting players have fun.
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Jonathan Escobedo
3 Dec 2012 at 12:42 pm PST
The PC port supports controllers, so if you have one, use it. If not, a wired Xbox 360 controller costs twenty six dollars on Amazon, which seems like a lot, but it's worth it. As for Mark of the Ninja, it's a really good game and a contender for my personal GOTY.
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Joe McGinn
3 Dec 2012 at 7:54 pm PST
Great article, wonderful design guide. Most bad stealth experiences break one of more of these rules. A recent stealth game that follows them all, and succeeds briliantly, is Doshonored. (With a big FAIL going out to Hitman for an obtuse and long-winded save system. which just as Anderson says discourages and punishes the exploration and creativity that the game is supposed to be about.)
Think I'll go grab this game now... FYI re Jonathan's comments, it's on sale right now as having full controller support, part of the Steam Big Picture sale: http://store.steampowered.com/app/214560/
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Josh Riley
4 Dec 2012 at 2:01 pm PST
I picked it up in one of the last steam sales and the controls were never a concern. I have a 360 controller, but never switched to it because I never felt the pc controls were off.
Also, I own both shanks, and never finished the first level of either, and I've put substantial time into this one. Give it a shot!
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Jack Nilssen
3 Dec 2012 at 5:49 am PST
If you're serious about playing videogames on a PC, you should have a gamepad.
I bought this game on both X360 & PC, and it was the same (totally amazeballs) experience on both but that's because I was using the same controller.
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Maria Jayne
3 Dec 2012 at 6:05 am PST
"If you're serious about playing videogames on a PC, you should have a gamepad."
I must not be serious then. Whatever the hell that means.
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E Zachary Knight
3 Dec 2012 at 7:11 am PST
If you are serious about playing PC games, you play PC games that are designed to use the PC's input mechanisms to their fullest.
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Nick McKergow
3 Dec 2012 at 7:16 am PST
It mean's you should try the game with a gamepad so that control won't be an issue. Then there'll be nothing stopping you from playing this game you really want to try.
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Adam Bishop
3 Dec 2012 at 7:53 am PST
If you're serious about playing PC games, you play them with whatever input you have the most fun using.
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Ramon Carroll
3 Dec 2012 at 11:53 am PST
"If you're serious about playing PC games, you play them with whatever input you have the most fun using."
We have a winner.
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Ron Dippold
3 Dec 2012 at 1:27 pm PST
@Maria: Some games are obviously designed for a specific type of control, even though it will let you play them with alternative methods.
You can play Batman: AC with keyboard, or this game with keyboard, but I think it will be much more satisfying with gamepad (I tried both!). Shank is much better with gamepad, though nowhere near as good as Mark of the Ninja. Any twinstick type game is of course going to be much better with twin sticks.
Alternatively the XCOM gamepad controls are actually pretty good, but it's still much better with mouse/kb. Ditto for Dishonored.
So it may have sounded a bit insulting, but investing in a gamepad for your PC really improves quite a few games and your enjoyment of them. Or you could just play those games on console.
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evan c
3 Dec 2012 at 6:01 am PST
"It just completely undercut that whole design decision; sometimes you have to double check your assumptions. Power-balancing is not really objective ... you must let players do what they want to do."
I love this part. Most games out there suffers because of some asshat decision to add challenge to the most mundane task.
I just wish every game designer would "double check their assumptions" and ask if their idea is actually fun or are they just being an asshole.
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Luis Guimaraes
3 Dec 2012 at 6:07 am PST
Yep, seems I'm breaking all the Five Rules.
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Michael Rooney
3 Dec 2012 at 7:17 am PST
I don't like how a lot of these "heresies" are pretty much exactly the way Splinter Cell has been moving for quite some time. The first 3 have all been focuses in Splinter Cell to varying degrees since double agent.
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Michael Rooney
3 Dec 2012 at 7:19 am PST
Not to undercut how good the game is, I'm just not a fan of labeling things as, "[breaking] the rules laid out by stealth design's predecessors," when one of stealth's largest franchises has been focussing on half of them for 2 iterations.
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Adam Bishop
3 Dec 2012 at 7:19 am PST
Bought this game during the last Steam sale and just started playing it last night. I agree really strongly with this bit:
"In a stealth game people come in with a very patient style of play. There's a lot of waiting. If something goes wrong and they have to do all that waiting again, it quickly descends into tedium."
I think a longer wait between checkpoints can be OK in an action game because properly carrying out those actions, getting the timing down, etc. is a big part of what makes the game fun. But in a stealth game, a major part of the fun is in observing and planning. The "waiting" portion of play is actually a kind of mental challenge to figure out how to tackle the scenario. But if you've successfully played a section of a stealth game before, you've already figured out the mental challenge, so all that's left is just sitting around not playing the game, and that's not very enjoyable.
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Luis Guimaraes
3 Dec 2012 at 8:10 am PST
Stealth games have a love-hate relationship with quick-saving, specially because "progress" can be a very subjective for the player, so it should be up to the player's judgement when to checkpoint their progress.
The problem with quick-saving is that it's always followed by quick-loading, which shouldn't be abused by players at risk of being detrimental to their own gaming experience. In that case the game should protect the player from doing so while providing her with a better gaming experience.
The solution possibilities are many, from limiting number of saves between checkpoints, to making quick-saves consumable, to putting cool-downs for saving, to limiting number of save slots, to limiting the amount of times the same save-slot can be reloaded, to limiting the amount of time it must pass until a save can be reloaded, to having more than one of these rules at once, to have paralel rules at once on different levels (golden/silver/bronze save slots with different cool-downs/consumable-uses and different reloading rules), so on and so forth...
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Michael Rooney
3 Dec 2012 at 12:21 pm PST
@Luis: You can also make the UI not friendly for quick saving. Make it friendly enough that the use cost of doing it once every 5 minutes isn't terrible, but using it every 10 seconds becomes tedious.
Maybe only make loading more tedius but not saving?
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Luis Guimaraes
3 Dec 2012 at 12:26 pm PST
Yes, you're right.
Increasing attrition is a good way of discouraging the use of a feature outside of when it's actually needed. The "Save and Quit" system is the most common way of applying that solution.
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Bart Stewart
3 Dec 2012 at 10:53 am PST
Luis, I hesitate to agree that quickloading in stealth games is an abuse from which players must be protected despite themselves.
Restrictions on reloading make sense in an action game where the core play experience is about excitement. Quickloading interferes with the roller-coaster ride of a Call of Duty-type game, for example.
But I'd argue that the opposite is true for a game whose design emphasizes an exploration play experience. Even if there's also action, exploration is about perception, about recognizing static and dynamic patterns in environments. Quickloading is a very useful tool in these games; it supports the exploratory play experience by letting the player try out different ideas for testing updated perceptions.
The question of quickloading is trickier for stealth games because they have both action and perception. You need to see the patterns and states of guards, cameras, etc., but then you have to act quickly and competently on that knowledge.
So I would suggest that save/load controls in a stealth game should depend on what kind of stealth game it is.
If it's really an action game, with fighting game-style moves and a bit of perception being helpful, then allowing limited quickloading (or at-will quickloading with rewards for choosing to reload less often) probably makes sense.
For a stealth game that's mostly about being good at perceiving patterns and generating solutions, where the actual implementation of those plans is the simpler part, unlimited quickloading might be better for that kind of play experience.
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Luis Guimaraes
3 Dec 2012 at 11:14 am PST
Whatever you said I like first, read last, Bart! :D
When I say the player must be protected it's not every player, but some players do and are very good at destroying the experience for themselves and spreading bad word about the game (specially true for game reviewers). And that's pretty much the player I'm talking about.
The problem is when the players gets to the point of saving, taking a shot, saving if it hits, reloading if it fails and hard-trying again until it hits. And people does that. And then tell everybody how easy and boring the game is. Sadly it's something we have to account for when designing a game.
Apart from that I choose quick-saving loading anytime. So making limitations to quick-loading is more about making adjustments to put quick-loading in the game instead of simply using checkpoints.
And you better have time to play games because you're listed in my focus group for an upcoming thing ;)
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Bart Stewart
3 Dec 2012 at 1:07 pm PST
Thanks, Luis! We seem to share a lot of design ideas, with some different perspectives.
If you think there's something I can do that would be helpful, I'll make some time. :)
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Luis Guimaraes
3 Dec 2012 at 3:22 pm PST
Hell yea o/
Just getting to play a spoiler-free alpha/beta version and giving opinion is enough. It's no System Shock 3 but we're try to make some nice stuff. :)
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Ozzie Smith
3 Dec 2012 at 1:29 pm PST
I love Mark of the Ninja. I think it's the best stealth game I've played in years. So few stealth games make it feel like actually taking a stealth approach is the best way to play (so many stealth games have such a low consequence for getting caught and make the player so overpowered that players need to self-impose handicaps to make the game fun).
The only thing I would change is that I would have made it so that players lose points for dying. About half-way through the game I realized that it helped my score out if I just got myself killed and restarted from the last checkpoint if I got spotted instead of waiting out the alert (becuase getting spotted loses you points, but dying just resets everything). I hated that I knew how to game the system a little bit lol.
Again I really loved this game and I hope that all future stealth games learn lessons from it.
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Ron Dippold
3 Dec 2012 at 1:46 pm PST
What I found interesting is that I played Mark of the Ninja shortly after Dishonored and a lot of the same design decisions and even specific powers and play strategies popped up. I'm sure this was not direct copying, just convergent evolution. Where they diverge is that Dishonored is less completely transparent about AI and detection zones, but allows the gigantic open areas that Anderson says didn't work well in 2D. Corvo can also take a lot more damage than the Ninja can.
I'm waffly on everything being indicated visually - to be clear, it worked great in Mark, but I'm not sure all the visual clutter would have worked well in Dishonored's less cartoony 3D world (come to think of it, Batman: AC did a bit of this, but only in detective vision mode). Also, it did take me a while to get used to Dishonored's stealth model (especially after Thief - Dishonored is not as lenient), but I did eventually get quite good at it. Also, since Corvo can survive being discovered much better, the instances where you mess something up and then have to recover can be some of the most interesting in the game. But of course it's a bit more satisfying when you get the Ninja through a nasty situation.
So I'm going to throw my hands up and say they were both fun and it was interesting to see where they made the same choices or different choices.
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3 Dec 2012 at 4:22 pm PST
Everything I hear about this game reminds me of Commandos, pretty much the only stealth game I've really enjoyed. It's nice to see another stealth game come around with a very clear ruleset and good feedback.
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Luis Guimaraes
3 Dec 2012 at 6:21 pm PST
Have you player the first "Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive"? I think it's even better than Commandos in the genre, Robin Hood not as good. It's one of my favorite stealth games.
My #1 is still probably Ultimate Assassin 2 thou: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/498521
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ex. Bruce Oreck
This specimen was pictured on the cover of the Nov-Dec 2009 Mineralogical Record issue containing a long article on this famous gem crystal mine. It is also pictured inside the article, shown after being mined. The piece is gemmier than most, sharper than most in form and termination, and retains a hexagonal shape unmarred by too much etching; and yet enough etching to give it the fantastically complex surface structure we love to see in these beryl crystals. It is absolutely pristine, and is doubly-terminated. Here is a stunning, large specimen of heliodor that is not just gemmy, but is TOTALLY 100% clean and of gem quality - two entirely different uses of the base word "gem" ! 532 grams mass - which is a LOT of treated, cutting-quality aquamarine rough in the gem trade (although one should never cut such a perfect crystal!) . Formerly in the collection of Daniel Trinchillo (known to keep great Russian pieces); and of collector Bruce Oreck. Joe Budd photos.
A gemmy, sparkling, bubbly blue willemite of a quality that I simply never thought to exist, from the remarkable small find of the late 1970s that is regarded by most Tsumeb afficionados as having produced the finest willemite in the world. This piece is 3-dimensional, has great horizons, and is complete all around! It is blue on the front, and red (also willemite) on the backside. Most people whom i showed this to, thought it was a translucent smithsonite. Joe Budd photos.
ex. Dr. Edward David
This important large specimen features a 12-cm-long doubly-terminated, gem crystal on top! That crystal is RAZOR sharp, literally. It is extremely translucent and has the best lively brown color when backlit, not too dark as many are. The piece is nearly pristine all around, with just a small bit of contact or damage in back (and not on the main crystal). The way the matrix balances and contrasts, is also unusual as most large axinites are simply masses of axinite with little matrix to offset the crystals. This is a rarified, large piece from the mining in the 1980s heyday here. It was in the Ed David collection in the 1990s, and then the Marc Weill collection in the early 2000's. I think such a piece is simply not out there on the modern market. Joe Budd photos
Perfection. Complete all around, this specimen simply dominates with its aesthetics and sparkle. Even the matrix is crystallized and sparkly. Quite simply, this piece is considered by many to be if not the finest, than among the top few examples known of the species from the modern finds of this style (which are quite different than the old style from the 1940s, from another locale). It sold for a record price back in 2001, and then sold again in the sale of the Fuss collection (in 2003). It then disappeared for a number of years until it came across my desk recently, right as the painting of the piece came out as the frontispiece in the Brazil book published by ExtraLapis in Germany. ex Sandor Fuss collection. Joe Budd photos
The photos say it all, here. This is a spectacular specimen of upright, pristine and mirror-bright hematite perched on stunningly gem clear, bright, perfect quartz crystals, all on a granite matrix. The hematites are 3-dimensional and fat, not slender and brittle as so many can be. They show complex surface patterning, only marred by a few small specks of deep red rutile perched atop. Such specimens are quite nearly impossible to collect and find in the high Alpine clefts where strahlers literally risk their lives going after them. Many matrix pieces are repaired - this is not. Many matrix pieces are big and clunky - this has perfect aesthetics and is complete all around. The accenting cascade of small, mirror-bright hematites like a waterfall down the front-right adds to the eye appeal and sparkle in a case. Quite simply, for "American tastes" of perfection and display quality, this is one of my absolute favorite Cavradi pieces I have seen over the years. From a well-known collection in the US. Joe Budd photos
An incredible, significant, CABINET sized specimen that speaks to both the history and the beauty of golds from this district. For those who know what they are looking at, enough said! A nice provenance accompanies this piece. Joe Budd photos
This piece was mined in approximately 2004 and was from a small locality in Shigar, from which I have not seen other pieces attributed since. It has the size and robust textbook-hexagonal form with basal termination of a Nagar-style (Hunza Valley) aquamarine, but yet with a deeper color saturation and gemminess characteristic of Shigar Valley pieces. Lustre is glassy, and fine. Overall, for the size and price it is very imposing and dramatic. The large central crystal is accented by sidecar crystals of aquamarine on one side and by mica crystals on the rear-left , which add both sparkle and dimensionality to make the piece more than "just a single" as so many big aquamarines are. It is complete all around, and as near to pristine as you can wish. I had exhibited this for a number of years as part of the natural history minerals exhibit at the Heard Museum in the north Dallas area. Large and hefty, at nearly a kilo in mass (over 2 pounds weight!). Joe Budd photos
There was a now-famous pocket of what most people I know who saw them consider the best hematites found to date, hit sometime in 2006-2007 and "buried" until 2009 when they came to market. The hematite is razor sharp and has a finish like a jet-black mirror, if you can imagine that effect. It is so reflective, you can use it as a mirror in a literal sense; and it is admittedly "black" in color but yet not black in a way that eats up the light going into it. They just, crystal for crystal, outshine other hematites with but a few exceptions. So far as I knew, they had all been dispersed at and after Tucson of 2009. I believe I have seen most of the lot, and it contained pieces that reached larger size but not with such aesthetics. This particular piece was a hold-back, kept in a private collection by one of the sources. It is one of only a handful of specimens we know of which combined the lustrous, mirror-finish hematite with yellow ettringite association. A coating of small jet-black crystals of hausmannite adds contrast, and texture, to the piece overall. The central hematite crystal measures nearly 2 inches across and sits accented by a bowtie of chalk-yellow ettringites. I think over the long run, given how much hematite is out there on the market from other locales and how stunning these few pieces are, they will command a lot more respect in the fullness of time. So far as I know, all the previous major pieces are now sold and dispersed too.Joe Budd photos
The photos speak for themselves here. This is a WORLD CLASS level aquamarine of the most intense color seen from this part of the world. It is more blue than 99.99 % of all other aquas and has to rank among the top examples of the species from these modern finds, in my opinion. It practically radiates color, and has a sharp and robust hexagonal form. And as good as the photos are, in person it has an even higher lustre and a more intense and bright gemminess to the eye than the camera sees. It is visible from across a room. Contact us for more information on this important specimen. Joe Budd photos.
Quite simply a MAJOR specimen of historic size and importance. This piece would have been mined in the mid to late 1800s, when specimens like this were highly prized and made their way into only the most prominent collections. It came to me as part of such a modern collection that was quietly dispersed, and has never been offered for public sale before. The piece recently toured the world as part of the GOLD! EXHIBITION organized by the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The exhibit was in Tokyo, Chicago, Denver, Atlanta, and Houston Museums among others, from 2006-2011. Joe Budd photos
ex. Dr. Steve Smale
An outstanding hematite of huge proportions, from this very old find. The piece measures 16 cm across tip to tip, and 14 cm across in orientation as shown on its base. It is heavy, and visually impressive as well. The piece is 3-dimensional and looks good from all sides. This crystal is complete except for a few inconsequential small dings or damage at the base, and was long considered to be one of the finest large hematites in existence (perhaps, the finest, according to Gene Meieran's comments to me about his views on it at the time). It appeared to a stir on the market with elite dealer Bob Sullivan at the San Francisco show in approximately 1975. Gene Meieran told me that he remembers agonizing about buying it (it was expensive even then) and was beaten to the punch by Steve Smale while thinking on it overnight. Steve owned it until only recently, for over 30 years, in his important collection. It is still the finest known Brazilian hematite, most people who see it agree. The only close comparables are those few from the Kalahari fields which reach this size, though they have entirely different crystal form and habit. This specimen was featured in the exhibition "MINERAL DREAMS: Brazilian Gem treasures" at the Munich show of 2010. (video now available from BlueCap Productions). It remains an imposing, important hematite. Joe Budd photos. NOTE - THIS SPECIMEN IS ILLUSTRATED IN THE MINERALOGICAL RECORD, SEPT-OCT 1992, IN THE ARTICLE ON THE SMALE COLLECTION. THE PIECE ALSO COMES WITH A HAND-MADE 19 X 15 INCH CIBACHROME PRINT THAT STEVE MADE FROM HIS OWN PHOTO, IN HIS DARKROOM BASEMENT, BACK IN 1991. Cibachrome is now a dead photo technology, as the chemicals used have proven to be rather hazardous to health. The plus side is, though, that this print will last for a thousand years due to those same chemicals.
Rhodochrosite from the old finds is one of the Holy Grails of every new major collector. This piece is a stunning exemplar of WHY we all want one. And it is big, flashy, and sparkles with color. The color is a bright cherry red, not the darker wine-red of the scalenohedral style most folks have already. This style is much rarer - and was much rarer back in the day, as well. Very few like this came out, and particularly few in this SIZE range. This would have been 1978-1980 range. This is the same pocket as the famous "Snail" rhodo of Bill Larson's collection. This specimen glows when backlit, because light comes through the entire radial wheatsheave cluster atop. It has a nice horizon, whereas most have a contacted or bare edge. A great N'chwaning rhodo of the scalenohedral style will be more expensive than this one, and yet here w get a better degree of rarity and uniqueness in display. This piece came to me as a larger specimen from an old collection purchased in entirety to get, largely, this one piece. It had remained in South Africa for 30 years, only comin gto me in fall of 2010.Joe Budd Photos
This specimen is the back cover of the MINERAL-UP calendar, published in Spain by Joaquim Callen. I LOVE the piece, and have always loved it since I bought it and put it away 4 years or so ago, waiting to see what else came out of the mine. It turns out that the brief rain of fine golds was both spotty and short, with many of different styles but few so brassy and bright like this. It looks, in person, like robust aluminum foil, that has been gold plated and then airbrushed to make it more modernist. This is a phenomenal piece with INSANE lustre and form so sharp it LOOKS like it was cut with a cookie cutter, not grown. I am trying to find words to express why this little thing looks so damned overpriced , at first glance. And all I can end with is,IT IS THAT SHARP. To me, most Round Mountain golds are second-rans in a general sense, after California crystallized golds, for lustre and brightness. Look in the publications and you will see very fine golds with fine crystals, many more robust and larger than this, but you will see nothing quite like this for sheer "flash". Size is just a bit under 2 inches and so this is a full-on miniature, not a toenail. It is equally good on both sides and picking a front face is entirely arbitrary. It is a floater with no attachment point or damage. And, it is one of those favored Round Mountain golds that stands as a great piece on its own merits, rather than being just a neat crystal from a rare locale. I really feel this is a competition-level gold miniature, about as choice as you can get for anything in a remotely reasonable price range, and that it leaves money on the table. The reason I say this is because you can spend far more on a California gold and yet, in the end, not have one so impactful as this. That being said, I will put in writing that i will buy this back for a check, anytime - I love it that much.Joe Budd Photos
ex. Roland and Kathy Sherman
This very rare copper, zinc, phosphate, reaches its worldwide zenith in Montana. Or it did, anyhow, over 30 years ago! Such specimen are extremely rare and this is a HUGE crystal for the species, at the top of its size range except for a few outlying specimens. This cluster of extremely lustrous, rich and deep blue-green veszelyite crystals , is quite simply phenomenal and the best such I have had for sale. This was the major specimen in the Roland and Kathy Sherman thumbnail collection, the non-Southwest-USA portion of which I recently purchased. It is INCREDIBLE in person with a presence hard to convey in photos...very impactful, despite that it is a small miniature/large thumbnail. The story is something like this, to set it all out: It was mined in the late 1960s (1969, i think?) in the major pocket of this material found at Phillipsburg. It was sold in a fishy deal in 1981 by a colorful miner nicknamed "Oreo", at the Tucson show, to the dealership Van Scriver. Brad van Scriver then sold it to well known San Diego thumbnail collector (who also happenned to be his mother!) , Beth Gordon, within a day. It was in her collection for decades and she had one of the finest collections of thumbnails for the era. The previous owners, Roland and Kathy Sherman, traded it out of her before the collection was broken up. This then was the best piece in their own thumbnail collection. It was not on the open market, then, since 1981. The blue is dark, true, but it IS a vivid blue color and not as dark as it looks in the photo. This is a very rare specimen of highest quality that ALSO happens to be a superbly balanced thumbnail specimen for the collector. Joe Budd Photos . NOTE ADDED courtesy of collector Russ Hage: Oreo Winginghoff was somehow involved in ownership of BP during the time this specimen was mined. He sold the Vesy xtal to Duane Johnson who sold it on to the Smithsonian (perhaps the only finer example, or one of the very few). Oreo was killed when a loader drove over him will working at Stillwater PMG mine about 5 years ago (2007?).
ex. University of Arizona
At 900 grams, this is an astonishing, dense, solid gold specimen in the shape of a ring, or halo. The entire thing is composed of minutely crystallized gold, with sparkly faces and points all over it when seen with a loupe. It is not "just" a nugget. It has long been known, among the relatively few dealers who knew the reclusive previous owner, as one of the best pieces in a collection built between the 1950s and around 2000. It belonged to Hubert De Monmonier (1919-2007), and was donated by bequest to the University of Arizona Museum to add to their displays and to provide specimens for sale to establish an endowment fund for museum operations, in perpetuity. This was, to my mind, one of the top two or three specimens they let go in the recent deacquisition sale. It is rumoured to be the largest crystallized gold from South America and, to my admittedly limited knowledge, this is indeed the case.Joe Budd Photos
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Tweaking Tux, Part 5
Last time around, I thought I might wrap this series up, move on to something new. But then, out of nowhere, a reader sent me a seemingly harmless little e-mail. "Pssst. Hey, wanna see a really cool system monitor program? Free. GPL stuff even. Looks great. Waddayasay?" I thought, sure, couldn't hurt to have a look. Right?
You might remember that last time I told you about all those neat dockable apps I have scattered over my desktop--performance monitors, clock calendars, CD players and weather apps. It's one of things I think is really great about WindowMaker stuff. What I discovered at the end of that harmless e-mail was something like my favorite WindowMaker applet on steroids. Enough teasing. Do what I did. Surf on over to http://web.wt.net/~billw/gkrellm/gkrellm.html and get yourself a copy of GKrellM.
GKrellM is more than just a system performance monitor. Looking at it, I imagine a stack of stereo equipment components, separate tuner, amplifier, DVD, tape deck, etc. In this case, it displays time and date, CPU, processes in the run queue, disk activity, network interface stats, memory, swap, e-mail notification (complete with animated mail icon and Tux himself bouncing back and forth), and the list goes on. It's customizable and it's fun. There's more but, first, let's get this thing running.
Building GKrellM is easy. I downloaded the latest source (version 1.01) and built it like this.
tar -xzvf gkrellm-1.0.1.tar.gz cd gkrellm-1.0.1 make make install
If you feel like saving yourself the trouble of a compile, there are Debian and RPM packages available as well. Once you have the program installed (in whatever way you chose), simply type gkrellm & and you are off. Notice the image off to the right. This is not GKrellM's default look, but one of many skins that can be downloaded to change the look of the package. The one you see in my example is called "Sunset".
The official theme site for GKrellM is Muhri's web site at http://www.muhri.net, where you'll find enough GKrellM skins to keep you going for quite some time. There are over one hundred GKrellM skins on the site.
To install a theme, download the one you like, change directory to $HOME/.gkrellm/themes and extract the tarred and gzipped file like this:
cd $HOME/.gkrellm/themes tar -xzvf /path_to/theme_name.tar.gz
To change the look of the monitor (and do any other customization), right-click on the menu bar. In my sunset image, the title bar says "scigate", the name of one of my servers. The menu pops up with "Configuration F1" or "Theme". I don't use the theme switcher here, but rather change things through the configuration menu. What the "Theme" menu does at this level is allow you to switch sequentially from one theme to another, either up or down. The configuration menu, on the other hand, displays them in a nice menu and allows you to choose any one and apply the changes until you are satisfied. You should also familiarize yourself with the built-in functions and change them to suit your own tastes and requirements.
I've told you about configuring themes, but you can do quite a bit more than that. A lot is packed into the display and some of that information is sitting just below the surface (whatever surface you happen to have selected). Clicking on the various "components" on the stack turns options on or off. For instance, if I click on the "Proc" display, it turns on and off a text display of the number of active processes and users. Similarly, if I click on the "eth0" network display, it shows the average transfer rate. Right-clicking yields different results than left-clicking, so explore.
Here's another great thing about GKrellM. There are plugins available that let you add functioanlity to the basic product. For instance, on my system, I have a plugin called GKrellWeather from Franky Lam. This little plugin adds another component to the GKrellM stack, a nice thin one that alternates between atmospheric conditions, temperature, dewpoint, wind speed, etc. All this information is gathered from my local airport weather station (code CYYZ).
Installing plugins is a little different. In the case of GKrellWeather, I downloaded the source, extracted it and ran make. The make install did all the work of installing the plugin. There are a number of plugins available with links from the GKrellM web site.
Now, I can't say that GKrellM has permanently cast out my other dockable apps. I still start WMmon, wmCalClock and wmWeather when the mood takes me. Their displays tend to be larger and, sometimes, easier to read. Still, this is one beautiful app, one I'll no doubt run in conjunction with other programs--such is my mania for dynamic system feedback. Scotty, I must have more stats!
Before we wrap this up, I want to throw one other command line monitor your way. ( I'll never give up the command line. Never!) From a shell prompt, type the command pstree. You should get something that looks like this.
init-+-apmd |-artsd |-atd |-crond |-fontfs |-gpm |-httpd---9*[httpd] |-identd---identd---3*[identd] |-inetd |-11*[kdeinit] |-kdeinit-+-kdeinit | |-kdeinit-+-2*[bash---telnet] | | |-bash---su---bash---gkrellm | | |-bash---bluefish | | `-bash | |-kdeinit---bash---su---bash---pstree | `-kteatime |-kdeinit---cat |-kdesud |-kflushd
What's neat about this command is that you get a graphical view of what processes are running on your system and what process started those processes. For instance, you can see that kdeinit is responsible for a fair number of processes. From my KDE desktop, I started a bash shell and from that shell, I started GKrellM and bluefish, an HTML editor I'm pretty fond of. The display is somewhat longer than what you see here, but I've trimmed it down a bit. You can also see from here that all processes start with "init", which is process ID 1.
You can modify the display with switches. For instance, a "-G" will show you the same display but with nice graphical lines instead of the dashed ones you see above. An "-a" flag will display all command line arguments. By default, pstree only displays the command name. Here's a small sample with no flags set.
|-sendmail |-smbd---3*[smbd] |-syslogd `-xfs
Here is the same display with the "-a" option set.
|-sendmail |-(smbd) | |-smbd -D | |-smbd -D | `-smbd -D |-syslogd -m 0 `-xfs -droppriv -daemon -port -1
The smbd process now shows the parent process in parentheses, which indicates that the process is swapped out. Notice also that all three of its children are visible while they were only flagged as "3*" before. Similarly, have a look at the xfs command that now displays all the flags with which it was called. The ps command is great for telling you every little thing that is going on, but pstree provides you with a graphical, hierarchical means of finding that information.
I started out this column with the hint that next time we are going to do something different and, this time, I mean it. So, be sure to tune in for something completely, er, um, different. Until then, remember to give Tux a tweak. You both might enjoy it.
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Opened in 2005, the 884-room northern Ohio resort is the second in the Kalahari family -- succeeding Kalahari Wisconsin Dells -- and includes a 173,000-square-foot indoor water park, a 77,000-square-foot outdoor water park and a new Safari Adventure Park, featuring an African-themed animal park complete with camels, giraffes and zebras.
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♦ Alfred and Lorraine Van Horne sold property at 31 Skaarland Drive to Pauline Mason for $228,500.
♦ Michele Sestito sold property at 7 Lakehill Road to David and Danielle Connors for $160,000.
♦ Wells Fargo Bank and Homeward Residential Inc. sold property at 598 Randall Road to Christopher Halladay for $47,500.
♦ Stephen and Elizabeth Brumagin sold property at 10 Currie Court to Anthony Gaggi for $194,900.
♦ Isabelle Deselve Desarran sold property at 82 Pepperbush Place to Norman Chen and Yee Lee King for $152,000.
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♦ Mikhail Myshchuk and Hasha Wansovich sold property at 77 Blue Spruce Lane to Daniel and Kahli Patell for $214,000.
♦ TRA Tom Development Inc. sold property at 669 Acland Blvd. to Blain and Jaime Smith for $348,538.
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It was son against father at the Uganda Olympic Committee (UOC) Extra Ordinary General Assembly on Saturday as President Roger Hans Ddungu was banned while his Vice, Nicholas P'Minga, was suspended.
P'Minga was suspended for siding with his President and continuing to issue letters to sporting bodies without authority of the executive committee.
Interestingly, P'Minga's son, Linos Ngompek, a member of the Canoe/Kayaking Federation, supported the suspension of his father. Ngompek said afterwards that it would have been disgraceful if his father was banned, noting that the suspension gives him room to argue out his case and defend himself.
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The Assembly that includes all sporting Associations voted for the motion to ban Ddungu on grounds that he had contravened the UOC constitution and International Olympic Committee (IOC) Charter by taking his executive to court.
Article 23.01 of the UOC constitution states that any member Federation or official or Executive committee member who contravenes any part of the constitution, rules and regulations may be cautioned, fined, suspended or banned by the General Assembly. But the Assembly choose to ban Ddungu because besides taking matters to court he had also allegedly mismanaged the national olympic body and failed to appear to explain himself on three occasions when given chance.
The ban means Ddungu cannot stand for any UOC post again or even represent Uganda Taekwondo Association where he was the Chairman.
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Cherry Crop Update. I'm Greg Martin with today's Fruit Grower Report.
Rain in eastern Washington has sure kept cherry producers on their toes as the 2012 cherry harvest moves into full swing. BJ Thurlby, President of the Washington State Fruit Commission and NW Cherries.
THURLBY: Certainly the last 5 days or so here in the northwest haven't been perfect cherry growing weather and for the most part we've had scattered showers. Yesterdays (Tuesdays) rain lasted a little bit longer than we would have liked but I spent some time talking to growers across the 5 states and it sounds to me like, yes there some damage but it's manageable damage and we're thinking on the high side - 10%.
He says a lot of orchards are seeing about 5% damage so there is still a good crop.
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