If you’re creating a new media site, you will need a multimedia player rather sooner than later. There are many options available, the easiest is embedding something that already exists. For instance, if you want to put a movie on your site, you could go for a YouTube embedded player. If you want more options, even interactivity, you need something more flexible. You could do much worse than picking the JW FLV Player.
More …There aren’t many free RPG games. There are even fewer Flash RPG games and there are almost none actually worth playing. Sonny 2 is different. It combines everything you want in an RPG and mixes it up to a delightful game. It has numbers, but it’s not too deep, so it remains very accessible to players of all types.
More …As you read this post, I will be on my first stop of a 3 week long roadtrip through New England (North East of the USA) and Canada. Usually, I don’t plan too much, but I do like to know my options before boarding the plane. The Lonely Planet and Rough Guides are my preferred paper helpers. But this year, I’ve really found the Internet to be an valuable resource.
More …This week’s independent game is not a Flash game per se, but there is a Flash client to easily play it. “Violet” is the 2008 Interactive Fiction Competition winner and with reason. I have been an interactive fiction fan for a long time, and really appreciate the original ideas that can be found in many of those games. Violet is no different, Jeremy Freese has created a neat little game with an extremely clever and funny interface.
More …A few months ago, a little show-reel by Easyweb.fr made the rounds on the net. It showed that new media doesn’t have to be on the Internet or even on your screen. They use buildings as canvasses. Buildings seem to come to life as bricks move around on the wall and strange creatures lurk behind windows. It’s a young artform, known under several names, like “projection mapping”, “geometric projection” or most often “spatial augmented reality”. Before I start experimenting with it, this post is an overview of what information I could find on the net.
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