2009 July 27 Archive at iestyn.net

Daily Archive for July 27th, 2009

F.A.S.T – iPhone game

Published on July 27, 2009 in 3d, f.a.s.t, game, iphone and sgn. 1 Comment Tags: 3d, f.a.s.t, game, iphone, sgn.

F.A.S.T (Fleet Air Superiority Training) is a dogfighting game for the iPhone that I downloaded a few weeks back. It’s got some pretty good visuals for an iPhone game, and the controls seem to work reasonably well, using the accelerometer for movement.

However, I’m really really bad at it, and regardless of how many times I play it, I just can’t seem to stop getting blown to smithereens by enemies missiles. God alone knows how you’re ever meant to get close enough to fire the cannon.

Ah well, it does seem like a good game, if only I could get past the 3rd level. I’d say this is mainly due to my incompetence, rather than bad game design or controls

It’s currently on the appstore for only £1.19 – definitely worth it if you like this genre.

TechCrunch reports it’s earned $1,000,000 in the first 6 weeks. Impressive going, SGN!

Build Your Own Paper Robots

Published on July 27, 2009 in books, papercraft and robots. 1 Comment Tags: books, papercraft, robots.

As soon I saw this I knew I had to get it

The book comes with a CD-ROM containing PSDs and PDFs of 12 different robots, and 2 scenes. You can edit the PSDs to create your own colour schemes, and obviously print to larger paper should you want to create some larger robots.

I can see potential for making some of these and adding some amusing electronics to them. Will I ever have time to actually do this? Who knows. I’d certainly like to, but what with setting up my own company, I haven’t got much spare time at the moment.

I bought mine from Amazon.

If you don’t want to spend money, then wander over to Paperkraft. There’s a ton of great papercraft models to be built, including a number of robots.

(Via BoingBoing).