Play Areas
Areas is an pretty super exercise in minimalist design. There’s no sound effects, any graphics are purely functional, no text, and a simpler input mechanism than I previously thought was possible. Only the movement of the mouse is used. No clicks. No keyboard buttons. Unlike the graphical design, the decision to only use mouse [...]
So I just wanted to drop a quick note about Knytt Stories. If you haven’t played it, I assure that it will improve your quality of life. It’s just got a real nice, quiet atmosphere. And the atmosphere is what really makes the game.
Download here.
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I guess I’m a bit late to the Dan Deacon party, [...]
Two fun looking food construction ideas I came across yesterday:
Pixel Cookies. Or biscuits in the old tongue. A playdough extruder is used to create pixels out of biscuit dough, which can be arranged into pixel art!
Edible Googly Eyes. With FSM attached! Edible Googly eyes are constructed from vitamin casings and large sprinkles.
I’ll post if I [...]
A full week without a post! That’s very bad form! But I have been away without internet, so that is my excuse.
Anyway, my site was on Daily Slurp while I was away. That is pretty cool since my basic technique for generating web site design ideas when I get stuck is browsing Daily Slurp and [...]
So the Peel Trident is pretty much the greatest car ever. My heart was broken when he says that only 80 were made. But it’s okay! Apparently there’s a whole lot of other really tiny cars.
They’re all brilliant. Here’s some of my favorites: 1 2 3 4 5
Via: Prom.
I’m a complete Firefox fanboy. There’s so many plugins that I couldn’t be without that I’m wedded to the browser.
However, there’s always been one thing about Safari that has made me want to change browsers: when you save an image by dragging it out of the window (something I do often while browsing ConceptArt.org), a [...]
I’ve just downloaded a program called SFXR by DrPetter. Windows only unfortunately, but really worth having. It’s a really simple specialised tool for creating 8-bit style sound effects that even I, who knows nothing of pitches and tones can use to make cool things. You can use the selection of sliders to change the attack, [...]
(My new shoebox inbox! Who says you can’t be thrifty and organised)
So I’m trying out Getting Things Done again. Well, at least my own hacked together version. The basic idea is to turn all those wafty, hard to define knowledge work ideas and projects into solid actions that you know how to do, when [...]
Let’s be clear here. I don’t understand Hooting Yard on the Air, but I’m slowly getting closer to doing so. Although Frank Key’s stories are available in written form, the recorded format is perfect for them. In the written form, I simply cannot focus for long enough to trawl through the massive blocks of lengthy [...]