30/09/2009 / News
Just a quick note and apology for the lack of posts in the last few days.
Yesterday, early in the morning, 5.10am, my daughter Mia Katarina Visnjic was born. My wife is quickly making a recovery after 26 hour labor and ...
Squareball is a Arkanoid style arcade action game with simply beatiful minimal interface and cool retro graphics, music and soundFX. It includes 20 stages spread across 5 worlds in this first adventure with a new twist to Arkanoid gameplay. Instead of  shifting ...
26/09/2009 / Java
Created for the Berlin Music Hack Day, held on September 18-20 at Radialsystem V by Ramsey Arnaoot and Robb, Xylobot is a monome controlled Xylophone with a custom Java app that receives midi data from the step sequencer and controls the Arduino over ...
26/09/2009 / Processing
The Snail on the Slope is a generative movie based on a book of the same title by Strugatsky brothers. The novel is set on an unknown planet, where humans have a base from which they are investigating and trying ...
Created as part of last month's Experimental Gameplay Project, Chaim Gingold's MinMe is a response to the theme "bare minimum". Made in 1.5 days, MinMe is a clean, minimal puzzler with 10 levels. The former Spore developer notes that if enough ...
Few weeks ago I caught up with Mills of ustwo to talk about iPhone development. ustwo have been sponsors of CAN for quite a while now but besides them being a 'successful' bunch they are really interesting creative studio. I ...
A quaternion Julia set is a four-dimensional equivalent of the standard two-dimensional fractal. By taking a 3D 'slice' through the 4D space it is possible to visualise a solid fractal.
This quaternion Julia set ray tracer is a port of Keenan ...
23/09/2009 / iPhone
Created by Kenichi Onodera is a range of clock apps for the iPhone created/styled by a number of illustrators/artists from Japan. All apps are free and each one is as wonderful as the other. Artists include: jobin, rocketdesign (Shingo Kikuchi), Kaori ...
23/09/2009 / Mac
Created by Simon Strandgaard, Graphic Designer Toolbox is an alternative graphics editor. Instead of manipulating graphics directly as you do in Photoshop, in GDT you build blocks for bitmap and vector manipulation. Not too dissimilar from Quarz Composer, GDT allows you to ...
In 1963, my dad was looking for a job. Born in England and raised in Africa, he ended up in London after a few years of travel by ship and train. In those pre-pre-Craigslist days, people still searched for employment ...
21/09/2009 / Processing
STOC is a data visualization of the S&P 500 from the NYSE programmed in Processing. Each circle in the visualization represents one of the stocks in the S&P, with characteristics of each visualizing different data points for each. There is ...
Very popular on the interwebs and rightly so is the new game by Edmund McMillen called Time Fkuc. If you haven't tried it yet, make use of this lovely Sunday eve to shift few dimensions in this awesome new platformer + all ...
Am I a hero? is a simple but very enjoyable little platformer created by Japanese developer haruurara. You play a role of a hero who at the request of the king is on a journey to destroy all the enemies ...
18/09/2009 / Inspiration, Objects
Crash Photography is a project by Greg Borenstein, a programmer, musician, hardware hacker, and student at NYU ITP in New York City. Using MatchBox cars and Arduino board, Greg constructed a realtime camera shutter of crash event occurring from two cars ...
Now that we have seen C64 emulator finally make it's way to the AppStore and then quickly removed, you may want to check out the just released ZX Spectrum emulator for the iPhone.
Bundled with 3 games currently and many more ...
18/09/2009 / iPhone
Like most days of my life I am running late; a mixture of a lot on my plate and laziness are usually the contributing factors for these situations I find myself in. People are usually pretty forgiving but trains, not ...
Fozwot is a beautiful tilt and swerve iPhone game adventure through stunningly crafted gothic world created by Lofopi games studio.
You play Fozwot, a punky caterpillar like creature. As you tilt your iPhone or iPod touch, he dynamically twists, turns, stretches ...
17/09/2009 / WebApp
The eBay-Generator is an application that translates data from arbitrary eBay useraccounts into little music pieces. A first prototype - using the South American eBay- clone Mercadolibre - was presented in September 2007. Leading on from this first version comes ...


































