Beautiful bit of PaperVision

Quickly becoming the high-tech medium of choice, this simple working example shows 3D movement and live re-skinning in a selected area by taking a tree through the four seasons.

All viewable in Flash 8 or 9. Skills.


[Click and drag to spin the tree]

Games that repeat well

There are so many flash games on the internet, but very few of them are worth playing twice. Here is a roundup of ones I can't get enough of:



Onslaught is even more fun than it looks in a great 'play ti while you're doing some else' kind of way. Set up defense turrets to protect your base, kill ever increasing amounts of bad guys for cash, which you spend on more turrets! Although there are a lot of tower defense games out there, the combo feature in this one makes the cream of the crop.



Nanaca Crash is one of the most addictive games I've ever played, and I don't really know why. It's pure luck and you don't really interact with it at all but despite that it's as awesome as teleporting girls on bicycles can be, which is a lot. Again the sporadic ultra combos keep you interested. I believe the game is based on a Japanense animated porn series, but I'm willing to let that slide the triumphant sound of "kuuuuuaaaoooiiieee!!!" you get when you succesfullly twat the guy into the air with your two-wheeled death machine.


Last one is this game. I have no idea what it's called because it's all in Japanese but the premise of the game is to lob furniture at soem old lady's house to furnish it. Timing, balance and a well crafted physics engine make this game a technical joy, as well as pretty fun when you accidently hit a load bearing wall with a fridge and knock her whole house down!

"I Want You To Want Me"

"I Want You to Want Me" is an interactive art project built from data mined from various dating sites, organizing into a heart-achingly beautiful touch screen presentation where each person is represented as a balloon. It was one of the pieces at MoMA's "Design and the Elastic Mind" show.

Enjoy!!

Crack an Egg on your tits and win!

The Saatchi Gallery has begin a digital campaign based around "Artist Generated Content". If you've got some work you want to share you can stick it up and have it voted into the gallery if it's deemed good enough by whomever is browsing the site.

This piece is March's winner. It's OK I guess, a bit too Sarah Lucas for me to have given it many marks, although perhaps people were just voting for the description that went along with it:

"I enjoy making people laugh, but more than ever I like making people think too. I hope this piece evokes some kind of humorous and yet thoughtful feeling about breakfast in bed. My work is sometimes playful, and by playful I mean I play on the edge of what may start to produce mixed feelings. However, I never intend on offending the viewer, my aim is to go beyond the image creating a story and a thoughtful atmosphere."

Inspired.