Pixeljam are back. After Dino Run they made in cooperation with Adult Swim Games the game “Mountain Maniac“, a strange mixture of Frogger, Pachinko, a fun casual game and some irritating storytelling. You play the “montain maniac” and have the goal to score points by destroying the city below the mountain. You do this by shooting of rocks out of the mountain. Insane stuff. A very retro-gameplay, if you ask me.

What once again is so cool about the Pixeljam-style is the “neo-retro” artwork, that are blocky, pixeled, but at the same time huge and detailed as well. The games are somehow “airy”.

Great idea! Great Execution. A Winamp skin, expecially for the upcoming Blip-Festival. Get it here: .wsz. (via)

(Did you know, we have an Interview with Justin Frankel about the “early years of Winamp” available?)

The Space Invaders project continues and continues. And for the opening of an exhibition in London the Invaders discovered a new medium. The went on “hundreds of helium balloons” that were “displayed in the streets of London”. At this occasion also six new space invaders appeared in London, “including the biggest one ever put in this city”.

I was lately stumbling into NodeBox, Python-based creative code “out-of-the-box” for Mac OS X, and I really love the workflow. Instant code-based drawing in seconds (I think most of you know NodeBox already). While I was inspecting the libraries, I came about RoboFab, some “Python code for manipulation and storage of font and glyph related data“. And they had a very nice introduction on their site, where Erik van Blokland from LettError gives a talk about this tool.

The opening of the presentation is a theory-topic. It is about “Why make new tools?“. This is worth watching. Although, the presentation is also nothing new (it was recorded over a half year ago) I thought: Well, why not share this content? And here it is:

Arcs21 by Lia

iPhoneArt is a still small website, dedicated to artful iPhone and iPod Touch apps. Right at the moment there are only 12 apps listed, most of the creators should be familiar to you: People like Lia, Joshua Davis or Delaware released for the iPhone. Let’s see how this project will progress. Somehow I have to think on two other sites: Artzilla.org – a site dedicated to artful browser-software and PlayState.org – a still fresh project from me, it’s about iPhone, gaming and tools.

Well, the Roboexotica is taking place in Vienna (I think just at this moment). And as you might know, most of this event is about “Cocktail serving robots”. One of the submissions this year takes Super Mario into the duty. A combination of old NES-hardware, water-pumps, an NES-Emulator, some hardware devices and a server written in Python turns this old game, into an “immersive experience”, that also serves alcohol. Voila, what do gamers want more?

Continuity is a very smooth flashgame for the browser. The creator really understood, how to create flow with music, volume levels and a clean and puzzly webdesign. It is not only the effect-side of this game, that is interesting, but also the gameplay itself is worth a look. It’s basically a platformer, but you can rearrange the position of the single level parts. Really nice game! Pick of the week. I guess!
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