Pixel Dough

Tinyhack: minimalist adventure half the size of a favicon

2011-07-16T10:31:00.000-04:00

Amazing favicon hacks such as Matheiu Henri's Defender of the Favicon made me wonder: just how small could a game go? I'm not much of a coder, but over the weekend I had a go at making an adventure game only 8x8 pixels in size.

It's barely-playable and has all the charm of a malicious lite-brite. But once you've found the sword, shield and the all-important, all-healing pub, you can dash through it in a few minutes. I bet a really great programmer could fit a proper roguelike into the same space!

As it seems more like a 1970s electronic toy than a video game, I also made sure to include the original box, which explains exactly what those meaningless pixels are. (And you can refresh the page for a randomly generated one)

Play Tinyhack

Double Digger

2011-07-15T20:18:00.004-04:00

Ralph Lauren And The Liquify Tool

2011-07-14T20:14:00.001-04:00

PSD has teamed up with IceFlowStudios to give you more insight into what went wrong with the images you see on PSD and how to fix them

By IceFlowStudios

The Magician's Assistant

2011-07-13T20:28:00.001-04:00

Calvin Klein: Red Out

2011-07-12T20:16:00.001-04:00

Leica V-Lux 30

2011-07-11T10:28:00.000-04:00

Leica's V-Lux 30 has a Vario-Elmar 16x zoom 24-384mm-equivalent lens, 1080i AVCHD video recording, a 3' touchscreen display, and integrated GPS. $750 and comes with Adobe Elements 9.

Hasselblad's 200 mmegapixel Camera

2011-07-10T10:26:00.001-04:00

Cost: $45,000

Satellite Imagery reveals 17 lost pyramids in Egypt

2011-07-09T10:19:00.003-04:00

When it comes to discovery, technology has essentially “been there, done that”. Thanks to satellite imagery, there are no more lost islands, and there are very few civilizations that have been untouched by civilization. However, technology played a huge part in uncovering 17 lost pyramids and thousands of ancient tombs, not to mention other structures in an infrared satellite survey of Egypt.
NASA and a University of Alabama at Birmingham Egyptologist Sarah Parcak teamed up to use commercial satellites in order to find mud-brick structures underneath the sands. These satellites were 430 miles up in the air, and they found 1,000 tombs as well as 3,100 settlements. Parcak has stated that there are “there is enough to be excavated for 50 generations to come”.

Glitchbot

2011-07-08T10:13:00.000-04:00

GlitchBot is an imperfect machine built to create imperfections. Glitchbot is a Flickr bot that grabs Creative Commons-licensed images, corrupts them, and re-posts them with attribution and compatible licenses.

http://bitsynthesis.com/glitchbot/

Really the Drop Shadow will fix Everything...

2011-07-07T20:15:00.005-04:00

All Hands

2011-07-06T20:30:00.001-04:00

10 "Handy" Photoshop foul-ups - The folks at the excellent Photoshop Disasters website prepared this freakish gallery of disembodied hands, duplicated & deleted digits, and extra arms.

Floaty Hand

2011-07-05T10:30:00.001-04:00

4th of July Photoshop Fail Roundup

2011-07-04T11:10:00.000-04:00

Credit to: http://www.psdisasters.com/

Go Pro on a Hula Hoop

2011-07-03T10:37:00.001-04:00

It is amazing how small and versatile cameras (and video cameras) have gotten in the last few years. You can really get all sorts of new perspectives on things.

The Digital World meets Real Life

2011-07-02T10:49:00.000-04:00

On a purely visual level, none of these shapes strike me as intrinsically beautiful or even pleasing, so what’s the appeal? There’s something jokey about bringing a cursor arrow, emoticon, or the all-powerful “like” symbol into the physical world. But there’s something else going on here too, and it’s not the opposite of immaterialism at all. Rather, it’s the inevitable flipside of the same phenomenon. Because like all jokes, these contain a truth: a de facto acknowledgement that the border between the worlds often called “virtual” and “real” is extremely porous.

Penis Prank found with Google Earth

2011-07-01T10:50:00.001-04:00

The principal of a Hamilton, New Zealand secondary school is upset that his fine academic institution is represented by this image in Google Earth. The penises were created in 2009 but the prank's global impact was delayed until someone noticed the image last weekend while looking at area properties. From NZ Herald:

It happened (in 2009) over a weekend but it wasn't until the grass died off bit by bit that phallic symbols started to pop up around the school grounds.

Every week another crude image revealed itself, much to the dismay of staff.

'There's not really much we could do about it,' (acting principal Gerhard van Dyk said.)

'The caretaker took some more weedkiller and tried to camouflage it a bit.'

Mr van Dyk never caught the culprits and the prank would no doubt have passed into schoolboy folklore had it not been captured by Google Maps.

The red-faced principal said he would be contacting Google to plead for the image's removal but an internet privacy specialist said it was difficult to get such satellite photographs changed or blurred.

Cut and Paste

2011-06-30T11:03:00.002-04:00

I wonder if they moved her head, or just altogether replaced it with someone else's?

http://www.psdisasters.com/

Questions

2011-06-29T11:04:00.000-04:00

First, what the hell is cress? And secondly where is that hand coming from?

Ouch, my neck!

2011-06-28T14:36:00.000-04:00

Don't forget to blur and smooth your edges....

http://www.psdisasters.com/

How did that bridge move?

2011-06-27T11:05:00.002-04:00

Seems like the camera can also shift perspectives, wonder how many megapixels it is?

http://www.psdisasters.com/

Wat?

2011-06-26T11:06:00.000-04:00

There are too many problems to mention here...

BIG hands

2011-06-25T11:07:00.000-04:00

http://www.psdisasters.com/

Dropshadow? No it is not too much!

2011-06-24T11:08:00.003-04:00

The Floating Clock

2011-06-23T11:09:00.004-04:00

Another good PhotoShopDisaster

Oprah's extra appendage

2011-06-22T11:11:00.007-04:00