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Due to recent discussions about pong the randformblog reader may know already about the exhibition pong.mythos and his curator Andreas Lange (see left image on the left, together with manager Dr. Klaus Spieler). However Andreas Lange’s main work (in fact he majored in religious studies) is the (more…)

I know: this link is not very fresh, but still it is worth a post. And it is indeed fresher than the link to its predecessor.
Both are Flash adventure games. The latter featuring an …um someone… inhabitant of an overcrowded planet facing an intergalactic crash. The former even an alien hijacking of a lovely dog…lots of creatures…
or: both are very poetic little treasures with a dreamlike setting and a very good meditative sound track.
Not your cup of tea, these themes? Well better decide for yourself what these games are about…
Created by the Czech studio Amanita Design the games are full of reminiscences to old eastern european illustrations and style. sweet.

Last week the Berlin Air Show ILA closed and we were happy that no plane crashed down on us. The question of why they do this show in such a densely populated spot is apparently not going together with our sense for rational reasoning.

However for the next ILA it seems batman or buckbeak the hippogriff may land in our backyard – as can be learned from the press release I and press release II of the bavarian company ESG or in the article in the daily mail.

From the article in the daily mirror I would say that the thing which apparently flies already around looks more like batman, however from ESG´s press release it seems that they want to call this thing “Gryphon”. However one thing is clear – this thing is not even a WOLPERTINGER!!

As some readers may know, we like the game pong and awkward versions of it. (see also pong.mythos.) Apparently other people share this passion …as e.g. viennese computer science students (called emcgames), who did this great pink pingk pong.
Unfortunately it seems the game is for windows only.
kotaku called pingK an Electric Kool-Aid Acid pong, however this is a strange kind of acid sound in the video … or lets say the truth: i think it is better to switch the sound off.
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The xblocks 3D maze is a fairly straight und unloaded sculpture. I wonder how a video game could work e.g. on Rodins Burgers of Calais :-O: