Experimental storytelling Sunday! Air Pirates is a game by Cactus, he made with his studio Lo-Fi Minds for e4. It is flash and it will be released next month. The trailer indeed convices by blocky and dirty style, ill colored pixels and music from The Death Set.

A short, but interesting platformer experiment is “Sad Torino Girly Harry” from beef and cow. It was made for the “Poppenkast 3 hours astronaut” competition. Aim was to make a space-game in 3 hours and mention the cast. The game is as confusing as its name - experimental in nature and really worth 3 minutes of playing fun! Get the game here.
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A nice tool for creating font-graphics, derived from classic arcade games is the NFG Arcade Font Maker. You can select from a loooong list of classic-games, from Boulder Dash to Fantasy Zone, Tetris or Wonder Boy. Than you can type in your desired text, and - viola! - magic happens. You can save the text and use it as you wish. (via)

With fifty down I’m awarding myself a few weeks off after this one. Having published at least one artwork a week for over six months now, I’m going to have to drop back into a more irregular schedule from here on (for reasons I probably don’t need to explain).

While 100AbArts is on its mini-hiatus may I extend an invitation to zenbullets.com, where you can follow my other work. Hope to see you there.

• Presentation: WJ-Spots #1
• Speakers: Aliette Guibert, Agnès de Cayeux, Anne Laforet, Anne-Marie Morice, Annick Rivoire, Annie Abrahams, Antoine Schmitt, Bruno Alacoque, Albertine Meunier, Christophe Bruno, Cyrille Thomas, David Guez, David-Olivier Lartigaud, Douglas Edric Stanley, Elisabeth Klimoff, Emmanuel Verges, Eléonore Hellio, Erik Minkkinen, Etienne Cliquet, Fred Forest, Grégoire Courtois aka Troudair, Gregory Chatonski, Isabelle Arvers, Ivan Chabanaud, Jacques Perconte, Jérôme Joy, Jocelyne Quelo, Joelle Bitton, Julie Morel, Lucille Calmel, Margherita Balzerani, Martine Neddam aka Mouchette, Nathalie Magnan, Nicolas Frespech, Nicolas Horber, Nicolas Maigret, Olga Kisseleva, Olivier Auber, Olivier Forest, Olivier Legal & Vincent Voillat et David Georges-François, Peter Sinclair, RYBN, APO33, Systaime, Thierry Théolier aka THTH, Xavier Faltot
• Dates: 27 & 28 May, 2009
• Times: 12:00 - 24:00
• Location: Maison des métallos, Paris
• Site: http://www.wj-s.org/
• Live Stream + archives: Selfworld

I’m posting this quite late, but there are a few hours left in Anne Roquiny’s latest incarnation of WJ-S, a system she designed for audivisually mixing the web, like a DJ, or a VJ, hence « WJ ». At the Maison des métallos in Paris, Anne, along with Anne Laforet and Isabelle Arvers will be mixing the Internet while speakers of various ilk simultaneously discuss the last 15 years of artistic creation on the web.

Since I couldn’t make it up to Paris (train strikes), I’ve instead posted this pre-recorded presentation which will be mixed in with a series of links I was asked to comment. *Note: My presentation starts at 23h20.

Here are the links I discuss (in their order of appearance):

• La machine abstraite
• // user theory
• localhost
• 127.0.0.1/
• WikiWikiWeb
• Am I Hot Or Not?
• // bibliothèque universelle
• Napster
• The Pirate Bay
• // code
• Source Forge
• Google Code
• // standards
• W3C Validator
• A List Apart
• // code | art
• Every Icon
• Turux
• JODI
• Radical Software Group
• // physicalisation
• Aram Bartholl
• // zeitgeist
• We Feel Fine
• Zzzz

Today I found really extraordinary footage on the YouTube account from an artist called Wendy Dunham. It is colorful and slightly cheesy synth-pop stuff, but presented an strange fashion. Before we give it a go, please watch this video firts about an extreme strange architectonical artifact: the Ryugyong Hotel in North Korea.

Interesting, indeed. Now we continue with strange stuff. At least I like all this colors, feedbacks and symmetry stuff.

Wendy also made a robot-video. I posted it on Eggshell-Robotics.

After an insanely busy spring filled with projects I’ll be able to talk about later this year (well, some of them) and the arrival of my daughter (Adda) I am now happily back in business writing graphics code and planning projects for the summer. Here’s a quick custom rendering of Adda wearing mommy’s sunglasses.

Here’s a version rendering the okdeluxe-logo. The renderer is written in Processing, source-code available here.

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Torley made a great review on an old game for the Mac called Cosmic Osmo. Although this game is from 1989 and only features black, white and some grayscale colors, it looks outstanding interesting. The game is a point and click adventure, and got some pretty nice humor. The soundeffects are great as well. You best simply take a look at the video-review from Torley.

Fathom is an absolutely lovely made free flash game, ready to play in your browser. The game is a little bit diffrent from others - read here if you get stuck. It’s made by Adam “Atomic” Saltsman and Danny “B” Baranowsky. They also teamed up at the game Gravity Hook for example.

At least interesting is, that the game took only 10 days to develop, utilizing a self-made flash-framework for 2D-games, called Flixel. It should have some not-so-obvious algorithmic wonders behind the curtain (as you obviously can experience at Fathom) and should see the first public release soon!

Trackmate :: 5 ways to get started from adam kumpf on Vimeo.

The mouse is not all that interesting as an invention. When people first saw mice, in fact, they typically weren’t terribly impressed, and often simply went back to their preferred non-keyboard input, the joystick. But destroy the novelty of the mouse, give it to half the population of the world and wait a couple of decades, and fantastic things start to happen.

See also: the knob, which is basically a simple hack for changing resistance in a circuit.

So, what could happen if we take novel interfaces now and try to accelerate what you do with them? That’s what’s starting to take place with tangible, multi-touch, and augmented interfaces, with the help of shared code tools (OpenFrameworks, Processing, ActionScript), shared libraries and trackers (ReacTIVision, the TUIO protocol, and LusidOSC/Trackmate), and communities like the fantastic NUI Group.

But enough about reading about this stuff and/or working alone. We’re going to try a new experiment in which we get lots of folks building this stuff – experienced users, relatively inexperienced users, your friends – and getting as quickly as possible into the business of actually trying apps, especially for the visual and musical performance stuff that we love.

Now, you may not have folks near you who are comfortable with code or have any idea what the heck we’re talking about. But readers of CDM and fellow hackers will join up on the Internet leading up to and around June 6. We’ve got a nice, fast Internet connection in New York, and we’re setting up some tools to help us share video streams, code we create, and to allow informal text chat.

Here’s how to get involved and join us.

Head to http://hackday.noisepages.com/ for all the details. (If you’re interested in experimenting with in-development noisepages blogs and networking features as you make stuff, you may – ahem – find that registration is open.)

1. Sign up.

NYC: In the New York area, we still have some room at our special New York Internet Week event at New Work City, a coworking space and awesomeness incubator. RSVP for the in-person hackday, see the guest list on Meetup, or if you (or friends) just want to come to the party, let us know that!

Internationally: Most of you live On The Internet, though, so if you’re planning to get involved – or even to get a few friends / local hackers into it – let us know. June 6 is the “official” date, so feel free to use that as an excuse to schedule then, but really any time will work. (I’ll be working on some tests and prototypes for the full week of June 1.)

RSVP around the world

2. Get supplies, do a little planning.

This is a cheap, cheap, easy project. You basically need a surface, a webcam, a printer with paper, a light source, and some objects to track. From there, you can get fancier, which is all the fun.

The two elements that can be key to success are LED lighting strips and a good webcam. I’ve written up more details on the hackday blog on how to get these. (Not sure about shipping outside the US, so feel free to let us know about that in comments.) You can always make your own strip of LEDs and the webcams are easy to find, so you’ve still got time to gear up.

Getting Your Parts for the Tangible Surface Hackday

You’ll also see links to the two Trackmate Instructables that are our muse and inspiration for this project.

3. Hack!

Stay tuned to this site and hackday.noisepages.com for details on shared video, chat, and code, and where to contribute. I’ll also be starting some tests and will blog those, too. But the idea is, we can have effectively a virtual lab that brings together the knowledge around the planet.

The build itself is relatively easy, so the idea is:

• Test: Get something working and tested.
• Design form: See how creative you can be with the housing and tangible objects. Remember, anything you can stick a tracking sticker on can work as an object. So we’ll see what may work for practicality (interfaces that work well for running live visuals and can fit in a backpack) or unusual design (weird objects and housings).
• Design software: It’s also relatively easy to feed data into tools like Processing, Max, VDMX, and the like. So the real challenge of this will be to start experimenting with different tools for which these interfaces are useful.

Really, you can use whatever tools you want – I’m eager to see how different trackers and environments work out. But I’ll have some suggestions leading up to the event in case that’s overwhelming, and I’ll personally be using Processing for prototyping.

June 6 will be the big day and party that brings it together, but if you need to schedule on a diferent day, for it.

I’m really looking forward to this. We’re learning how to do this, but I hope this first experiment will lead to more. Let us know if you’re interested or have any questions or comments.

All the info:

http://hackday.noisepages.com/

http://trackmate.sourceforge.net/ 

Full Event Details (NYC)

(note that ReacTIVision + TUIO will work with the same physical design, too – more on recent updates to their software and the upcoming TUIO2 soon)

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