I’ve been ignoring the internet for almost two weeks now and only done something online if it was really necessary. It has been great.
Now the good news: Me and Raj started a studio together named Pico and we are already available for work. This is one of the most exciting things this year for me.
Digest, a new way to microblogIn recent years services like tumblr have become extremely popular due to their ease of use and management, something I take for granted with my busy schedules. However. As a designer Tumblr is seen as either a technical challenge or rather limiting. Enter Digest.
Digest is a new platform I’m working on in my spare time. It takes the micro blogging greatness of tumblr, adds a dollop of a wordpress-like theme engine and a sprinkle of optimisation to create a micro blogging service on aesthetic enhancing roids!
I will be publishing more information and teasers here over the next few weeks. Digest will be self hosted by its users and 100% free.
Well, I’m excited. Tim always makes quality stuff.
Do you remember my old post on game development where I was researching game development books etc? Well, I found something.
Back in April (made an appearance on GitHub on the 22nd) Francesco Cottone released a game development framework called Akihabara. Akihabara is based on Francesco’s own scripts (good ol’ javascript) for creating environments, enemies, items et cetera, and together with the canvas tag in HTML5 you’ve got a retro game.
Why is this so awesome then? I’d like to think that I know games and the web; this is the merging of the two, so the learning curve isn’t that high. When will I make something with it? This fall. I will be using it in a school project with a friend of mine, and we’ve got a lot of fun ideas for games and we hope to incorporate the majority of them into a couple of games.
But now? Back to the sketchpad for some more game ideas.
Red Sweater Software just updated their publishing software MarsEdit to a fancy 3.0 and I’m writing this entry in it. A bit more stable when it comes to Tumblr these days as well as a bunch of new features:
A lot of posts about apps recently, but don’t blame me or anyone else.
Transmit 4 is out. I helped test this while it was under development and it is one of the best FTP apps that I have used. A great app for only $34, so go buy it.
It’s a $19 upgrade for those who bought Transmit 3.
iStat Menus 3 - It’s a nice update. No longer free, but hard to complain with such good software.
Great software. Too bad it crashed my SystemUIServer after 5 minutes.
Those who disapprove of bad language or the inappropriate use of the term (the pejorative one) for a specific sexual orientation et cetera should not read this conversation.
Thankfully, I never heard from him again.
One of my “heroes”, Shaun Inman, just updated his site. Well, he added a new subdirectory which functions as a welcoming message and a job description; Mint, Fever, Shortwave, Horror Vacui & Mimeo* can be seen above. Also, nice acoustic music over at Youtube; Awesome pixel creations at Dribble.
* Mimeoverse: Mimeo and the Kleptopus King
The image says it all: My font doesn’t have a nice name or a reasonable price-tag. It can’t be free, sorry, but it can’t cost $99 either. It has 654 characters, all Latin and 80% Cyrillic, as of now and it took a while to get there.
Added 5 minutes after posting: The person who comes up with the name will get the font for free.
Got suggestions? Great! Send an email to oscar + @ + oscarismy.name or reply with Twitter to @queo.
Did you know this? I did, because it’s not available here.
Here’s the trailer for The Incident, the upcoming iPhone game by Matt Comi and Neven Mrgan. Hit http://theincidentapp.com and sign up to be notified when the game is available in the App Store.
Click to play the trailer!
What’s up with all the awesome pixelated games being developed these days? Not a bad thing though.
Some awesome themes by some cool peeps. Especially liking Matthew’s and Peter’s themes. The themes with a blue ribbon are premium themes.
Go buy if you want to add some beauty to your tumblog.
About a week ago I was indirectly introduced to Flixel after Harry released a few Flixel accessories. But Flixel is Flash, and Flash can sometimes be clunky; what I want is stability and speed. That means OpenGL and other cool stuff. Flixel is currently only playable on computers and not on your iPhone/iPod/iPad, a platform that I’d really want to develop for.
So far, I have only dabbled in Xcode and made dummy apps. If I want to get somewhere, I know that I will have to read some books.
What books should I read?
Back in January I revamped my website using Textpattern as the core and I used it as a blog as well. Up until now that is. I closed down that blog, but not my Textpattern installation, after I decided that I love Tumblr too much to be able to leave it.
Tumblr will now be my only way of blogging (kinda) and I am proud of saying this:
My Textpattern installation will now work like a great and fast way of keeping track of my main site and its subdirectories, e.g. /about, and I have no intention of leaving it just because I’m not using it for a blog.
A thumb up to you, Tumblr.
This is what I’ve been tinkering with for about a week now. It works well on both print and display from what I’ve seen.
These are just the basic characters, but there are hundreds of these; Latin is pretty much completed and I just started with the Cyrillic ones.
