Yousuke Yasui – Silver Lining

Laibach – Final Countdown

I like these music posts, so here’s another one. Laibach is a Slovenian martial industrial band that has been active since 1980 and are known for their cover songs adapted to their own dark totalitarian style. This one from their NATO album has 1994 Yugoslav war themes and 1994 CG to match.

Source: Laibach – Final Countdown – YouTube via the NATO album via their version of 2525 played on Geeknights

Skeleton Hunter

I made another game! For VOGJam 1 the theme was “A Buggy Game,” so I made Skeleton Hunter, a broken little 2D platform game in HTML5. You are the hunter from Skeleton’s Revenge going around defeating skeletons and the necromancer that keeps summoning them. Jump backwards through walls, wrap around the screen, undo deaths by pressing Pause, and utterly pick apart the game. I hope this makes it into Awful Games Done Quick someday.

Google Chrome has gamepad support and is the recommended browser for playing this game. UPDATE: v1.02 has support for gamepads in Firefox and control config for all platforms.

Play at Bakamo Studios Play v1.02 with control config at Bakamo Studios Play at VOG Network

Yes, there is a way to reach the title screen with the hunter. Try escaping boss rooms.

Because I didn't have time to make a controller configuration menu, I basically just allowed for every control scheme at once. Even gamepads are supported if you're using Google Chrome. (Or Firefox in v1.02, which has a controller configuration menu now.

If you do a jump attack facing away from the wall, you can get inside the wall. I knew from the moment the theme was announced that I wanted to do a game with bad collision detection.

The skeleton wasn't even implemented until two days before the deadline. It turned out alright, though.

Holy crap, what happened here? Did that guy walk off the title screen to the right? You broke my game! How could you?

Source: http://hitstun.bakamostudios.com/vogjam/skeletonhunter.htm made from scratch in HTML5 and Javascript using Notepad++, Tiled, GIMP, FamiTracker, Bfxr, and Audacity.

Flyboard Air Test 1

Now this is a hoverboard! Zapata Racing makes those water jetpacks for your feet, and now they’re cranking up the power and making a Flyboard that flies through open air. The Flyboard Air can apparently fly for 10 minutes at up to 93 mph and 10,000 feet. If even half of this is real, I want one last year.

Source: Zapata Racing via TwistedSifter “Holy Crap Someone Actually Built Green Goblin’s Hoverboard”

Prof.Sakamoto

Prof.Sakamoto makes soundtracks to imaginary NES games. He’s nailed the sound of a classic RPG, a space shooter, and couple days ago, a ninja action game. I hope someday he’ll follow in Jake Kaufman’s footsteps and work on an actual game.

Source: Bandcamp via the same epic Spotify Discover Weekly playlist last November that introduced me to Thank You Scientist two tracks earlier

Ohio State Marching Band – Hollywood Blockbusters

The Ohio State University football team has a 20 game winning streak and is still somehow only 4th in the polls. One thing’s for sure, though. We have the Best Damn Band in the Land.

One of these days, I’ll have to dig up some videos from my band days at Westerville North. Band was awesome.

Source: TBDBITL's Hollywood Blockbuster Show With HD Sound – YouTube and HD 1080P OSUMB Video Game Half Time Show PLUS Script Ohio TBDBITL Ohio State vs. Nebraska 10 6 2012 – YouTube

Neon FM

Tokyo Attack came to Matsuricon again and introduced me to  Neon FM, a button-drumming music game with some neat features. If you fail a song, the game drops the difficulty level a little and lets you keep playing. The arcade, iOS, and Android versions all work about the same and even support online multiplayer matches between them. I want to try that sometime but the closest arcade with Neon FM is in the developer’s home town of Baltimore.

I thought Orange Lounge Radio had an interview with the developer, but the wiki had no mention of it. Maybe I've got it mixed up with the Kyle Ward interview in episode 596 where he talks about ReRave's arcade and mobile versions. I'm confused.

Source: Neon FM via Orange Lounge Radio episode 524 (1h59m in) which I had to look up again on the OLR Wiki

Common MythConceptions

Information is Beautiful is here to tell you you’re wrong. This infographic goes over dozens of common misconceptions in an easy-to-read color-coded format. Read it; you might learn something!

Six video posts in a row? Really? You guys seem to like the image posts more, so I'll try to do them more often. Click this to go to the full infographic.

Source: Information is Beautiful via several Tumblr users via Kuroutsubasa; infographic sources Wikipedia

Zeta Gundam montage

UPDATE: Voltan’s video is gone, so I’ve replaced it with another montage from Destroy All Podcasts that seems to include the same clips.

Uh oh, I got too distracted by PAX East, Tetris victories, and Sayonara Umihara Kawase that I almost forgot I have a blog and a good video to post to it. Zeta Gundam is a show about giant fighting robots in space, but people sure hit each other at lot. YouTube user Voltan made a supercut of all the satisfying slaps, punches, and kicks that turn whiny pilots into brave fighters.

Sure, let’s run Kajet’s version too. Why not? 2007 YouTube, go!

Source: Zeta Gundam montage – YouTube and ZETA PUUUUNCH – YouTube

DemizuPosuka

It’s hard to keep up with people who post a lot. This maniac, DemizuPosuka, posts something new to pixiv three times a week. Each one looks like the cover of an indie comic book. I have no idea what most of these are called, even with Google Translate’s help.

Update: Whoa, Columbus’s resident Dr. Mario prodigy Katie provided translations in the Facebook comments. I didn’t expect that! Thank you!

Pretty sure I heard it’s around here somewhere…  (確かこのあたりと聞いたけれども)

I love it when stuff messes with gravity. Reverse gravity is fantasy enough that you'll never see it in real life, but simple enough that you can understand how things interact with it. Patema Inverted plays with reverse gravity non-stop. You should watch it.

Necessary evil and unnecessary conscience (必要悪といらない良心)

There's big cars, and then there's big enough to crush buildings and take a direct hit from the moon. NASA has that one colossal truck that carries rockets from the hangar to the launchpad. I think that's as close as we get.

What? We eating pumpkin again?! (「えっまたカボチャ食べるの」)

Here's a good desktop wallpaper. Animals and monsters, just chillin' and eating dinner. I'm cool with this. If this was a Mystery Dungeon game, that witch girl would have just picked a fight with the entire room.

10pm at an old book shop (古書店の午後十時)

Never under-estimate a pop-up book. Ashens reviewed one called Inside the Personal Computer that has a full desktop PC with a couple moving parts. I'd link to that video, but a link's title text can't have its own links. That would break the Internet. (But on Tumblr, I can link you to that Ashens video.)

Goodbye world (さよなら世界)

You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you? Sometimes things don't end well for DemizuPosuka's subjects. At least this one isn't about to be eaten by a monster.

Source: DemizuPosuka via PixivRss several times, translations from Katie on Facebook

Kazumi Totaka and Minako Hamano – Song of Awakening

30-Day Video Game Music Challenge (Super Hard Mode) Day 12: Music that makes you sad From The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening (GB, 1993)

The moment lasts just long enough to tear your heart out.

Source: YouTube, challenge by OverClocked ReMix I think?, via NintendoCapriSun