Over the weekend I built this nifty programmable water printer in Minecraft.
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Minecraft: Programmable Water Printer
HappySmurfday
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Hart Getzen, Author “Echo’s Revenge”
dewaalpr
While there’s no shortage of videogames on the market today, there are very few original novels written specifically for the gamer audience. Aimed at this elusive audience of young male tween and teen readers – and anyone who is familiar with the dynamic and often combative world of online gaming – Echo’s Revenge features a technological creature who has somehow managed to escape its digital origins and manifest itself in the real world.
The brainchild of writer Hart Getzen, the Echo’s Revenge series and website (echohunt.com) are presented under the name Sean Austin, a videogame programmer who is documenting the path of destruction wrought by this virtual shape-shifting monster. The Ultimate Game is the first novel in a series, told from the point of view of young Reggie (14) and Jeremy (11), two brothers who are master gamers in the world of ECHO, a heartless, indestructible, renegade virtual creation. Unfortunately, ECHO’s not the only monster in their life – they also face the unpredictable behavior of their mother’s explosive boyfriend. When life at home gets too rough, the boys decide to run away. Little do they know that the latest iteration of ECHO has escaped the game, and is targeting gamers as part of a nefarious real-life scheme. Parts II and III of the series will be published in 2013 and 2014, with plans to turn ECHO into an actual online combat-style role-playing game.
Getzen, who grew up on the streets of Kabul, is an entertainment professional with a background in both action films and simulation gaming. Behind his action-packed young adult novel is a serious attempt to educate the reader into the STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) frameworks that are likely to shape the world of tomorrow. “The goal was also to get these young gamers into thinking about what goes into building and playing a game – what happens when a group of people get together to create or experience something, and imbue it with their own spirit. What are the political and interpersonal dynamics of that team enterprise?” Forced to rely not only on their gaming skills, but their loyalty, intelligence, and ability to work together, Reggie and Jeremy find that they are more prepared to take on the dangers of the adult world than they realize.
View Link [echohunt.com]
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Choose Your Reading and Pronunciation Adventure – Kickstarter
James Salsman
I’ve been working for decades on a free speech recognition-based game to teach English reading and pronunciation, and this year it is going to happen, thanks to Google’s Summer of Code and the One Laptop Per Child contributors’ program. But to make it really useful (and on as many mobile devices as possible) we need to raise just a little more money. We have secured funding for two of the three other engineers who want to help finish the project, but we still need to money for the third and to collect sufficient exemplar pronunciation recordings and create engaging graphics, animations, and game content to support English learners of all ages and experience levels. Please help!
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Creative-Commons Tabletop RPG On Kickstarter
sage
Dungeon World, a CC-BY RPG, has gone to nearly 300% funding in under a day. It’s a huge win for openness in the tabletop RPG scene.
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Watch Dogs Trailer
Dr. Sideshow
Upcoming Ubisoft videogame, set in a dystopian not-so-far future where networks have taken over your life.
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Audio-only blind-accessible adventure game released on iPhone
dotaaron
BlindSide (previously covered on BoingBoing during development) was crowdfunded on Kickstarter, and is a suvival/horror game that uses the gyros in your iphone to create an immersive graphics-free game experience for both blind and sighted gamers. You just face the direction you want to go, and the world rotates around you. It turns out virtual reality is a bit easier to approach without any graphics. More info here: http://www.blindsidegame.com as well as a second video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltonvtWrdG0
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If you hate your networking pals, then blow them up
gsquirrelgo
For every networking event where you thought, “I could be blasting fools in Warmachine instead of this crap” I whipped up BC Brawlers. A simple tabletop game that pits Business Card against Business Card in a no holds barred nerd fight.
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Bundle in a Box – indie adventure bundle that supports charity
evilcommunist
The Bundle in a Box is a new indie game bundle featuring only adventure games, including a wonderful text adventure (1893: A World’s Fair Mystery) and an exclusive debut (The Sea Will Claim Everything). The bundle also has a feature called the Indie Dev Grant, which will allow the public to choose an indie developer to support. More importantly, the bundle also supports a charity: the Hellenic Centre for Mental Health and Treatment of Child and Family, also known as To Perivolaki (The Little Garden). This is a non-profit that helps children and adolescents with serious psychological problems and that has been hit particularly hard by Greece’s catastrophic austerity policies.
View Link [bundle-in-a-box.com]
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Spaceventure Struggles
jfrisby
Webcomic Kris Straub on the Space Quest series and the Two Guys from Andromeda’s struggling Kickstarter campaign:
“Of the Space Quest series though, the pinnacle was Space Quest IV. Look at all the nourishment it contained for a growing Kris! A plot making heavy use of time travel! Over-the-top meta humor I had never encountered before that! Roger Wilco knows where he is by looking up at the status bar, for Chrissakes. And the smell and taste interface itself was a goof on Sierra’s new UI. The design of the time pod was reminiscent of the Workbee from Star Trek! How I pored over those technical manuals as a child! (You can see the same side vents in some of Starslip’s scuttlepods.)
“Via a mutual friend, I actually got in touch with the Two Guys from Andromeda, Mark and Scott, a few days ago. We talked about their Kickstarter [www.tgakick.com] (which I just did some art for) and just riffed for an hour.
“All I could think was that 13-year-old Kris would have wanted to live to see this day. It’s too bad he died at age 20, after a long battle with youth.
“I was very excited to learn that the Two Guys were back in the saddle and I hope it works out for them. I hadn’t really thought about what an impact those games had on me until I heard about the potential for another one.”
http://starslip.com/2012/05/25/space-quest-memories/
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Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock Dice on KickStarter
eltorothedeep
We’ve all heard Dr. Sheldon Cooper explain the rules of the game Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock from creator Sam Kass. Now you can play an enhanced version of the game with specially designed, laser etched, and painted dice. Making life’s geeky decisions like who has the better imaginary super-power are suddenly more geeky and more fun. BAZINGA!
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Turning the classic Snake Game into a Location-Based Exergame
vrml
The HCI Lab (http://hcilab.uniud.it ) of the University of Udine has turned the classic Snake game into a location-based exergame (LocoSnake) to encourage walking.
First, LocoSnake detects players’ position and retrieves the satellite photograph of the area that will be used as a playing field. Then, the player controls the Snake in the game by walking in the real-world, using GPS.
LocoSnake will be presented at the PERSUASIVE 2012 Conference in Sweden, and a technical paper with a detailed user evaluation of the exergame is available at this link: http://hcilab.uniud.it/publications/2012-02.htmlView Link [youtube.com]
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Brain Pong
mccrum
I’m part of a hackerspace in Manhattan who has finally combined the classic game of Pong and EEG brainwaves to allow the movement of a player’s paddle via concentration. Then we decided to kick it up a notch and are in the process of building a version 6′ by 8′ tall.
We’ll be debuting it at the Figment festival here in town on Governor’s Island this summer as well as Maker Faire later on in the fall.
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Count to a Billion iPhone Arcade Game
simio
My brother and I have been working on this game for 6 months and it’s now ready to be shown to the public.
Count to a Billion: An extreme arcade finger-challenge where you try and get 1 billion points in 90 seconds by multi-touching and swiping as fast as you can.
But watch out! Imprecise taps lead to errors, which deduct from your score multiplier. Play perfectly without errors and you’ll get “On Fire!” which multiplies your score multiplier!
Video link attached. Here’s the splash website we built for the game. You can actually play the game a little bit on the website
Thanks a lot, hope you guys like it.
Pedro and Mario WunderlichView Link [youtu.be]
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DuckTwist – Ninja Duck Trailer
ducktwist
A new trailer for DuckTwist!
All the details are available on the game’s site: http://www.ducktwist.comView Link [youtube.com]
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Carmageddon Reincarnation kickstarter underway
maxdamage
One of the greatest video games of all time is well under way to having a sequel created by the original dev team now that they have access to the brand again. They are even going to polish up and make the original available on GOG. Right now it looks like they are going to make their goal to make the sequel but they have a reach goal in mind to port the game to Linux and Mac.
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Divergent Games Presents Hiro Fodder: A Blue Hope
rdellafave
Robert DellaFave, lead developer of Divergent Games, is kickstart-ing his newest project Hiro Fodder: A Blue Hope. A late 16-bit inspired RPG that acts as both a love letter to the games of yore and a mockery of their restrictions, Hiro Fodder tells the story of a solitary blue slime and his quest for revenge against one-note heroes who slaughter his kind in an attempt to level past the starting zone.
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Circuitbend Gameboy Classic
Gijs
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MASHUP ON KICKSTARTER: Comics + Games = New ‘Gamified’ experimental comics reader app
Kneon
Steampunk web comic Shadowbinders is trying something a little different to stand out from the comiXology crowd.
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Loopy lost his lettuce – iPad / Andriod kids game made from handmade crochet wool objects! Help fund via pozible
faeriegem
I am writing to you to share a project I am currently working on in the hope you will be able to share it with your many readers at boingboing.net.
The project is called “Loopy lost his lettuce” and is an interactive children’s book for the ipad and andriod devices.
The art style of Loopy the snail is designed in the extremely unique and colourful art form called freeform crochet. All objects and creatures have been individually hand-made by myself. Once crafted photos of them are taken in our studio, they are then animated and manipulated on the computer by my partner.
We are currently trying to raise funds via the crowd funding website pozible.com to finish the game. The links to the site with pictures and presentation video which explains the project in detail are below;
http://www.pozible.com/loopylosthislettuce
http://www.crochetcreatures.com
http://www.facebook.com/LoopyLostHisLettuce
We would be extremely excited to work with you on an article or blog post and would be very keen to answer any questions or provide more details, screenshots, etc.
Thank you
Gem
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Amoeboid new app about life on a microscope slide
Miche
Supersute new game app for kids about an amoeba living on a microscope slide. By Beatrice the Biologist. Her fun, art and science filled blog is here: http://www.beatricebiologist.com/ene, arareq
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Turning the Classic Snake Game into a Location-Based Exergame
vrml
The HCI Lab (http://hcilab.uniud.it ) of the University of Udine has turned the classic snake game into a location-based exergame (LocoSnake) to encourage walking.
First, Locosnake detects players’ position and retrieves the satellite photograph of the area that will be used as a playing field. Then, the player controls the Snake in the game by walking in the real-world, using GPS.
LocoSnake will be presented at the PERSUASIVE 2012 Conference in Sweden, and a technical paper with a detailed user evaluation of the exergame is available at this link: http://hcilab.uniud.it/publications/2012-02.htmlView Link [youtu.be]
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A Perfect Storm for Adventure
jfrisby
Tim Schafer & Double Fine Productions have released the first video in their documentary series, covering the production of their massive Kickstarter success, for free (begins after the short sales pitch). It’s a pretty remarkable look at a how they hit on a winning fundraising narrative to raise money (one that isn’t a watch, anyway).
Double Fine have recently been joined by fellow adventure gaming series Space Quest (www.tgakick.com) and Tex Murphy (www.texmurphy.com) in trying to bring back the old school genre.
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Throwdown! A super awesome card game.
asd8605
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3d printing machine
prasanadear
The 3dstuffmaker 3D printer is the first 3D printer of its size that will allow you to create anything that you can think of!
The3dstuffmaker 3D printer is an open source 3D printer that is affordable compared to others on the market at $745 and can print almost anything up to 100x100x100mm. Theoretically the size of a cupcake.
You can share you print ideas or get new printer ideas from thingiverse.com and the 3dstuffmaker can be purchased directly from http://www.3dstuffmaker.com
3D printing is a form of additive manufacturing technology where a three dimensional object is created by laying down successive layers of material. 3D printers are generally faster, more affordable and easier to use than other additive manufacturing technologies. 3D printers offer product developers the ability to print parts and assemblies made of several materials with different mechanical and physical properties in a single build process. Advanced 3D printing technologies yield models that can serve as product prototypes.
There has been large growth in the sale of 3D printers. Additionally, the cost of 3D printers has declined. The technology also finds use in the jewelry, footwear, industrial design, architecture, engineering and construction (AEC), automotive, aerospace, dental and medical industries, education, GIS, civil engineers, etc.
New Scientist plane 3d printer3d printer printing technology print cool making amazing awesome paper 3Dstuffmaker
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Grandma’s haunted quilt
Lolotehe
It’s really a wraith mini, but it needed to be more than that when I painted it.
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