I am sure, most of you know the blog Offworld, a side project of the famous Boing Boing. It seems, that Offworld is going to rest. Brandon Boyer, the very creator and editor of this blog wrote in his blog, that Offworld was eaten by the major relaunch of Boing Boing itself. He will keep on writing weekly columns for the “Mother Boing”, but Offworld will see no future be updated occasionally.

At the same time Brandon spread rumours, that he will keep on going with indie-games-blogging. He maybe will pop out with some new project. He writes: “there should be no doubt in anyone’s mind that I’m cooking up Something New basically like as I write this, and that there are a lot of exciting things that will go hand-in-hand with it” (via)

Microblog / Portfolio from Connor Clark. Extreme beautiful stuff.

Today the quite visual Launchpad audio contoller from Novation was released. It is customised for the use with Ableton Live and got a certain sci-fi feel. I totally like that music-controllers are getting more and more abstract, distracting the line between making music and playing a game. Read some first hands-on impressions at the Create Digital Music blog.

Grid – Matrix and audio you say? There are more things like this around lately. Check out ToneMatrix, Monome, Inudge or Tenori-On.

I just stumbled across ASCII pOrtal. An “Portal”-inspired ASCII game, but I bet, that Portal inspired ASCII-game would fit much, much more. The 2D-game is a puzzle game, that is available for download on the CymonsGames-site. Via Superlevel I also detected an interview with the creator. Check it out here.

An interesting book about Glitch Art was released. It features works from Kim Cascone, Beflix (who I interviewed once) and Angela Lorenz beside others. Linger within the book at the official site or at Amazon.

I can remember releasing music from Minusbaby several years ago on some of my first own netlabel experiments, (i.e. here and here). His music was always a little bit of extraordinary and just like today never to put into genre-categories. Well, meanwhile I switched from releasing music to developing and writing, but Minusbaby still makes music and releasing it as well.

The latest work “Left” is tight and magic at the same time and from his 8-Bit-People release emerged a “community-driven remix project”. Extravaganza! Creative Commons galore! Best directly head over to the mini-site, enjoy, do, create and share the magic!

Development-speed of the indie-world as a whole is always impressing. Only some months ago, people where like “hey, having more art-games, that would be cool”. And now look at this trailer here. Deep stuff, for sure…

It’s a trailer of “Hazard: The Journey of Life“, a mod made in Unreal Tournament 3. It about life, it’s about choices. I haven’t installed it, more about the inside of this package at Indiegames.