Bitmap Books’ ‘Nintendo Entertainment System/Famicom: A Visual Compendium’, a coffee table book that focusses on the visual side of the systems and showcases the amazing pixel art, product design and graphic design associated with them. This is the fourth book in a series that also includes Commodore 64, Commodore Amiga, and the ZX Spectrum.
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Soundfly has several music education courses, released on the monthly basis. The most recent of which is a Chiptune Crash Course taught by Philadelphia’s one and only Chipocrite (aka Paul Weinstein) and promises to “uncover how to make chiptune music using a Game Boy or your computer. Popularized by such artists as Anamanaguchi and Beck, chiptune music is a fast growing genre” according to Soundfly‘s Creative Assets Director Jeremy Young.
In previous stories, we’ve covered making gaming tables from IKEA products and pocket sized synth players. Now we’ve found one intrepid DIY gamer who made an old air hockey table into a full-sized retro Pong machine.
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Upcoming 2D game “88 Heroes” wants YOU! That’s right, you can design a character for the game! The contest ends June 30th 2016, and you could be the designer of the final hero. The game is developed by Bitmap Bureau and published by Rising Star Games (publishers of “Lumo“) and launches August 8th for PC, Mac, Linux, Xbox One and PS4.
Fill out the entry below with your heroes name, ability, bio and appearance. You can tweet your entry to @88heroesgame or email comp@risingstargames.com. The twitter account will also have new heroes being posted daily!
