Each lite-adventure-game episode is a trip into surreal worlds of floating Lincoln heads/Brian Wilson drinking chocolate milk/bettemidler.exe, each better than the last, and only a let down in that there hasn’t been a new update for six months.
See more of his various works via benisadork, including the latest episode of his games podcast Pixel Babble.
Yeti Knight Adventures [Ben Ross, via attractmo.de]
The EP features chiptune regulars like STARPAUSE but isn’t exclusively chip music, though my top pick of the EP (next to Harbour’s downtempo and dubby “did you forget”) is Wyatt Gurp’s “The Dark Sword of Chaos”, the theme song for an 8-bit boss battle never made.
The release party itself will take place Thursday April 23, 2009 at 8:00pm at San Francisco’s Caffeine, located at 835 Geary, and will feature “new school electro DJs making music on Linux, Linux robotics demonstrations courtesy of Orb SWARM, free Jackalope CDs, and a fat bearded dork wet Linux t-shirt contest (weather permitting).” (! to the last bit there)
Every once and a while it’s well worth it to dip your toes into the Flickr photo pools of geek and videogame crafts. Browsing today to see if Perler bead fan art had taken its post-impressionistic course, I was instead thrilled to find snorkmaiden‘s tiny crocheted Day of the Tentacle amigurumi. Crafted with keen detail, take note that Purple Tentacle is properly poised with two arms and a unibrow in opposition to his much less mutated Green Tentacle comrade.
As long as it’s a good day for LucasArts craft work, don’t miss out on karaimame‘s intricately designed Max amigurumi, which looks just as four-fingered and maniacal as the original hyperkinetic rabbit thingy himself.
Apparently imagining instrument brick destruction was thinking entirely too small: Microsoft’s new entry for the just-announced TT/Harmonix crossover Lego Rock Band implies that the game has its sights set on even more wanton rock wreckage, detailing:
LEGO-themed rock challenges: Play killer riffs to destroy a giant robot, summon a storm, and demolish a skyscraper using the power of rock!
Now, Sebastien Wolff has gone one further, having arranged the entirety of the soundtrack for solo piano, and made his scores available for download. They’re available in PDF, Midi, and Sibelius formats, but I’d recommend the PDF if only for the charming art direction of the whole affair.
It’s strictly unofficial, but Sebastien’s produced smart, entertaining arrangements of the already charming soundtrack, and given how much we love World of Goo here at Offworld, how could we not link to this?
Sony has taken tomorrow’s Earth Day as cause to announce that Sony Japan’s previously mentioned original PS3 downloadable trash-stacking puzzle game Gomibako to North America as Trash Panic.
As you can see above, the game takes Tetris and channels it through physics-enhanced trash compacting, trying to fit as many kilos in one go as possible, and using heavier objects to smash down breakables as much as possible.
Sony haven’t announced a firm date, simply adding that the game will be released by the end of Spring.
SquareEnix’s other game of the Microsoft preview — the wonderfully titled 0 day Attack on Earth — is also another Xbox Live Arcade dual-stick shooter.
This time, though it looks somewhere in between fantastic long-running Sandlot series Earth Defense Force and underdog PlayStation Network favorite The Last Guy, with relentless alien invaders being shot down over Paris, New York, and Tokyo on what would appear to be playfields procured from Google Earth.
