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Becoming obsessed with pixels again.

It’s a good sign that you are hopelessly obsessed with a game when you find yourself buying accessories to said game that you can’t even really use. This just got in: It’s the official Monster Hunter Tri Guide … in Japanese o_O I have the habit to buy game guides to games I invested a lot of time it. [...]

Today I saw a quite interesting Movie. It is called Splice. You might have heard about it. Enjoy a trailer if you didn’t. The director of Splice was Vincenzo Natali, who also directed the weird mindfuck Cypher and the low-budget philosophic claustrophobic slasher masterpiece Cube which I enjoyed quite a bit. If you don’t know that last [...]

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If I look at some of my more recent works, it seems, that pop slowly begins to vanish, opening rooms for more and more archaic.

Made on a slow train, in early spring.

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Terry Cavanagh, you probably know him from the game VVVVVV released a casual flashgame: memrrtiks, suashem. The visuals are distracting like the title “memrrtiks, suashem”. The shooter is like every shooter about shooting at things, but the visual outcome, combined with the filtered soundeffects make the game a unique experience. Many would throw it in the box, labeled “art games“.

The game originated as a project of the TIGJam UK. Terry wrote in his blog, that he will release some of the productions one by one. Just if he finished each work.

And here is a little video footage from memrrtiks, suashem, but it can’t replace a play of the game. (via)

What sounds like a Japanese game title is actually what really happened recently. Space geekout time! The Japanese space probe Hayabusa returned to Earth. And by returned to Earth I mean it burned up in the atmosphere over Australia. But wait! I wouldn’t mention such thing if they wasn’t a hook. Hayabusa brought something back! A small [...]

This video shows incredible 190 indie-games, that are currenty in development. Compiled and collected by Pixel Prospector. At the site are also much more infos about each single game.

This video shows incredible 190 indie-games, that are currenty in development. Compiled and collected by Pixel Prospector. At the site are also much more infos about each single game.

It’s funny how Nintendo is always able to trick the other two console manufacturers. Four years ago, while Sony and Microsoft were struggling to out-hardcore each other, Nintendo came in with a fundamental different strategy to leave it’s competitors in the dust. Now, as they are finally catching up, Nintendo avoids confrontation again by swinging [...]

Months passed with new features and constant improvement. At the end of this week, I want to submit a first version to the public. I proposed this to Friday, but do not know, how much time the review-process of the App-Store will take into account. The feature set is basic, but with the “Send .png per e-mail”-function, it is possible to integrate works made with Smoove to any workflow, just by having a valid e-mail adress.

The release will be V0.4 and the initial price is 2.99 Dollar / 2,39 Euro. Future updates are free, and there will be a lot. In an incremental fashion.

PS: The pixels on the screenshots made by scnclr.de.

der mensch lebt zwar nicht vom brot allein, aber ohne brot eben auch keine kunst. letzteres sagte goethe, und wenn goethe über kunst spricht, dann schliessen wir uns dem doch mit gutem gewissen an.

soviel heute zur kunst nun zum geschäft.

wir haben ja zuletzt selber nicht mehr so recht daran geglaubt. in zahlreichen teammeetings und den firmenparties im wz center wurde es mittlerweile zum running-gag: der relaunch. immer wieder geplant, dann wegen zeitmangel aufgeschoben und neu angegangen.

doch trotz zunehmender skepsis ist es uns am ende gelungen und wir gehen online mit der version 0.9 unserer neuen webseite. klar das ein oder andere muss noch mal überarbeitet werden, manche tür ist noch nicht lackiert und an der ein oder anderen schraube wird noch mal gedreht werden.

aber so ist das eben bei einem neubau, wir wollen nicht zu kleinlich sein:
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With E3 underway most of the games presented in the press conferences can be put into two categories: boring 3D shooters and Microsoft Kinect (with the notable exceptions like the new Rayman game). Here are some quick random thoughts on the new Microsoft input device. The Name: Is bad. “Kinect” as in Kinetic and Connect? It is [...]

Let me pimp something real quick. The Cologne Game Lab recently interviewed none other than Jakub Dvorský – the guy behind the famous indie game studio Amanita Design, responsible for Samorost, Samorost II and Machinarium. Turns out Jakub has been doing the production design for an amazing Chech puppet movie. Yes, you want to see that Trailer NOW. The [...]