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We had some fun playing our latest mobile game - Roll Back Home - on a TV!

SimCity 2000, Maxis, 1994

This is my childhood, flashing in front of my eyes.

No Bullshit Pixel Art Tutorial — Week 1

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

This is my attempt to start sharing everything I know about pixel art as concisely as possible. It comes in the form of focused tips, packaged into 10 second videos. The intro + first two are already online. The rest of Week 1 will air one per day for the rest of the week. Go view them at:

giveit100.com/pixelart

The slides above expand on the videos and act as cheat sheets on the topics I cover. Like & reblog if you want to support this project.

retronator

Planets³ by Cubical Drift

I found this game on Kickstarter. It’s basically making my dream art direction come true. Ah, I can just sit back and enjoy while they work their asses off for my $20. :)

retronator

Speccy Bird — ZX Spectrum Flappy Bird demake for Flappy Jam.

retronator

God damn it feels good to be home again.

slogamedev

Točno 1 leto je minilo od kar je druščina pri Dawn of Play izdala igro za iOS, katera je dosegala visoke ocene kritikov in odlična mnenja velikanov kot so Kotaku in TouchArcade. Tokrat so se vrnili z Android različico, ki pa je čisto zastonj! In to še ni vse, igro lahko dobite sedaj...

Carvings = Pine Bark + Swiss Knife + me

The Elephant.

#elephant #carving #art #Victorinox Swiss Army #knife #pine bark #bark

Carvings = Pine Bark + Swiss Knife + me

The Giraffe.

#giraffe #carving #art #victorinox swiss army #knife #animals #pine bark #bark

Fighting the heat. And no, not by leaving the fridge open.

Hexbug (8+)

... I know komarnik-fu.

creativealt

If you follow any kind of game news you’ve heard that the PC games distribution platform Desura was bought by Linden Lab of Second Life fame.

This news is interesting for Creative Alternative from various standpoints:

Desura is the home of distributions of Dwarf Fortress, …

thepostofsomethingelse

zigah

Not just good for the summer brain drain, but life in general.

Haptic device heat SDK

Playing Nightmare mode in Dream of Pixels with all the fire in the background makes the phone hot - it's a FEATURE - haptic stuff, a kind of force feedback, right? Uh UH - I think we should make an SDK around this with a really simple API sth like this maybe: com.DawnOfHaptic.heatDeviceTo(int temperature) com.DawnOfHaptic.setUnits(bool useFahrenheit) It would be quite complex on the inside, though - first we'd need to carefully assess the idle time of the GPU and CPU left in a certain game/app using it, then "burn" precisely the amount of CPU and GPU operations needed (varies per device) to heat it to the desired temperature. Of course, we collect the analytics data on the heating of all devices world-wide and aggregate it to calculate the effect on the global warming - so it's kind-of a green technology as well. Higher purposes and all that.