Patapon is an upcoming Nintendo DS homebrew game, that is… somehow different. Look at this video, to see the gameplay in action (the bottom screen) to understand, that the flow of the game has a very special rhythm. I somehow like it. Read more about it a E-Eragons site, who works on this title. (via)
Update:
The DS homebrew above is made after a living PSP-game:
This is almost a must read about URL-shorteners, or in other words, what we do to the internet right now:
“The humble hyperlink, thanks to pervasive URL shortening, can now be wielded as a weapon. The internet is the house that PageRank built, and it’s all predicated on hyperlinks. Once you start making every link your special flavor of “shortened” link, framing the target content — heck, maybe wrapping it in a few ads for good measure — you’ve completely turned that system on its head.”
The rise of Twitter and URL-shorteners, that are connected to them as a completely new, I want to say “private owned”, layer to the internet, that makes the DNS and php-serverbased URL structure almost obsolete in a special sense.
Just read the whole article on codinghorror. Hot reading of the day:
“What’s aggravating to me is that the current situation is completely accidental. If Twitter had provided a sane way to link a single word, none of these weaselly URL shortening clones would have reared their ugly heads at all. (…) Every tiny URL is another baby step towards destroying the web as we know it. Which is exactly what you’d want to do if you’re attempting to build a business on top of the ruins.”
This video is absolutely fantastic. Music comes from Birdy Nam Nam, that seem to be four turntabelists from France with some heavyweight electro. The video was made by Will Sweeney and Steve Scott.
For the German-speaking readers and demoscene-lovers. At Superlevel is an interesting interview with Shahzad “Kojote” Sahaib about his project “Gianas Return” (follow up on Giana Sisters) and the games-scene in general, especially remakes and follow-ups of classic games.
Update: I found an in-depth review of Giana Sisters DS at the Lotek64-Magazine 30 (free download pdf), but it’s in German, too).
A rocket, a man in space-suit, a spacehouse…
Tractor made of 18 parts.
Today I discovered a new Lego-Blog, that is worth reading (or better to look at the pictures of their works): MicroBricks. The thing they build a simple, small scale and make effective use of less tiles, in order to achieve more. The have (not) surprisingly a good amount of urban- / city- / architecture-topics in their works. Just as good as playing SimCity.
Summertime – partytime! There are several events in this summer in Germany, that you don’t want to miss. We make the start of the summer-season with our Cologne-Commons Festival for free music culture (as you can guess it’s in Cologne, 12.-13.6.2009).
After that the torch is given to the guys of the Future of Music Barcamp in Mannheim, that will be held on the 4.-5. July 2009.
The beginning of August is as usual travelling and party time. This year you have the choice to move your lazy ass to Cologne, to the cosiest demoscene-event in the world Evoke. Or you choose to join the Indie Game Jam in Berlin. Both events are exactly on the same date: 31. July – 2./3. August 2009.
Got more recommendations? Leave a comment!
Can you beat cuteness with mote cuteness? Yes! Just take a look at this upcoming title for the Nintendo DS in Japan: Mamegoma 3. I do not know about the gameplay, but it seems to be a wild mixture of virtual pet, toy and a collection of minigames. To be honest, where ones complain about “extreme brutality” in shooting games, this one just shows the other direction of extreme: Brutal cuteness. I want to have one! (via)
