Infovore : tag : comic

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March
2010

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(tags: comic games play sad )

29
January
2010

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Tagged as:
abstract, clothes, comic, diy, games, granufacture, hermitgames, indie, knitting, leavehome, marketplace, mars, recycling, rover, sad, shooter, space, wool, xbox, xbox360, xkcd, xna.

xkcd – Spirit

"Maybe if I do a good enough job, they'll let me come home." Jesus, this is not far from making me tear up. I really need to do something about my sympathy-for-small-robots thing.

(tags: xkcd comic mars space rover sad )
The Best Xbox Indie Games Releases 2009

If you're anything like me, you probably never go near the "Indie Games" tab on Live marketplace. Which is a shame: there's some great stuff amongst all the chaff there. This post points to some good stuff from last year; Leave Home is cracking, as is "I maed a gam3…" (don't be put off by the title).

(tags: xbox xna marketplace indie games )
hermitgames – games – leave home

"Abstract shooter with dynamic difficulty and metaphorical explosions. Fixed length game session. Score points. Increase difficulty. Split shots. Leave Home…" 240MSP, for your Xbox 360, and it's out now. That's, like £1.50 or something. It's bloody marvellous; great soundtrack, tough difficulty, lovely use of the analogue trigger, super-pretty in high-def. No excuse not to buy it, really.

(tags: games indie xbox360 leavehome hermitgames abstract shooter )
Reknit – January: Sweater = Scarf

"You send an old sweater to my mom. She unravels it… and knits you a scarf." This is brilliant.

(tags: knitting recycling clothes diy wool granufacture )

29
January
2009

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alternatereality, arg, business, comic, corporateculture, system:filetype:gif, system:media:image, toothpastefordinner, webcomic.

alternate-reality-report.gif (GIF Image, 600×347 pixels)

"Oh, that's because it's an alternate reality report…"

(tags: business arg comic corporateculture toothpastefordinner webcomic alternatereality system:filetype:gif system:media:image )

04
October
2008

Links

Tagged as:
accelerometer, comic, comics, cover, design, dexter, digital, ebook, illustration, instrument, iphone, labels, magazine, music, panmacmillan, parody, pastiche, pharmacy, phonogram, picador, poison, print, printing, publishing, software, spatial, typography, writing.

Vintage Poison Labels – Spookshows.com

That they are. Got to love the type on these.

(tags: typography poison printing labels pharmacy illustration )
Cosmovox – a Musical Instrument for the iPhone and iPod touch

"Cosmovox is a unique and innovative musical instrument for the iPhone and iPod touch." Nearly a theremin. Nearly.

(tags: software iphone music instrument accelerometer spatial )
thedigitalist.net » lifting the veil – will you take a peek?

"Tim, or perhaps T.J. (we were at the pudding stage), began talking about the experience of editing Cliffhanger (the edition we were going to print), and about some of the material that had to be changed or cast away – characters’ names, a lesbian sex scene, the ending itself – and we wondered whether, in a born-digital text, these sloughed-off palimpsests acquired an existence of their own, beyond the shadows of an HFS hard drive; in a library run by Veet Voojagig, perhaps." Picador publish both the final version of the book in print – and the urtext as a separate digital product. Fun.

(tags: publishing writing picador panmacmillan ebook digital )
The Singles Club (preview) – Phonogram

"The time comes again. Here’s the first five pages from the first issues of PHONOGRAM: THE SINGLES CLUB. Not only that, but we include seven sample B-side pages, plus a little introduction about what they’re all about, like." Looking jolly good, and am rather excited by the B-sides.

(tags: phonogram comics music comic )
Dexter Gets His Own Newsstand

Wonderful pastiches of popular US newstand titles to promote the new season of Dexter. The New Yorker pastiche is particularly superb.

(tags: design print publishing magazine cover parody pastiche dexter )

30
September
2008

Links

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altitude, author, background, calvino, comic, design, designer, experimental, flash, gameplay, games, lighting, mechanics, narrative, photography, play, rules, rulesets, scale, science, space, stevegaynor, strobist, studio, technique, tutorial, visualisation, xkcd.

Zack Arias – Atlanta based editorial music photographer » White Seamless Tutorial :: Part 1 :: Gear & Space

"If I had but one backdrop to use for portraiture I would choose a simple roll of white seamless paper. With one roll of paper you can create many options. For the rest of the week I’m going to break it down for you. We are going to look at getting it to pop to pure white, making it various shades of grey, getting it to go black, gelling it to any color in the rainbow, and doing very easy and quick changes in post production to further the visual options available to us when using such a simple background." Fantastic tutorial.

(tags: tutorial technique lighting strobist photography background studio )
Ludomancy » Sense of Wonder Night

"Moon Stories, a collection of my latest three experiments, got selected to be presented at the Tokyo Game Show during the Sense of Wonder Night, the japanese version of the Experimental Gameplay Sessions." Beautiful, notably "I wish I were the Moon"

(tags: games play calvino narrative experimental gameplay flash )
Fullbright: On Invisibility

"In a strange way then, the designer of a video game is himself present as an entity within the work: as the "computer"– the sum of the mechanics with which the player interacts." Fantastic piece from Steve Gaynor, which touches on some notions of the death of the designer – namely, that the designer *is* inherently present in games; they embody themselves in mechanics, and games that downplay logical mechanics that players can reverse-engineer do themselves a disservice.

(tags: games design play mechanics rules rulesets stevegaynor designer author )
xkcd – A Webcomic – Height

I don't normally link to XKCD, simply because it would become repetitive… but "Height" is really lovely.

(tags: science visualisation comic xkcd scale space altitude )

02
September
2005

With customary aplomb, Achewood tackles the accessibility issue. Sometimes, you just can’t make the web accessible for all.

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