The Open-Frameworks-Community is keep on pushing the borders at the iPhone. The latest strike is the Sonic Wire Sculpture from Amit Pitaru (we had this also on this blog), that found its way to this lovely mobile device. Zach Gage, who made apps like Unify or SynthPond helped in porting this app.

The Sonic Wire Sculptor turns “darwing into sound”. Really hard to describe this things in words, when you can look at this video, that explains the concept really well. Sonicwire is on Twitter as well.

And than there was this camera mounted on a Yo-Yo. Really sick stuff. Enjoy!
(via Doc-Pop)

Oh, the 4-th dimension. Not really easy to understand – but why not make a game of it? Miegakure does so. It is a puzzle-platformer, where you have to explore the rules of the 4th dimension to solve the stages. Only some screenshots and this gameplay video is available until now, but the game should be available for PC/Mac and consoles later on. It seems, that XKCD already had a play with it.

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redScratch is an upcoming game from Hungary, that looks quite promising at the first glance. This game will be a “fast 2D action platformer with 9 unique stages“, the author Balázs Sabransky tells at the pixelinvoke-blog. It will somehow focus on essential things: It should no be very long or won’t have an epic story, but it should be a challenging game, with tons of secrets in it. Yummy. If we look at the first demo-video, than we can detects an emphasis on style and gameplay as well. redScratch should be free and availble for PC later this year.

Ecological-themed games are still some sort of exotic thing, I wonder why. Lately I came across the iPhone-game Kovoclak, where you have to fight waste in the form of an “businessman”. This game Big Tree Defense is a casual, gameplay is derived from “Desktop Tower Defense”. Your mission is to grow a plant in a wasted environment. To grow you must fight evil insects and support the plant with water. What makes the game remarkable is not only the topic, but also the style of sound and grafic is some decent. Worth a try. (via Superlevel)

This one shouldn’t be too hard to make and this sort of augumented reality is somehow kind of cool. The project was made with the ARToolKit. I guess homebrewers and hackers could make much more great stuff with it. So check it out! (via Tiny Cartridge)

“Action Buttons” is a minimalistic sound-sculpture made by Steve D’Angelo, presenting buttons and according soundeffects if you press them. The aesthetic of this work is clearly attached to old videogame-machines. It’s only logical, that you must insert a coin, to make this thing up and running. The work could also be read as an extremely reduced game as well. (via)