I wrote a nice, fun review of Panic’s excellent new app for The Industry. You should read it.
Not sure if this is a new page or just something I’ve not seen before.
Useful, though. Especially liked the file type search.
The more you know.
I started playing Antichamber last night with a friend. It’s quite possibly the most mind-expanding experience I’ve had since I played Portal for the first time.
Whilst infuriating and difficult at times, the game itself isn’t the challenge presented. The mind of the player is the challenge; your brain must be wired a certain way in order to complete the game.
Absolutely amazing. I can’t wait to finish it.
From its Steam Store page:
Antichamber is a mind-bending psychological exploration game where nothing can be taken for granted. Discover an Escher-like world where hallways wrap around upon each other, spaces reconfigure themselves, and accomplishing the impossible may just be the only way forward.
Several years in the making, Antichamber received over 25 awards and honors throughout its development, in major competitions including the Independent Games Festival, the PAX10, IndieCade and Make Something Unreal.
This quote from Rock, Paper, Shotgun nails it:
“Even as the developer told me what the game was doing to mess with my brain while I was playing it, it still succeeded in messing with my brain.”
Adam Haworth:
I have an infatuation with statistics and love watching readers clock in. As I wrote last week, this can be pretty soul destroying when there are so few people clock in. And that’s why you need to stop watching. If you don’t care, it won’t affect you.
Smart words written on a pretty great website.
For once, a Verge review has the balls to give a product a 3.5/10 score. The video review is (as usual) the best part of this one.
Looks like my initial impressions of the Ouya were spot on: a pretty “cool” device, but only really relevant for developers and nerds. Looks very half-baked. Not for me.
Give me a cheap Steam Box over this any day.
Whilst I’m linking to Pod Geek, here’s another great tip for any aspiring podcasters out there. Being able to record from any audio source on OS X has a ton of handy uses.
Here’s an incredibly useful tip for anyone who deals with audio devices on Macs regularly. This will help me in my studio, recording with a USB microphone as well as an SM58 connected through an interface.
Follow these when you’re creating something (pretty much anything) and you’ll be set. My favourite is the fifth.
Speaking of Facebook Home, it’s interesting that Andy Rubin, until recently head of Android at Google (with a “not amicable” departure?), is more active on Facebook than Google+.
I wonder what Google thinks about Facebook’s announcement today. And did Rubin know anything about it?
I’d seriously like to give this a go.
Replacing the Facebook part of Facebook Home with Twitter would definitely appeal to me more, though.
And how is Facebook going to launch something like this on iOS?
Interesting turnaround in policy. (Click the image to enlarge.)