ONE SHOT: SPACE INVADERS EXTREME, THE CAR
Retro-spectrum Mini Cooper concept design by Portland’s Matt W. Moore, also available in Pac-Man Championship Edition flavor. [via mbf]
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8-BIT TWEETS: JAMES KAY’S GAMEBIRDTM PAPERCRAFT
And, sticking with the theme, one more traditional model from Josh McKible’s always excellent NaniBird papercraft series: the GameBirdTM, from James ‘Score Studios‘ Kay, Japan-based developer who most recently worked as an artist on the Wii’s Harvest Moon series. [thanks, Jean!]
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- Electroparchment: Tubbypaws' papercraft Toshio Iwai & Tenori-On …
- Folders League United: trogdoriangrey's Team Fortress papercraft …
- Knight folds: Crzisme's Castle Crashers papercraft
- My Virtual Memory: Harlancore's adorable Nintendo/RPG papercraft …
- Welcome to violence: Horrorwood's papercraft arcade
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ONE SHOT: MARIO CHEATS!
This Game Cheats!, by Akron illustrator Johnny Yanok. See also: Dr. Mario.
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WIDE OPEN UNIVERSE: SPORE PATCH LETS YOU EXPORT CREATURES TO MAYA
More interesting developments from the Spore camp, as art director Ocean Quigley notes that the game’s most recent patch allows you to export any of your creatures to 3D modeling package Maya (or any Collada-supporting suite) to do with them as you will.
Adds Quigley: “The exported creations include normal, diffuse and specular maps, and are fully rigged and weighted, so you can pose them too,” and hints that building and vehicle support should be coming soon.
Full step by step directions are available in a separate post on Quigley’s blog. Let us know if you create anything wonderful!
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LISTEN, TOO: 2D BOY’S GABLER, OCREMIX MUSICIANS RELEASE CANCER BENEFIT CD SONGS FOR THE CURE
First mentioned back in March as Relay for Life — a charity CD being put together to raise money for the American Cancer Society — Kokoromi member Heather Kelley updates to note that the compilation has just been released to iTunes and amazon.mp3 as Songs for the Cure ’09, with some 19 tracks by indie and games-related musicians.
You can preview the tracks via either site, which so far have turned up very strong showings by 2D Boy’s Kyle Gabler with a skittering downtempo track that doesn’t sound far removed from the excellent score he composed for World of Goo, Joshua ‘Zen Albatross‘ Kopstein with a very bouncy chiptune track, and Heather Kelley herself, pulling vocal duties on Don’t Eat Sky’s track Pears that may or may not be about a game itself (reference the lyrics here).
Keep watching Josh Whelchel’s site for more information on the release (which it seems hasn’t quite been updated yet), which, at the end of the initial push, had already raised some $5600 for the cause.
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PAPERCRAFT FOR THE REST OF US: CUBECRAFT’S PAPER NES
If you’re as frequently intimidated by the finger-jamming origami complexity of some of the papercraft we regularly feature: here’s one for you, a no-muss Nintendo Entertainment System, released by Cubecraft for no apparent reason, but useful, the site says, as a replacement head for any of their more traditional models.
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DRAG ME TO AZEROTH: RAIMI TAPPED FOR WORLD OF WARCRAFT FILM
In the off chance that you still haven’t heard, Blizzard dropped a late-night release to announce that Evil Dead, Spider-Man and Drag Me to Hell director Sam Raimi has officially been chosen to direct a forthcoming movie based on World of Warcraft, alongside The Dark Knight/12 Monkeys producer Charles Roven, and 300/Watchmen/The Hangover production company Legendary Pictures.
Blizzard has yet to announce any further details except to say that its senior VP of creative development Chris Metzen will also be co-producing the film, which is tentatively slated for 2011 release, and will begin shooting, Variety reports, after Raimi completes Spider-Man 4.
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LISTEN, ALSO: LOW-TECH SHOEGAZERS TREE WAVE RETURN WITH FREE 10 INCH EP
Apparently we’re in the midst of a Very Musical Wednesday, so let’s keep it going as strong as could be imagined with this: the latest, long anticipated and entirely free EP from frequently featured Dallas hacked-up hardware shoegaze (or are we actually calling it chip-gaze now?) outfit Tree Wave, simply titled 10 Inch.
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It’s hard to pick just one of the four tracks to feature, but above is my favorite, realaudio9, which comes as close to the gloriously upbeat, muddied ethereal drone of My Bloody Valentine as I believe is allowed by law, before then opening up into a section of hypnotic cut-up rhythm.
It’s a bit of a departure from their earlier Cabana EP, which relied much more blatantly on the sounds of the Atari 2600’s SynthCart, C64 equivalent CynthCart, and a firmware hacked Epson LQ500 dot-matrix printer, all instruments of Tree Wave lead Paul Slocum’s own design.
But, all four tracks are extremely strong, and carry hints of off-kilter ‘oriental’ melodies that vaguely remind me how much I’ve missed now-defunct Athens group Macha (see also, especially: their collaborative EP with Bedhead).
Slocum’s had some difficulty keeping the site alive for all the downloading, but it looks like it’s back to stable now: grab the EP while you still can. [UPDATE: Slocum’s mirrored the release here, too, if you’re having download troubles.]
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KYLE & KYLE & ALLAN: EXPERIMENTAL GAMEPLAY DEVS CLARIFY WIIWARE GAME NEWS
Take this as an implied mea-culpa: in my quick-post yesterday I noted Nintendodpad’s news about Experimental Gameplay Project co-founders Kyle Gabler, Kyle Gray, and Allan Blomquist collaborating on a new WiiWare project based on an old EGP experiment, and shorthanded — with the post’s 140 character brevity, and as did Nintendopad — their ‘company’ as 2D Boy.
Though Gabler and Blomquist did work together on the WiiWare version of World of Goo as 2D Boy, this new proposed project is being undertaken without the involvement of 2D Boy co-founder Ron Carmel, and so — as they’ve just clarified in a new Experimental Gameplay post — is not to be confused with a new 2D Boy game.
The game is still, the team says, due to be based on a pre-relaunch EGP prototype (all of which you can find here), but they add (luridly) that “it’s probably best not to speak about it in more detail prematurely in case the game doesn’t evolve as we hope and we need to shoot that baby in the crib.”
And that’s also not to say that work on 2D Boy’s sophomore effort isn’t moving forward, though Gabler says there’s nothing more to say on that yet, as he and Carmel “are shy and afraid to announce prematurely against World of Goo sized expectations, because we might have a Britney sized meltdown.”
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LISTEN: THE PRODIGY GOING 8-BIT WITH UPCOMING EMULATOR PUNKS CHIPTUNE TRIBUTE
From the 8-bit Operators original, to Miles Davis tribute Kind of Bloop, to Daft Punk, to Weezer, the chiptune cover compilation craze is in full swing, and appears to be not ending any time soon, as True Chip Till Death digs up information on Emulator Punks!!, a new Russian tribute to electropunk outfit The Prodigy.
Above is the first sample from the album, with Paza Rahm‘s “Charly (Trip Into Drum and Bass Paza Chip Remix)”: more information on the upcoming release can be dug up via the official site.
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