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I just added 3 new products to the shop.
Miniboss T-shirt by SEIBEI — $22
Unicorn Dream Attack - Love Bits — $12
Calvin & Hellen's Bogus Journey Instruction Booklet — $4
The Miniboss t-shirt was designed by David Murray for his t-shirt company, SEIBEI. David is a cool dude, and he's got a lot of talent, so expect more SEIBEI lovin's from Attract Mode in the future.
Love Bits is Unicorn Dream Attack's ode to your heart. It's really good. If you are into chip music, definitely check that one out.
And finally, Calvin & Hellen's Bogus Journey Instruction Booklet is Calvin Wong's ridiculously funny faux instruction booklet for the game he made with Hellen Jo and Derek Yu for Game Over/Continue. It's one of my favorite items in the shop, and it's only $4! Designed, printed, folded and stapled by the loving hands of Calvin himself.
Adam
November 27, 2009
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This Saturday, November 7th, in Little Tokyo! DATA BEEZ West Coast Micro Tour show 1 of 4.
This stop includes a chip music workshop at the Japanese American National Museum at 2PM and a live concert next door at the Chop Suey Lounge at 8PM. Both will feature minusbaby, starPause, crashfaster and Trash80 with visuals by Paris and Daniel Rehn.
If you've been waiting to check out Giant Robot's Biennale 2 at JANM, this is the absolute best time to go. Instead of paying the normal $9 museum admission fee, come with flier in hand to get access to the Biennale exhibition, the chip music workshop, AND the concert at Chop Suey all for $5. Learn about chiptunes, play some indie games, enjoy the art and then walk over to Chop Suey for epic chip beatz.
From databeez.com:
Chip music - an avenue of audio and visual exploration for artists choosing to adopt vintage video games as a deliberate, aesthetic choices - has enjoyed enormous success for over a decade on the East coast with world-class events the Blip Festival, Pulsewave and recent newcomer, 8static.
For the first time ever, Data Beez is spreading those same addictive, low-tech sounds across the West. It signals an evolving movement and sets a precedent for the future of chip music on the West Coast.
Directions to DATA BEEZ: LA View Larger Map
The show is this Saturday, so I need your help letting people know about it! Spread the word with the web flier and the print flier. (Don't forget to print out the flier to get $4 off admission!)
Adam
November 02, 2009
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Listening to Goto80 is an essential part of your daily nutritional requirements. Released by Bleepstreet (please tell me a vinyl is coming at some point!), Breakfast contains two edits and three remixes of the title track.
Video by the C-Men.
Via Goto80
Adam
October 16, 2009
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It's time to expand that Housewares section, and these little guys are up to the task. Both are now available in the shop.
Ice Invaders Ice Tray — $7.50
Pac-Man Oven Mitt — $15
Also, if you missed your brief chance to get a Game Girl t-shirt when the shop launched, they are now back in stock.
Adam
October 07, 2009
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Sparky's Star Guard was one of the first games I covered when I started this blog back in January.
It's finally finished, and here are a few reasons you should go play it:
- Plays like a minimalist Mega Man with less bosses.
- Excellent visual design and animation.
- Unlimited lives and generous checkpoints ward off frustration.
- Time-tracking and point system encourage speed runs.
- It's a Flash-based download, so it will work on PC + Mac.
- It's free.
Also, check out Sparky's work-in-progress Tin Can Knight.
Via Pixel Prospector / indev
Adam
October 07, 2009
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IndieCade '09 came to a close last night, and it was officially the best videogame event / conference / festival I've ever been to. It was totally laid back: the perfect environment for everyone to relax and talk shop.
You hear it all the time—and it's completely true—you will never find so much love, goodwill and camaraderie as there is in the independent videogame scene.
Everyone was really excited that Keita Takahashi (creator of Katamari Damacy and Noby Noby Boy) was coming to the festival. That's what happens when you make one of the best games of all time.
Since the fest is on the smaller side, everyone was able to hang out together for the 4 days. After it ended, about 40 of us headed to Robin's house for a surprisingly gourmet barbecue.
While scarfing down a gorgonzola mushroom burger and some salmon, I asked Keita if he had played any of Cactus's games. When he said he hadn't, we busted out a laptop and fired up the Tuning demo.
Soon we had a dozen indies passing around the laptop trying to finish the demo, which in true Cactus fashion is punishingly difficult. Turns out Tuning is a great party game. Who knew?
Photos by Elliot Trinidad
Adam
October 05, 2009
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This hand—stamped beauty shows up packed with all your goodies when you buy at least $20 $25 worth from the shop.*
I contacted my internet buddy Spacesick with the idea, and he floored me with the design. If you can’t wait to see more Attractive Space collaborations, don't worry. We're currently working on a Cave Story t-shirt design that will hopefully be ready for the WiiWare launch. **squints eyes/crosses fingers/clenches rear**
And when I say, “We're working on…”, I mean I ask him to design something and he uses his crazy talent to create awesomes. It’s a good system.
Photo by Bryan Lee O’Malley (His looked better than mine. Thanks, Bryan!)
Update: Some products don't fit in the box, like posters or other large items. If you order large items and/or adding the box will make your shipping charge go up drastically, I'll ship your order without the box. Also, the box won't fit in your order if you choose the USPS Flat Rate Small Box or USPS Flat Rate Envelope shipping options.
Adam
September 29, 2009
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