And a big “thank you” to one of the most leading and important netlabels we had, when we talk about ambient and experimental type of music. Autoplate was run from 2001 to 2008 and was a sublabel of the still active Thinner-netlabel. Sven Swift did an interview with Sebastian Redenz on Phlow-Magazine about the development of the label and the reason, why they put it down:

Autoplate was always on a much smaller scale compared to Thinner, the label didn’t organize any live shows and the people never left much feedback. Unsurprisingly though cause there’re indeed many excellent Netlabels releasing ambient and experimental music. So we decided to fade the project out with a final release and to concentrate on Thinner, which just has a bigger audience and potential and thus is more interesting for all of us.
(…) Recently I’ve came along a statement which said that Netlabels gave a new bloom to ambient and experimental music in general. I couldn’t agree more!

They released a fine “closing compilation” (.zip) with the best tracks from the Autoplate-years.

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Want pixel? No problem. Check out the Pixelstyle-blog, a project run by Enso. He is a 19 year old illustration student. The pixelstyle-blog is an ongoing exploration, of everything pixed-styled, that is there – showing various techniques. If you want to fall into the world of pixel – start here.

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Chipmusic fans – listen up. 8-bit FM is a streaming radio station, that delivers fine chipmusic and chiptunes from all over the world. The radio station is combined with asmall event calendar and a twitter stream. Great. A neat, 2009-styled website.
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Ooookay (insert breath sound here), if you like Twitter and sounds, than things can finally go “social”. Whether this is useful or not, it’s an exploration of a new medium: Tweet-A-Sound is basically a MAX/MSP-based sound generator for your local machine. You can play with it and then send a soundpreset in text-form to a Twitter-account. MAX/MSP users will be very familiar with this kind of format. Then you can receive data from your friends or other Twitter-people, feed that data into your Tweet-a-Sound application and play the sound from there. Nothing revolutionary. Or maybe perhaps? Recently only available for Mac-users.

Douglas Edric Stanley worked on a nice twitter “tool”. Zzzz grabs twitter-messages and show them in a nice and friendly “tree-environment”. Unfortunately you cannot add your own account or a custom keyword-search. At the moment, all that the thing shows are tweet-messages, that use “zzz” or “zzzz”. But in the end, exploring all the “zzzz” is far more interesting, than another twitter-application. Read detailed about the app at Douglas Stanleys blog. (via)

A quick announcement. NES-Emulator FCEUX got a new feature, that let you play the old games with a control, similar to Kirby on the Nintendo DS. Look at the video, to get the concept. I think it is also called ‘rainbow riding’. This is so beautiful. Just recently, we had announced the moving-blocks feature of FCEUX. (via)

Now this is a hard one. Because is it so radical. Nintendo continues with its most radical game design so far – the Wario Ware (please correct me on that one, if you know it better). It is a collection of mini, or better micro-games, that loosely connect into one big play. Or better playability.

The next thing, that can be seen on the horizon already, is WarioWare: Made in Ore. The game will be basically the same as Wario Ware, but multiplied with one more measure of new radical creation of content. Because, the user will be able to add own mini-games to the Wario Ware channel. The microgames can be created and customized with the Nintendo hardware and the editors, that come along. Nintendo is planning make some sort of online-shop named “Game Shop Ninte” available, where you can upload own levels, as well as download, share and remix things other users made. Also the best levels of the month should be picked. Now say what?

Enough theory. Here is some evidence.

Absolutely at the roots of Super Mario, with that spacial dash of microgames.

Create graphics and basic animations

Create “Cart Art”

More videos of this i.e. at Offworld.