Just in case that you missed this app: don’t miss this app! It’s the newest artistic approach from Björk, who decided to walk new ways once again. Not only musical, but also in the format of choice: The new album “Biophilia” comes as a whole iOS app (so iPhone, iPod and iPad). It tells a story about the universe, the creation of it and is very strange and unique. The app itself is something like a 3d-browsable small universe, where you can visit stars and planets that represent the single tracks from the album.

But there is more to it! Every track has lots of information like lyrics, background text, a visual music score with lyrics (!) and also a music score of each single track to play along (!!). On top, there will be a special-made mini-game or interactive animation for each single track. The app comes with one initial track for free. All other tracks will be available by in-app purchases. There is the option to pre-order all tracks and mini-games for 7.99 Euro as in-app purchase.

Just in case that you missed this app: don't miss this app! It's the newest artistic approach from Björk, who decided to walk new ways once again. Not only musical, but also in the format of choice: The new album "Biophilia" comes as a whole iOS app (so iPhone, iPod and iPad). It tells ...

The Quote-Unquote blog features interviews with indie-game-developers – almost a must read for everyone. Much of things to learn and explore. For example Adam Atomic says about the polishing of games something, that I think is really well said:

“If prototyping is the process of experiments and accidents and exploration, then polishing is the process of analyzing whether each of those experiments or accidents helped or hindered this particular game. We can visualize a prototype as a 2D sine wave. The crests are areas of the game that stick out in a bad way, that need to be sanded down or chopped off entirely. The troughs are areas of the game that are incomplete or under-explored, and need to be filled in with interesting things. The end result is that instead of a wobbly sine wave, we have a nice smooth surface.”

The Quote-Unquote blog features interviews with indie-game-developers - almost a must read for everyone. Much of things to learn and explore. For example Adam Atomic says about the polishing of games something, that I think is really well said: "If prototyping is the process of experiments and accidents and exploration, then polishing is the process ...

Beautiful videos, directed by XXiiRii. Melancolic, full of sun, colors and sometimes happiness.

Music: Whoa!coder – Getting old sucks

Music: Brian Green – Broken glass park

Music: Little-scale – Visual Confirmation

Music: Pix – Emptyhanded (feat Enoalie)

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Beautiful videos, directed by XXiiRii. Melancolic, full of sun, colors and sometimes happiness. Music: Whoa!coder - Getting old sucks Music: Brian Green - Broken glass park Music: Little-scale - Visual Confirmation Music: Pix - Emptyhanded (feat Enoalie) (via)

Here is the link to a talk from Maxis Creative Director Stone Librande who made one game for his kids every year in the last 15 years. He shows the games, explains his design goals and foremost, the design lessions learned from making this games and playing them with his kids.

A highly recommended talk for people, who want to peek into the art and craft of making games. There are good lessions also for game design veterans, for example, that items could be as important as goals.

Here is the link to a talk from Maxis Creative Director Stone Librande who made one game for his kids every year in the last 15 years. He shows the games, explains his design goals and foremost, the design lessions learned from making this games and playing them with his kids. A highly recommended ...

A new episode of the legendary “Games Cuture Circle” taken from live-footage from Berlin. This show got the topic “Reality” and is all about games and the thing we call “Reality”. It’s about media theory, games, layers of gaming, augmented reality and stuff like that. Enjoy. Here is the permalink to the video-site.

Participants:

• Julian Oliver (Artist)
• Greg Trefry (Game designer)
• Claudia Becker (Media researcher at Vilèm Flusser Archive)
• Kristoffer Gansing (Artistic director of Transmediale)

A new episode of the legendary "Games Cuture Circle" taken from live-footage from Berlin. This show got the topic "Reality" and is all about games and the thing we call "Reality". It's about media theory, games, layers of gaming, augmented reality and stuff like that. Enjoy. Here is the permalink to the video-site. Participants: Julian Oliver ...

There is a new game-developer forum on the net that looks promising: The Super Friendship Club is a forum, dedicated to the art and craft of making games. There are at least game-dev competitions every two month. “Everyone is welcome! Come and make games!” This is the friendly claim, when entering the forum. Sounds like music to my ears. (via)

There is a new game-developer forum on the net that looks promising: The Super Friendship Club is a forum, dedicated to the art and craft of making games. There are at least game-dev competitions every two month. "Everyone is welcome! Come and make games!" This is the friendly claim, when entering the forum. Sounds ...

Digital Tools is still in the Top 20 Wikio UK Gaming Blogcharts. This is the preview of the Charts, that will be released on the 5. July 2011. Unfortunately Digital Tools fell from place 15 to 17. But nevertheless Top 20 after all!

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And here are the charts:

Ranking made by Wikio

Digital Tools is still in the Top 20 Wikio UK Gaming Blogcharts. This is the preview of the Charts, that will be released on the 5. July 2011. Unfortunately Digital Tools fell from place 15 to 17. But nevertheless Top 20 after all! Support this blog, by tweeting content, like it on Facebook or ...