Animated QR Code and Fez Sky Island

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Could QR Code embed animation within it’s limit of 2,953 bytes?

The current version of Barcode Scanner for Android scanner does not work with the data URI.

See also: Everything a Marketer Should Known About QR Codes by Drew

QR-Code bots

While searching for the answer I did find an awesome QR-Code bots visualization.

Sky Island

As we already are into blocks I here is a game which applies some cool affine transforms on its isometric world.

In the game the player can rotate the world in 3D just like in Fez.  On my Samsung Galaxy S the game is somewhat slow tho.

1. When will this game concept be ported to WebGL or Molehill?
2. Will an affine transform tetris emerge?
3. With affine transforms could Minecraft be transformed into a Minecraft 2D – a digging game like Gem Miner for Android?
   
4. When will Fez run on Android?
   

More animated gifs

PS. For a while I have been downloading such cool animations via Google Reader. Yet it took me a while to find the real source feeds for them.

See also:

• http://www.youtube.com/v/yDbZnLBzUEs?
• Why 2D is King bi Michael
• QR codes and your business by Tobin

Money grows in a field. Its made of cotton.

“A job is a short term solution to a long-term problem.” - Robert Kiyosaki

The #1 difference between rich people and the middle class, is that while the middle class works for money, the rich make money work for them.

There are three types of income:

1. Earned income – Your Salary
2. Portfolio income – Dividends from your assets
3. Passive income – Commisions and revenue

Listen to: Types of Passive Income Generated Online Part 2  by Pat (Part 1) (Part 3)

See also:

• Investing 101
• Invest in yourself by Daniel
• Creating Passive income by Tammy
• Income elasticity at tutor4u.net
• Rate Race Escape Artists
• How to nurture your most important asset – you by Daniel
• Polarizing by Tynan
• Your Money or Your Life by Trent
• Unautomate your money by Baker
• Tips to increase your wealth by Marelisa
• An update on the website I bought last year by Martin

Ideas must be presented

Most ideas fail, not because they are bad ideas, but because they are badly presented.

Most new ideas look crazy at first. Most old ideas look crazy at last. - Onliners

[...] Your first 30 seconds will make a huge difference to the rest of the presentation. Mention an experience they can relate to, make them laugh or just surprise the audience, and you are likely to have their attention for a fair number of minutes. They are expecting additional surprises and therefore are likely to listen carefully to every word you say, not to miss your next joke/surprise.

See also:

• Good idea vs good people by Amir
• Why presentation matters by Hugh
• Why Great Ideas Fail by Scott
• You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can’t get them across, your ideas won’t get you anywhere
• Tips to create screencasts by Rebecca
• Content to attract your audience by Lisa
• The goal is to do business with people who believe what you believe.
• Get feedback by Mitch
• The creative idea implementation plan at jpb.com
• Sometimes the name is the contribution by John
• Think before pitch by Shani

Transmover New Generation

Tim from IndieGames has intruduced yet another awesome puzzler “Transmover New Generation” to kill time with.

While playing this new game the following games and ideas game into mind:

• Could we apply multplayer on such games?
• Could we apply automatic replays on such games?

Remember, as Chris has observed, there may be a rather big market just for observers, who like to watch others playing.

See also: ASCIIpOrtal

See also: Cursor*10

See also: Lightbot

See also: Chronotron

See also: Star guard

See also: Evacuation

See also: Powercursor

Everybody Edits

Chris from Player.IO has published some numbers (see video) on his recent success game Everybody Edits.

250 000 registered users

Average session time 35 min

Total income 39613 USD

Recipe for success:

• Build a community
• Constant development and updates
• Multiplayer
• Identity and persistence
• What sells
  • Showing off
  • Upgrades
• Create admins and moderators for
  • graphics and videos
  • forum and wiki
  • web development

Raph Koster Social Mechanics for Social Games

Cory has directed me to a new awesome presentation from Raph Koster.

A few highlights:

• Players compete to get stuff, and whatever I get, you can’t have.
• I can take your stuff, you can take my stuff
• A game where players have secret roles
• Transitions of state (birth, marriage, death, levelling up)

 

See also:

• Game ontology
• Chemistry of game design
• Game Mechanics
• Social mechanics talk from 2010 by Raph (small worlds)
• Single-Player, Multiplayer, MMOG: Design Psychologies for Different Social Contexts by Ernest
• Game Studies
• Commentary by Tadhg
• How little things escalate by Ryan

 

Meet Tom and the end of the level boss

<BombScare> i beat the internet
<BombScare> the end guy is hard

- bash.org

Today I found Tom’s shed. Check out his awesome work.