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Archive for January, 2014

Artist Alley Arcade Stick

Posted on January 31st, 2014 by Hitstun

I’ve always wanted to put some one-of-a-kind hand-drawn art in my Qanba Q4RAF, so at last weekend’s Ohayocon, I brought a blank template and and asked a couple of the artists there to draw their original characters. The team of Iota Soul knocked it out of the park with Killer Bee on the left side. […]

Jamaican bobsled team raises $30,000 in dogecoin

Posted on January 23rd, 2014 by Hitstun

You know Bitcoin? The crypto-currency that’s about as fake as real money? It’s apparently big enough that there was a need for an alternative. Liam Butler likes that doge meme so he created dogecoin. He also liked Cool Runnings so he started a fund, Dogesled, to send the Jamaican bobsled team to the 2014 Sochi […]

Wallpaper Watchface

Posted on January 17th, 2014 by Hitstun

For Android Pebble users, Canvas for Pebble makes plenty of information available to your watchfaces. It’s hard to display much information on such a small screen and still look nice. For Wallpaper Watchface, the time is still large and in charge, and the other two lines are stuffed with so much small text and icons […]

Canvas for Pebble

Posted on January 13th, 2014 by Hitstun

UPDATE: I made another Canvas screen called Wallpaper Watchface. Go get that one instead. It’s better. Wearable devices are the next big thing in tech. I’ve jumped on the bandwagon with a Pebble, and I want to develop for it. On Android, Canvas for Pebble lets you quickly make watchfaces that nicely display the time, […]

Maldita Castilla

Posted on January 4th, 2014 by Hitstun

Locomalito makes hard traditional 2D games that can be beaten in one sitting, and he releases them for free out of his love of arcade culture. Check out Maldita Castilla, his love letter to dark Nintendo Hard platform games like Ghosts ‘n Goblins and Castlevania. Most of the monsters come from Spanish myths we don’t […]