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What could be more exciting than Broken Age creators Double Fine announcing another round of its Amnesia Fortnight game jam? Here’s the easy answer: another round of Amnesia Fortnight where one team has already been chosen to create a new game led by Adventure Time creator Pendleton Ward.

Like last time, the Fortnight — a two-week long jam that’s previously given birth to Double Fine games like Costume Quest, Stacking and Spacebase DF-9 — will be funded by the public via the studio’s just launched Humble Bundle page, and funders will ultimately decide which of the nearly 30 pitches Double Fine will focus on, all of which will be again fully video documented by studio stalwarts 2 Player Productions.

But this year’s twist is that Ward is also pitching four of his own game ideas for the studio to produce, which will also be voted on by the public. Outside his story & design input on the console and mobile Adventure Time games (and Cheque Please, his still forthcoming collaboration with QWOP creator Bennett Foddy), the resulting prototype will be the first original concept he’ll have released in actual game form, and all four pitches are as honestly super hilarious & creatively unbridled as you’d expect.

And so, below he’s given Venus Patrol the extra special horse’s-mouth skinny on (and new doodles for) all four of the concepts — from a stab-happy cupid, to an entire town’s least favorite human-pyramid topper, to the fantastically ambitious zombie thriller he’s wanted to create since high school, which we might as well call right now as totally the one everyone is going to vote for, aren’t they.

Cupid, You Fat Little Scamp

Says Ward: This is a 2D sidescrolling platformer where you play as a fatty little cupid that stabs angry guys in the ass with love arrows because he broke his bow. He probably rolled onto it while he was sleeping and crushed it with his booty.

Everybody’s angry, and cupid’s so bummed out about it. He’s gotta stab everyone with those arrows and make them love somethin’ — at least get them to stop fighting, for sure. Some guys have guns and will be shooting and cupid’s gonna have to dodge those bullets, man. He’s chubby so he can’t fly very well… you’ll have a floaty jump at best.

Cupid’s cute!

Little Pink Best Buds

Says Ward: This one’s a mystery. It’s a first person story adventure with a mechanic similar to the game Façade. You’re dropped into a grassy field surrounded by tiny pink dudes who all want to be your best friend. One of these dudes has a boombox, one has a dog, one has an oversized leg…

You get to choose which one will be your best friend and which ones will be jealouussss… so jealous of wanting to be your best friend that they might hurt you. Watch what you say and play the field, Little Pink Best Buds.

No More McDonalds

Says Ward: This is a zombie game. You play as humans or zombies. Humans focus on using ranged weapons, crafting shelters and hoarding supplies while hiding in small discrete safe-houses. Zombies use beefed up attributes to kick ass, leap between buildings, scream to call other zombies to their location and head-butt down barricades.

I love zombies so much. I want to live in the most perfect zombied out simulation. I want to grappling-hook up buildings as a human survivor in an apocalyptic cityscape wasteland. I want to spraypaint the walls, “Suck my knees, ZOMBIES!” I want it so bad.

I want to build bridges between rooftops. I want to have AI babies in the game that could be equipped with rifles to act as sentries. I want loud sounds to alert nearby NPC zombies. I want to live out my zombie fighting fantasy.

I’m also scared of how large this idea is. I don’t know if it’s realistic to take on this idea. I originally was imagining it as an MMO with simple cartoony graphics, and building the world using satellite photos of San Francisco.

I’m kinda hoping that people don’t vote for this game because it’s the most complicated idea that I have. I’ve been thinking about playing this game since high school, man.

Damnit Jerry

Says Ward: This is a simple puzzle game where you play as a big fat guy named Jerry. The town that Jerry lives in has a King, and the King always wants Jerry to be on top of a human pyramid made up of all the townspeople in the kingdom.

Oh man, the townspeople are hell-of frustrated by this situation. The townspeople say “DAMNIT JERRY!” all the livelong day. But what the King decrees MUST BE SO! The King loves Jerry, he loves him THE BEST!

As you help Jerry climb the human pyramid without toppling it over, there’ll be obstacles. Somebody might offer Jerry a donut and your controls will go CRAZY! Or maybe Jerry’s mother will be in the center of the human pyramid, and she’ll be crying about how proud she is of Jerry, and you have to give her a hug until she stops crying, otherwise it’ll make EVERYBODY START CRYING!

You know, lots of hurdles, man, Jerry has a hard life, but no matter what, the King will always love him more than any other townsperson.

“FUCK YOU JERRY,” say the townspeople. “You’re my favorite, Jerry.” says the King. Jerry smiles.

Visit the Double Fine Amnesia Fortnight site right now to find more information on all the pitches — including more video of the four games above — and donate to get video updates & downloadable prototypes as they are made available. Over-average spenders get access to Ward’s eventual game from the pool above, and a DVD/Blu-ray combo available for people who spend $35 or above.

The post Venus Patrol Presents: The Four Games Pendleton Ward Really Wants To Make with Double Fine appeared first on VENUS PATROL.

“Writing: Good Days/Bad Days” mugs and more are available now, due to many, many, many requests!

Dogeweather. Very weather.

Cartoon producer Fred Seibert posted this fun and informative sixteen-page manual with tips for drawing Finn & Jake from Pendleton Ward's Adventure Time series. Ward is one of the best character designers around! (Via Super Punch)

L’artiste anglais Lex Wilson possède de superbes carnets de dessin, dans lesquels il s’amuse à imaginer des créations typographiques de toute beauté, proposant une véritable impression de 3D. Une sélection est à découvrir dans la suite de l’article en images, sans oublier son projet Moleskine Typography.

Iron Maiden hired a BitTorrent analytics company called Musicmetric to determine where piracy of their music was highest, then scheduled tours of those countries. They made millions touring Central and South America. Iron Maiden LLP has outperformed the UK music sector as a whole and was named one of the "1000 Companies That Inspire Britain" by the London Stock Exchange.

"Having an accurate real time snapshop of key data streams is all about helping inform people's decision making. If you know what drives engagement you can maximize the value of your fan base. Artists could say ‘we're getting pirated here, let's do something about it’, or ‘we're popular here, let's play a show’," said Gregory Mead, CEO and co-founder of the London-based firm.

In the case of Iron Maiden, still a top-drawing band in the U.S. and Europe after thirty years, it noted a surge in traffic in South America. Also, it saw that Brazil, Venezuela, Mexico, Columbia, and Chile were among the top 10 countries with the most Iron Maiden Twitter followers. There was also a huge amount of BitTorrent traffic in South America, particularly in Brazil.

Rather than send in the lawyers, Maiden sent itself in. The band has focused extensively on South American tours in recent years, one of which was filmed for the documentary "Flight 666." After all, fans can't download a concert or t-shirts. The result was massive sellouts. The São Paolo show alone grossed £1.58 million (US$2.58 million) alone.

How Iron Maiden found its worst music pirates -- then went and played for them [Andy Patrizio/Cite World]

(Image: Estadio Saprissa Iron Maiden, a Creative Commons Attribution (2.0) image from adels's photostream)

The British Library has uploaded one million public domain scans from 17th-19th century books to Flickr! They're embarking on an ambitious programme to crowdsource novel uses and navigation tools for the huge corpus. Already, the manifest of image descriptions is available through Github. This is a remarkable, public spirited, archival project, and the British Library is to be loudly applauded for it!

We plan to launch a crowdsourcing application at the beginning of next year, to help describe what the images portray. Our intention is to use this data to train automated classifiers that will run against the whole of the content. The data from this will be as openly licensed as is sensible (given the nature of crowdsourcing) and the code, as always, will be under an open licence.

The manifests of images, with descriptions of the works that they were taken from, are available on github and are also released under a public-domain 'licence'. This set of metadata being on github should indicate that we fully intend people to work with it, to adapt it, and to push back improvements that should help others work with this release.

There are very few datasets of this nature free for any use and by putting it online we hope to stimulate and support research concerning printed illustrations, maps and other material not currently studied. Given that the images are derived from just 65,000 volumes and that the library holds many millions of items.

If you need help or would like to collaborate with us, please contact us on email, or twitter (or me personally, on any technical aspects)

A million first steps

My Neighbor Magritte

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look i’m a hooman hurr durr

Alexandre Farto, a.k.a Vihls, conhecido pelo seu trabalho em que “subtrai” matéria física das paredes para a constução dos seus retratos, se uniu à um mestre da ilustração em larga escala, Pixel Pancho, para criar esse mural que é um tapaço na cara.

A intervenção encomendada pela Underdog foi feita em Lisboa, Portugal.

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O designer italiano Silvio Lorusso começou uma coisa nova que qualquer um poderia ter feito (se já não fez), brincando com a ferramenta “Content-Aware” do Photoshop.

Meses atrás ele tinha feito um Tumblr chamado Content-Aware Typography, no qual ele postava imagens de tipografias icônicas de filmes famosos, capas de discos, e logos publicitários depois de terem passado pela tal ferramenta photoshopica.

A coisa é que, a inovação foi ter usado o Content em textos – coisa antes nunca feita (bom, eu não sei) – por aí. O resultado visual é algo bem louco e decadente. Recomendo fortemente dar uma olhada no Tumblr.

Milos "Sholim" Rajkovic is like a Belgradian anti-war Terry Gilliam, who produces the most remarkable surreal animations made from decomposed heads -- authority figures like generals and ranking clerics are a favorite -- filled with weird gears, fleshy pulsing puckers, crazy clocks, tiny frantic people, and more. I could watch this stuff all day long.

His Youtube channel is fun (the little squeaky noises add a surprising amount to the animation), but really, this is animation whose native format is the GIF, so be sure you check out his Tumblr.

He's pretty articulate, too, despite the language barrier: "its irresponsible to leave for future generations internet full of cute animals."

(via JWZ)

Skinner Box Head

Monday

Steve Vistaunet's Pinterest is a treasure-trove of photos of exuberant cassette spine designs from the gilded age of the mix-tape, ranging from the hand-drawn to early desktop publishing experiments: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (via Kadrey)

Love that the beginning of theCoin product video was filmed at Poketo. Also, cool (1st world problem) product.

We just got a terrific update from the talented Vhils.  Check out some of his latest works around the world in 2013:

Paris, France
 

Rabo de Peixe, São Miguel island, Azores, Portugal

Rio de Janeiro, Morro da Providência – the city’s oldest favela

Tudela, Spain

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Own a Vhils original! The following two pieces were celebrated in our 10 Years of Wooster Collective exhibition this past summer.  Click on the image to be redirected to Jonathan Levine Gallery's website for more info on availability and purchasing.

Para ver é só acreditar que está lá.

Kjell Sandved nasceu em 1922 na Noruega. Ele se especializou em fotografar a fauna e a flora, e passou grande parte de sua vida viajando e fazendo da natureza o seu caça-palavras. Ele é conhecido pelo seu Butterfly Alphabet, que virou até livro.

Em 1960, ele foi até o Museu Nacional de História Natural do Instituto Smithsonian para realizar pesquisas sobre comportamento animal.Um dia ele encontrou dentro de uma caixa de charutos antiga, uma borboleta que continha em sua asa a letra F, absolutamente legível . Ele ficou tão impressionado com a perfeição da forma que perguntou se poderia encontrar outras letras do alfabeto em outras asas por aí.

E aí saiu pelo mundo em busca do resto do alfabeto.

Mais no site.

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Guillermo Del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities is a new, huge, beautiful look at his notebooks, scrapbooks and sketches. Flavorwire has a bunch of excerpts from the book that are quite fetching and wonderfully gruesome. Some of my favorites are below.

Guillermo del Toro Cabinet of Curiosities: My Notebooks, Collections, and Other Obsessions (via Kadrey)