Published on
December 30, 2007 in
Personal.
This was the first excuse I could find to use my new camera. I’ve been wanting to do this since I saw the tutorial article pop up on boingboing.net. Zach did a couple, and then Evan and I got in on the fun the second time around, and since then I’ve wanted to try intentionally letting the bleach run down the shirt, and I’ve been working out a design to use that ever since.
Sam was also interested in making one, so we came up with designs together. I took a few pictures and the basic explanation is given in the descriptions in the photo set.
I’m writing today to show you a glimpse of an indie game that has as much to offer you as almost any console game I’ve ever played (I make special exceptions for truly exceptional games, like Smash Bros). The game is Aquaria an adventure game set underwater much in the lines of Metroid with bits slightly reminiscent of Final Fantasy and borrowing gameplay elements from top-down shooters. I found the game completely by accident as I was trying out the various games from gamma 256 and one of the games, Célu, was not available to download, so I went looking for it, in the process finding a trailer for Aquaria which was another project by the same designer that he was working on with one other person. The video looked amazing and I immediately forgot about Célu to go look for more info on Aquaria.
As it turned out I had discovered the game only a day after its online-exclusive release. As it was, the website for the game was down and I only managed to dig up the off-site purchase link from the Google cache of what used to be the site. After a quick email exchange with the guy, he assured me that though the site was down, the purchase and download process would proceed without problem, so I purchased without hesitation and I have certainly not been disappointed.
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Published on
December 5, 2007 in
Virals.
It’s a catchy song on its own, but it makes some very true and rather humorous observations about the state of our economy and the internet itself. Here’s the audio if you’d like to download it: The Richter Scales – Here Comes Another Bubble.mp3 Continue reading for the video:
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