Superhero doodle game

I found this superhero doodle game that someone created to play with their son (via Bearskinrug).

Its rules are very simple.

  1. You draw a character with a power.
  2. I draw a character whose power cancels your guy’s power.
  3. Repeat.

I think it’s a brilliant concept, me and the Dude have been playing over the last couple of days, here’s what it looks like so far:

Superhero doodle game

New Camera – Samsung NV10

I’m a bit of an analogue boy at heart and have an old Leica IIIC – I my opinion the finest looking camera ever made.

Leica IIIC
Alas in this digital age and especially because of begining to write this blog I just need something easy to carrying around and quick for getting pictures onto my mac. My first choice was obviously the Leica M8, also a bloody fine looking chap, but a modern day digital to boot. 3 grand though… a tad extrangant for taking a few snaps to put on a blog, maybe in a few years when there’s some cheap secondhand ones about?

Samsung NV-10

In the end I plumbed for the Samsung NV10. Not bad looking I think, stood out above the sea of shiney plastic ‘same olds’ also available. Only had it a couple of days, but impressions are pretty favourable so far. It’s got over 10 million pixels, so more detail than I’m ever going to need. It’s really compact, hardly notice carrying it round in your pocket. But the best thing for me is the novel interface.

Samsung NV-10 back

It’s got a series of vertical and horizontal button either side of the screen which are touch sensitive – they give on screen visual feedback to rollover as well and press. It’s a very well thought out 2 handed affair, you can browse, select and breeze through menus much faster than a conventional interface. I wouldn’t be surprised if this sort of thing made it’s way to mobile phone soon too, it would very much suit their menu structures.

Mob Mates

mobmates website for kids

Client: Orange | Agency: Poke | URL: www.mobmates.co.uk

Aimed squarely at the youth pay-as-you-go market the plan was to create something that would get Orange legitimately involved with the explosive growth of social networks. So we created a system whereby if you invite someone to join Orange, and they do, you both get super-cheap texts and calls to each other (and everyone else in your friend’s network).

Sock Monkey

Sock MonkeyThis weekend me and the Dude made our first Sock Monkey’s! Here’s my little fella, he’s called Daddy Long Legs. Lessons learnt from making him were –
Stick to normal sized legs and arms (normal sized socks), sewing and stuffing his was a real pain. Get a sewing machine, generally sewing is a real pain.

While I’m on the subject, here’s some Sock monkey links: