Osmos is just like real life; you float around absorbing biophobes, trying to avoid getting pulled into a giant sun; and just like real life, some tips on sub-nuclear physics and orbital mechanics would probably come in very handy. These tips will help you progress from being wonderfully average, to a little better than average.
Osmos [...]
Over on the Physics of Osmos blog they have an Osmos competition. Create a one-minute video illustrating the physics concept that you discover in the game. The top entry will win a $500 gift card to Amazon.com. The top three runners up will also receive prizes.
Steve Jobs the master of orbital dynamics
To submit your entry, follow [...]
Another woah! for Osmos and Hemisphere; Osmos has won the Apple Design Award 2011!
There were twelve winners, just three in each category of iPhone, Mac, Student and iPad, which was Osmos’ category.
Eddy from Hemisphere attended to pick up his award of Apple hardware and metallic cuboid that glows when you touch it. We look forward to seeing [...]
Near Silence, a free album for anyone who donates to the Red Cross Japan appeal.
A supercooled album fractured with exclusives, classics and the new.
Richard Barbieri has exclusively re-recorded his classic Japan track ‘The Experience of Swimming’; Charles Webster has donated an exclusive mix from his brand new January Tuesday project, which was only recorded last week; and Eno [...]
6th Planet app free draw, here are the winners who each get a copy…
Martin Wood
DrWig – visit his site for some excellent and free ambisonic VST plugins for Mac and PC.
Neil Allen
Many thanks to all fellow anthropoids and humanoids who added a comment, may the random numbers be in your favour next time.
Available now on [...]
Read: 6th Planet, App Winners
6th Planet, brand new iPhone / iPod game from new indie developer Monkube. It’s a fusion of arcade game and comic book and features an electronic soundtrack from Leones, Robots in Space, Forest Fargloam and myself (with Gas-Microscopic). I also made some of the in-game sounds on my ARP Odyssey and old phaser pedal. Includes [...]
A couple of recent interviews with
Wolfson Music: Interview with Mat Jarvis of Gas/High Skies
Think Before Type: Geek Music – Osmos / High Skies / Mat Jarvis – An Interview
There was a third, but I’ve just checked the link and the site seems to have collided with a dematerializer.
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Read: Mat Jarvis interviews… Wolfson Music, Think Before Type
Dustin Brown sent us this strangely fascinating video he created of para-dichlorobenzene crystals (mothballs) growing under a microscope, looking like organic pixels and set to Microscopic. We took the opportunity to ask him how he created it.
Mat Jarvis: How long have you been observing things under the microscope?
Dustin Brown: I started observing through the microscope [...]
What a year Osmos has had! No1 in the iOS App Store and Apple’s iPad Game of the Year(!) as well as the PC/Mac/Linux version selling 250,000 copies in a week in the Humble Indie Bundle just before Christmas.
Hemisphere Games, the creators of Osmos, have posted some of the end of year awards it has [...]
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 [...]
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