“the concrete world is starting to get ya.”
Puzzlebloom is a good looking, fun puzzle game made with Unity. Lovely cel-shaded 3D graphics, and fun too. You play the part of a sort of tree-spirit that posesses dumb creatures and robots, and the aim of the game is to turn each dull grey level into one that’s full of life.
I’m getting more and more impressed with what Unity is capable of, and more concerned that Adobe are really losing out in the web 3D space..
Bow Street Runner won another award last night at the Learning on Screen awards, where it picked up the Special Jury prize. BSR has now won four awards: BAFTA, BIMA, Flashforward, and now this. Fantastic!
Congratulations Channel 4 and Littleloud!
A big thanks to Brighton-based NixonMcInnes for supplying a Wordpress plugin that, with widespread adoption, would help ease the problem that would occur should one of the URL-shortening services die. Jeremy also writes about the problem here.
After activating the NixonMcInnes plugin, the url of this post will be both a search-engine friendly: http://www.iestyn.net/wp/2009/04/07/short-urls-with-wordpress
..and it will also be: http://iestyn.net/wp/?p=290
Ok, so that’s 27 characters vs 25 for a tinyurl, and less should I want to alter some URL rewriting (which I’ll do soon). Not bad, and I’ve just saved my own tiny piece of the internets.
Thanks to the wonderful Google Street View, you can now experience a simulation of the M25! I bet you’ll all spend hours pretending to drive along the most exciting motorway in Europe.
For added realism try sitting in a car while looking at this page on your laptop.
Don’t forget to use cursor keys.
I found myself rather liking the music on the Ant/Hexapod video. The video on Youtube lists the sound track as “Trifonic with Lies”.
A bit of Googling leads me to the Trifonic site, where they’re giving away their album as a DRM free 192k MP3. Or you can pay what you like and have a choice of different formats to download, including FLAC, OGG, 320k MP3, and a few others, all DRM free.
After listening to a few tracks (including the excellent free Gutter Box), I decided to buy the album. This is the first music I’ve bought in a year! There’s no way I would have bought it if they weren’t offering it up like this.
This band gets it. This is how music distribution is going to work in the future. We all get what we want. 
Torque3D allows rendering of a browser onto a surface. Amazing graphics for a browser plugin. Better than Unity maybe?
Via *drawlogic and Garage Games blog.
Perhaps it’s due to all the childhood holidays I used to have in Wales, but I’m never happier than when I’m in Wales. Perhaps it’s something in the psyche; being away from civilisation, high in the mountains, with the plains spread out around you. Or maybe on a deserted beach with huge peaks in the distance. I love Wales, and in particular North Wales.
This feeling has something to do with the blog’s description: “the concrete world is starting to get ya” – which is also lyrics from the Flight of The Conchords’ song “Inner City Pressure” (which is hilarious).
Here’s some photos from 2007:
They’re probably best viewed here, as a slideshow.
[update]: Ah, I didnt know you could embed a set, nice one Flickr!
Matt has posted another good abstract video of some generative art created in Processing. This is a cloth simulation using the Traer Physics engine (correct me if i’m wrong!).
Here’s another great video by Matt:
Check out the stunning 3D Blush game by Blurst:
It’s a beautiful Unity game where you play a jellyfish that collects eggs. There’s a number of enemies you need to lash with your tentacles, with some great effects when they die. Check out the sea dragon for a good example.
Blurst also have a number of other good games. I quite like Minotaur China Shop.
I’m really impressed with what Unity can do. I’ve got to get a copy soon!
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