ONE SHOT: MISHA’S PEACH FALLS DOWN THE DIG DUG HOLE
“Peach Falls Down the Dig Dug Hole”, by Misha, part of Gallery 1988 San Francisco‘s fairy-tale-inspired art exhibit Beyond the Page, opening tonight at 7pm at their 1173 Sutter Street location.
See the rest of the art here, including two more of Misha’s Peach/Alice crossover paintings (and several dozen more unbelievably amazing works).
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SPOREBROWSER: THE THIRD PARTY, API-DRIVEN IPHONE SPORE-PEDIA
The latest best thing to come from Maxis opening its Spore API? Spencer Alves has put together the SporeBrowser: a free, open-source iPhone app that does nothing more or less than let you browse the game’s creature creations on the go in simple bare-bones list form.
The app has listings for the game’s Featured creatures, top rated, most recent, popular and new, creatures from the Cute & Creepy Pack, Maxis’s own, or simply a random — and lets you drill down to that specific user’s creatures from there.
Find more info and the source code here, and find the app on the App Store here.
SporeBrowser [googlepages, App Store link, via @SporeGame]
Previously:
- Data-mashers at the ready: Maxis opens the Spore API – Offworld
- Fragile things: Aaron Meyers' API-driven Spore skeletons – Offworld
- Skeletons alive: Aaron Meyers' Spore creatures now in augmented …
- Intelligent designer: Chris Hecker's Liner Notes for Spore – Offworld
- EA tosses new parts into Spore patch – Offworld
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PS3 PRODUKKT: MORE DEMOSCENE DOWNLOADS COMING FROM .KKRIEGER DEVS
Perhaps the last announcement you thought you’d see drop today, but a happy one for the art/tech/demoscene lovers nonetheless: following their earlier involvement with demoscene regulars Plastic with the PlayStation Network downloadable Linger in Shadows, Sony has just announced they’ve partnered with .theprodukkt to produce a new downloadable demo called .deTuned.
.theprodukkt are best known for their semi-legendary 96k first-person-shooter demo .kkrieger (screenshot here, and yes, all of that was procedurally packed into less than 100k), and, says Sony, will be bringing their talents to PSN in the form of an interactive visualizer for your own locally stored music, as compared to Linger in Shadows’ “art piece” experience.
Sony’s not offering much more yet, but check their official blog post for more dolphin and faux-Domo screenshots.
Introducing .deTuned [PlayStation.Blog]
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SHARK WEEK PASSED: CAMILLE YOUNG’S CUSTOM EARTHBOUND TOYS STILL SORT OF AVAILABLE
Consider this a massive mea culpa: not realizing the deadline was quite so soon, I put off posting about these custom hand-made figurines of Earthbound/Mother series enemy Shark Punk, and now the deadline for the first lottery-style sale has just passed.
The figurines were made by Camille ‘meeellla‘ Young in an initial set of ten, with official un-official Earthbound merchandise clearinghouse Fangamer holding a contest to see who would be able to buy the first five.
All hope’s not lost, though, the final five will be blind-auctioned through Fangamer, and the possibility remains that Young will do further colorway rounds in the future.
Head over to Fangamer for more information on the remaining set, and see Young’s flickr-set for more fantastic photography of her creation.
Shark Punk Figurines [Fangamer]
Previously:
- Oh my pork, indeed: Fangamer releases fan-created Mother 3 …
- Mother 3: Behind the Music – Offworld
- Mother 3 musical toe-dip into Bach, Vivaldi, Satie… Batman …
- Roll your own Mr. Saturn Earthbound toy, Metroid hat – Offworld
- Mother 3 translators start Earthbound Central blog – Offworld
- Saturn-ine: another Mother/Earthbound treat we can't have – Offworld
- Earthbound goods for the rest of us – Offworld
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ONE SHOT: STEPHEN GERDING’S NERD-DAD DUALSHOCK
[via Stephen ‘nerddad‘ Gerding]
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ONE SHOT: SNAKE’S COLOSSAL KATAMARI
Colossal Katamari [pixeljoint, via SuperPunch]
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ONE SHOT: KARSTEN SCHMIDT’S ATARI 800XL/XE SCRAPBOOK
Archiving my very 1st teenage steps with the Atari 800XL in the form of a folder full of code, sketches & references (all created between 1988-1991)…
At 13 I started with writing pure hex code, then taught myself the 6502 flavour of Assembler (only learned Z80 before) but then got more & more into game design, icons & demo scene activities (as coder, gfx and chiptunes & co-organizer) and started building several tools & games (incl. The Brundles, a commercial Lemmings clone for the 8-bit Atari in ’93)
Atari 800XL/XE set [flickr, toxi.co.uk, postspectacular, Schmidt’s generative ‘Nokia Friends’ characters]
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RIGG’D UP: BRüTAL LEGEND’S LATEST FEELGOOD TRAILER
I think we can all agree there is no part of this that won’t strike a happy chord with just about everyone.
Brütal Legend [EA/Double Fine, via benisadork]
Previously:
- Brütal news is now: EA to publish Brütal Legend – Offworld
- GDC: Host Master, Tim Schafer's finest point & click in a decade …
- Double Fine Open the Psycho-pedia – Offworld
- Listen: Double Fine's Psychonauts soundtracks go 'e' – Offworld
- Tim Schafer releases original Grim Fandango design docs. – Offworld
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LOVELESS: CACTUS’S LATEST SOFT-FOCUS GEOMETRIC PLATFORMER IN MOTION
Following his screenshot montage preview from the beginning of the week, Cactus has given us a further taste of his “game about killing everything you love” an official trailer, and it’s as beautifully hard to read as you might’ve hoped.
I definitely see hints of Night Game-esque geometric platforming, and maybe traces of a warped-perspective Kula World in those later single-path rolling sections?
Trailer [Cactus Squid, cactus-soft]
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OFFWORLD GIVEAWAY: HAIKU YOUR WAY TO A FREE COPY OF ROLANDO
After taking part in Best Buy’s ongoing promotion to give away a copy of Rolando with every iPod Touch or iTunes gift card ordered (which — I’m not ashamed to admit — I finagled solely to own a small piece of physical Rolando art), I’ve officially ended up with an extra code for the game to give away.
After a brief discussion with guest blogger Tiff, we’ve decided to give away the game in the form of a contest, so here’s the rules: at any point over the weekend (let’s say until midnight PST), send a twitter reply to @offworld with a Rolando-based haiku. You’ll have 130 characters to work with, which I think should be enough.
Then, on Monday, Rolando creator Simon Oliver (@handcircus) will pick his favorite from the batch of entries, and vi-ola, the code will be yours.
Need some inspiration? Head over to the official Rolando site for video and screenshots, or download the free Lite version of the game for a taste.
Good luck!
[Note that, unfortunately, the code will only work for the U.S. iTunes App Store accounts. And, yes, deepest apologies that the @offworld account has devolved to a simple RSS repeater, I’ll be working up some more creative uses in the near future. Follow my standard @brandonnn account for more active Offworld-related activity.]
Rolando home [ngmoco, Hand Circus]
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