Category: Links

A game that is a lot of fun for all the wrong reasons: zombie nuns, explosions and gore. An entry into the 4th Casual Gameplay Competition.

Olly’s insightful and aesthetically pleasing presentation at Euro IA Summit 2007 on the apparent need for ethical design on the web.

“The biggest challenge facing organisations is not so much coercing people into being more innovative as getting themselves out of the way when people try to innovate.” Too true.

Well executed little diving game created for the Kokoromi Gamma 256 competition. Love the low rez pixel graphics and the minimalist interactions.

Great alternative to QOOP for making nice photobooks out of your Flickr photos. They made the 24 Hours of Flickr book which is really nice.

A musical instrument for the digital age designed to be beautiful. By the creator of Electroplankton.

“Paladin, you have reached the 8th bracket of tax!” Via Peter.

A short post on the collector’s spirit and how it’s catalyzed online. In the comments someone points out social bookmark sites play into this collecting urge. I’d say it’s play at work.

“A mobile phone application for visualizing our urban familiar strangers.”

An app written in Processing that offers different visualizations of a database containing indexed human emotions as found on blogs. Via Almar.

“Officially launching in December, Playyoo will offer a sort of YouTube for a mobile gaming that offers free games for mobile phones, user-generated content, social interaction and personal expression.”

Cool little intro video to Arduino with some pirate silliness thrown in for good measure. Makes me feel like buying some of that stuff and geeking out.

Awesome talk on how the seemingly impossible is possible. With great insights into what the goals and means for welfare are and some sword-swallowing to boot.

Fun little showcase of what Mobile Processing can do.

A collaboration between a diverse group of people all involved with pervasive games. Sadly their mailing list is broken. Via Andy and James.

23, creators of a Flickr-like photosharing service are developing their service further (accounts in your own design and under your own URL) and are launching new products as a company that support visual sharing in the workspace.

“Apparently you can’t do a Pong remake without approval from Atari”

Ever since I saw Ahtisaari speak on Blyk at Reboot I’ve been anxious to see it actually go live. Here it is, a free mobile network for young people. I love the seemingly random amounts of free messages (217) & calls (43).

A Photoshop killer for Mac priced 59 USD? You’ve got to be kidding. Giving this a testrun right now and at first glance it’s quite good. Adobe look out.

Footage of upcoming indie game that involves you helping a bear find its way home. Nice cartoony visual style, intriguing control scheme. Shame about the crap sound that accompanies the clip.

Good lord, Samba de Amigo is coming to the Wii. That’s it, I need to get my Wii over from NL to DK.

Timo describes the Picnic photo-booth – an RFID-enabled, it uploads to Flickr and automatically creates relations in Picnic’s social networking site. My favorite photos are the ludic ones where people try to trick the technology into doing silly stuff.

A new Stamen piece for Digg. Not sure this classifies as insightful but it sure is pretty and like the rest of the Digg pieces gives you a feel for the activity on there.

On using books for interior decoration. I know it’s tacky, but I’d love to have a wall full of books in my home.

Fun little platform game with some interesting mechanics: fire ‘anomalies’ that change gravity and then use them to reach the exit. Minimalist but effective visuals as well.

Cook shares some of the storyboards he’s made for an upcoming game, discussing the process of how they are made, used and shared along the way.

A first testrun was quite encouraging. Perhaps worth using sometime to explain a concept on my blog. Seems unusable unless you have a Wacom tablet though.