Casual Friday: eBoy’s FixPix Delights
It’s almost not even a game, or maybe it’s just an app where you play around with art using an accelerometer.
Whatever.
It’s a fun and totally dazzlingly way to experience isometric pixel art.
Play the demo here, and possibly buy it for your respective iDevice. It’s kind of like paying two dollars for 100 digital prints of eBoy’s art that you can manipulate.
Prtty fun.
- Kyle
Dino Run Coming to iPhone
Dino Run is an absolutely fantastic flash game from pixel wizards, PixelJam Games. The game has been a flash staple for a couple of years now and is currently “slowly, but steadily” in development for the iPhone.
According to PixelJam’s Miles Tilmann “[they] have a lot of the engine worked out, but not a lot of the graphics just yet. Spiralstorm Studios [is] doing the actual code for the game, and [they’re] providing graphics and design.”
This is incredibly exciting as I really loved playing Dino Run in browser so I think an iPhone OS conversion is just so perfect.
via Slide To Play
Good Game Get! Kometen
Kometen’s real charm lies not in in its beautiful water colored visuals, nor its superbly crafted and catchy background music. While both are charming in their own right, they’re really not the defining points when it comes to the iPhone game’s magic.
Kometen rules because it engages us in such a simple way with non-linear goals that promote the joy of flying through space, attaching our comet to the planetary pulls of Issac Newton’s famous law, and engaging with nothing but inanimate objects and isolation.
We naturally find it exhilarating to fly through space (the notion at least), collect things, and discover new places. All of this is possible in Kometen and no one is telling you what to do, how long you have to do it, and the consequences for not doing anything but fly around aimlessly so are non-existent.
Kometen confirms why we play games.
To escape.
Pixel Tilting: The Great, Interactive, and Illusion Inducing World of eBoy’s iPhone Debut, FixPix
Tilting a screen to reveal something or to change angles in a virtual world isn’t new, but it’s about to be released as something really stylish and effectively fun.
Enter extra cool pixel artist, eBoy and his eclectic low resolution, high color, and sharp output of a vision for art. As a pioneer of the pixel art genre he has more than a knack for his craft and now he is pushing pixels further with some interactive upgrades to his art.
Teaming up with with German app reviewers gone app developers, eBoy and Delicious Toys have created FixPix.
Utilizing multiple layered artworks, you must tilt to fix disoriented pictures and continue on to the next one. The multi-layered meticulously detailed works may seem easy at first, but according to Filip Visnjic’s preview; the levels become harder to match up perfectly as they become increasingly intricate.
A title on the horizon, the interactive art game isn’t yet available on the App Store, but should be soon, and I’m stoked to play.
Erik Svedäng and Niklas Åkerblad are almost ready to launch (after App Store approval) one of the neatest iPhone games I’ve laid eyes on.
The water color visuals are just too awesome!
Kometon is described by Erik as a “game [that] is about exploring space to find art, while at the same time learning how to fly around in a graceful way.” He also notes how no scoring system is in place and the player will be their own judge of progress in the game.
The gameplay looks as if it’s gravity based with the player revolving around the planets and switching to different pulls while collecting art.
The game’ll be out soon and I’ll be sure to pick it up and give you a full recommendation.