Microscopics

Free Gas and High Skies tracks for all customers and subscribers to our occasional newsletter.

High Skies – The Good Earth mp3 (click to play snippet).
This is an old unreleased Gas track from around 1998. It’s a micro track at only 43 seconds long, that’s why the preview clip above is so short. A broadcast from Apollo on Christmas Eve.

High Skies – A Star in the East mp3 (click to play snippet).
A special Christmas mix from a future release. Sleigh bells, speech synthesizers and analogue crystals. Some of you may have a copy of this already but this is a higher quality MP3 and artwork.

The links to the full tracks will be sent out in the newsletter, which we’re hoping to get out today (Fri 17th) or tomorrow, so please let us know if you haven’t received it by late Saturday.

Anyone who purchases anything or subscribes before the end of the year 2010 will also get the free tracks.
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UPDATE 1: It seems I posted the wrong version of A Star in the East. There is no Stephen Hawking in this version!

UPDATE 2: A good percentage of newsletters will get stopped in bad spam filters, or get returned from changed emails that people have forgotten to update. So please let us know if you haven’t received your free tracks yet and we’ll send you some more.

Happy Christmas humans!

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Five great games, pay what you want. Osmos along with Braid, Machinarium, Cortex Command, Revenge of the Titans and the High Skies EP, is part of the sequel to the Humble Indie Bundle! There are a ton of amazing things about this bundle (pay what you want, supporting charity, etc. etc.), but the best – and most entertaining – way to get all the details is to watch the quirky fun vid (“it seems pretty good”)!

HumbleBundle.com

Offer runs out in just a few days

UPDATE 1: Orders from 150,000 people have now reached over $1,100,000!
UPDATE 2: Now redeemable on Steam and Desura.

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Woah x10. Apple has just announced the four winners of the prestigious apps of the year 2010, and have selected Osmos as the iPad game of the year 2010. Congratulations to Hemisphere Games!

Steve Jobs does all his re-entry calculations using Osmos for iPad.

Osmos includes music from Gas and High Skies (free MP3 downloads)

Also, coincidently Osmos (iOS) has just been updated.

Hey everyone! We’ve submitted a sweet Osmos iOS update (1.6.4) which should be available any day now. By popular demand, it contains:

• Game Center support!
• Skip a Level: Players will be able to skip up to three levels in Odyssey mode. If you’ve been having trouble with a specific level but want to continue the Odyssey (thereby unlocking additional Arcade modes), this update will be a big help!
• Smaller download size on iPhone, allowing it to be downloaded over 3G.

A note for iOS developers out there: we learned a useful lesson we thought we should share. Our last iPhone update (1.6.3) added Retina support, including a set of larger textures that pushed the .ipa file we submitted to Apple up to 19.3 MB. We thought this would squeak by under the 20 MB limit imposed on 3G downloads; but along the way, 1.4 MB was somehow added to the version finally available on the App Store. We’re not sure what in Apple’s process causes this, but we’ve submitted an 18 MB .ipa file this time to try to remain under the limit. Beware the bloat!

Cheers!

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Earlier this week temperatures approached DX7 territory; so I took a few frostbite pics of the snow and ice outside of Microscopics HQ. Warning for those still living in 2001, some images may take a few seconds to load.

One large Wordpress problem is that any image it scales down become very blurred, as below (grr), so please click on images to enlarge and sharpen focus. Also, the first image is 1920 pixels wide so you may have to click the image twice to zoom to 100%…

Click images to enlarge

A foggy miasma over a country stream

Ice and snow on branches

Radiation frost on a grill

 
Apple in the snow

more pics after the break… Continue reading…

Closed roads are open again, absolute zero has been replaced with zero, and the weather has returned to simply gloriously cold and snowy.  We’re pleased to finally be able to announce that all Gas 0095 t-shirts have now shipped. Thank you to everyone for your patience with our weather troubles!

Just a side-note that although shipping costs have gone up every year, for instance typical international shipping for a single t-shirt is now £5.50 (€6.50 / $9), we haven’t increased prices for t-shirts or CDs.

Thank you again for everyone’s support, we appreciate every single order!

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We’re a little snowed in at the moment so I’m afraid that all t-shirts will be delayed for a few days. So many apologies for the extra delay; we’ll get them shipped as soon as we are able.

Here are some photographs I took this morning at Microscopics HQ of the crystal invaders (actual size). Reminds me of our Electron Microscope Snow Zoom post.

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Just a quick post to let everyone know that we hope to start shipping the Gas 0095 t-shirts this Thursday, 2nd December; this is the first time we’ve been able to confirm a solid date.
We’ll also send you an individual email when yours has been shipped.

Over and out

Mat

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Many thanks to everyone who added a comment to win a copy of the new Woob – Paradigm Flux EP

Here are the winners, listed in order of intelligence…

If any of the winners have already bought the EP, let us know and you will be given a full refund. If we haven’t managed to contact you by email then please do contact us.

A big thanks to every single person who took the time to add a comment, we appreciate every one.

We’ve teamed up with our printers for a special offer of more colours, styles, and sizes for our Gas t-shirts. From XS to 2XL, adult, long sleeve, ladies fitted and kids, but only for pre-orders taken now. After this offer has finished we will only have a reduced selection again. Every order includes a free Moog Modular card model.

BE QUICK, OFFER ENDING AT NOON TODAY! – 12pm GMT, Fri 12 Nov

The same high quality shirts and five colour solid inks as before.  The ladies Tshirts are fitted, with tapered sides, and Eurostyle fit in the neck, shoulders and sleeves.

These are the new colour options. Note that on some screens they may all look very similar. Navy is a very dark blue, and Green is Ocean Green, a very dark green.

All prices include shipping.

INSTRUCTIONS
Choose a t-shirt style above and click on ORDER. This will take you to PayPal where you can add your choice of colour (black, navy or green) and size (listed below) to the ‘Add special instructions to merchant’ box (in PayPal). Please contact us here if you need any help or have any questions.

SIZES
ADULT and LONG SLEEVE (Gildan Ultra)
S (34-36″)  M (38-40″)  L (42-44″)  XL (46-48″)  2XL (50-52″)

LADIES FITTED (Gildan SoftStyle Ladies)
S (8-10) M (10-12)  L (12-14)  XL (14-16)  2XL (16-18)

KIDS (Gildan Heavy Cotton)
XS (26″)  S (30″)  M (32″)  L (34″)  XL (36″)

Ladies fitted style top

We’ve had to embed our shopping cart temporarily on the blog as it’s a limited offer. We know it’s not perfect but please let us know here if you have any problems with ordering.

High Skies t-shirts also available (only medium and large sizes left)
This is only a limited offer which will end in a few days, so please order now.

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For a limited time, all orders of CDs, Flac and t-shirts come with a free Moog Modular card model (*doesn’t include MP3s).

Front and Back.

Exactly the same quality as our Minimoog model, they are printed at 600dpi on 350gsm matt-laminated card, die cut and hand scored. 1:8 scale.

Gas 0095 on CD and Flac come with Moog Modular plus Minimoog and Gas 0095 models.

Also included with all t-shirt, CD and Flac orders is the micro Gas 0095 CD model (27mm high)…

Minimoog reproduced by kind permission of Moog Music Inc.

ORDERS
Gas 0095 – CD and Flac – free Minimoog and Moog Modular models
Microscopics MiniMoog Model
T-shirts – free Moog Modular model

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