I’m not the biggest fan of “old tunes on new instruments” in general. But this “unplugged version” from a Last Ninja tune is so very great and relaxing, making it a brilliant summer tune as well!! (via Superlevel, maYO)
Beautiful handdrawn (and mouthplayed) mashup from Russia.
Looming is a strange and small atmospheric exploration game, that instantly reminds on – oh – very vintage Atari and Macintosh-games with its hard monochromatic style.
The player is left out in a wasted, empty space. He must find paths, collect items and solve riddles. The items belong to collections, depending on who to combine them, new stories evolve, resulting in nine different endings of the game. Looming is browser-play ready. (via)
Back from holidays, and directly a cool announcement to make: In August (6.-9. 8. 2010) the BIGJam invites us to jam along a whole day and night about games, games and games. “BIGJam offers programmers, designers, artists and musicians from around the world a chance to work together on exciting independent game projects in a relaxed, creative environment.” It’s an “opportunity to get together in one place and collaborate on exciting and, hopefully, absurdly inventive projects“. The event is also a change, to get qualified feedback from gaming-enthusiasts on own project, or to listen to talks about various topics (including programming and making music – such things…)
Get all, all information about the BIGJam 2010 in the TIGSource-forum. Unfortunately the ticket-system says, that all amounts of available tickets for the BIGJam are already sold out.
Jay Tholen submitted a post to True Chip Till Death, where he announced his album “Fruiht Tageur“, that is available as free download (mp3/flac). This album is too obscure and too good, to be ignored. Fruiht Tageur is a vivid journey through strange, half-lit landscapes. It’s a crossover of many different genres, a little bit of chipmusic, pop and even progressive rock. The instruments used on this production are as diverse as the genres. Chipmusic meets bass, vocals, ukulele and drums. Simply a great piece of art. Don’t miss this download!
Goto80 is keep on doing really strange stuff with electronics, especially old computers and customized software. This work is a “Re-destruction of the Dutch national anthem”, he wanted to perform at Hacking at Random 2009. It was somehow dedicated to the Bits of Freedom, the civil rights organization from the Netherlands. Goto80 point out in his blog about this piece:
Unfortunately I got sick and couldn’t attend, but this is the video of the rehearsal. The software is Defmon, and you can’t copy it. Not so much improvisation in this one, except for the trashy solo at the end, but I’ll post more of those things later on.
I do not want to rate the music, because anthems in any or another way are always a little bit of hardcore. But Goto80 understands to mix a dark and gloomy atmosphere, with extraordinary “hacker moods” and very exotic software and processes. The whole thing just looks, if it wants to explode the next second.
Jenova Chen of ThatGameCompany talks in this interview about some of the design strategies, he found in making games. A small, but enlightening talk, that makes us curious about the upcoming onlinegame “Journey”, that will be released on the Playstation Network. (via Attract Mode / Nobuooo)
