Ok, guys and girls. Bad Hint is a small experimental game-exploration from Qixen-P design studio with a soundtrack delivered by favorite chip-artist Goto80. And they like it experimental. You are a “little thought” that has to escape the “playful mind”. In order to do so, you can move, jump, pickup objects and use them, using the key A. It’s been a while, since I was confronted with experimental and exploratory gameplay and design as well (the website from the Qixen-People is just as cryptic), but it seems, that I totally suck at this game, not even getting the bright pink star. Any (bad) hints anyone?

This here is an advertisement for the ink and marker-manufacturer Krink. It reminds me, that it has been a long long time, since I worked with “real” colors. The video features real and digital colors as well, made in collaboration with the Megawords-Magazine. Krink itself are somehow obsessive and radical about their products. So, let it drift.

Money is virtual. We all know. This is not virtual, but fictional money. Mark Brooks created this design for a banknote form the Galactic Empire (Star Wars). He says about his work in the context of Star Wars fan art:

There’s a lot of artwork out there most as posters, lithographs or prints so I wanted to do something different. While watching The original Star Wars I realized that talk of money is thrown around quite a lot but you never actually see it (other than Han flipping the bartender a coin after shooting Greedo). I thought it would be cool to design a piece of Imperial currency as I saw it. I designed it mostly after American money but used some European influences as well.

What is more to say? It’s simply awesome.

(via 11k2)

More info at Farbrausch.com

Lately I came upon an interesting casual-gaming site, called the “GamesButler“. Well, what is so interesting upon this site? Basically it serves free games like most other similar sites. But the games they have online are more focused on storytelling and graphics, than just pure “casual gameplay” at its core. Not all games there have for exactly this reason a heavy replay-value or are addictive (some are). But if you seek for inspiration or just want to see casual games, that are a little bit different, this is your starting place. Give GamesButler a try.

Recommendation: Search the city on Globe Trotter XL – Gives warm nostalgia.

Screenshot: Some random games.

The release of Cave Story for WiiWare is coming nearer. Rumours tell about April 2009. This game is one of the roots of indiegames, and artwork, atmosphere, story and gameplay – still a benchmark for 2D related games for today. This is a fan-video made by Nakonostudio, worth be watching. Careful, the music is a catchy song. And can be downloaded here.

(via TIGSource)

Polytron, the fresh new company behind Fez, released a series of t-shirts that really rock. This guys know how to create value with unique stuff. Visit the Polyshop 0.1.

Update: The shop is currently down, while Polytron is doing some maintenace.