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Ludum Dare Tiny World: 1 hour down, 14 ideas

Mims H Wright — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 02:18:17 +0000

The theme for LD23 is Tiny World. After handling an unrelated work call I got cracking on ideas. I think a lot of these are pretty good!

Platformer with impasses that require the player to shrink down to sneak past.
Medical War game
Tower Defense game with pixel sized monsters that creep up (unnoticed) but grow suddenly when they reach growth pads near the player.
Manage resources on a tiny planet with too many people (2)
a creature lives in your nose mining boogers + fighting allergens
Position Planets in space so they don’t crash into the sun
Grow planets in a lab setting + release them into the wild
Insect cowboys on a bug ranch
Your in a cell and you can only interact with things that pass by your window
ON a small planet, every bit of acid rain or toxic waste erodes your planet a little. Stop it before the core is exposed!
A platformer where whenever you get hit you shrink a little (everything else grows). The monsters get more detailed and it takes you longer to reach the end (but you never die, just get impossibly small)
Some kind of puzzle or obstacle course using close up photography for graphics. Macaroni Tetris?
City building game where you can only use pieces of molecules that fit together
A game where you destroy particles (ants?) one or a few at a time. Try to get a large score in the hundreds or thousands (1 pt per particle). Violent screams for sfx of course.

I’ll be voting on these using the criteria:

Easy / Simple to make
Innovative
Fun
Kelly’s (wife’s) Pick
Mims’ Pick (worth 1000 points)

I’m on Dribbble

Mims H Wright — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 19:56:50 +0000

I recently joined the “Twitter for designers,” Dribbble.com. If you haven’t seen Dribbble yet, go check it out. It’s a great resource for finding design ideas by keyword search. I am very excited because up until recently, getting onto the site required an invite which seemed impossible to get. I love the site because it inspires me to create new designs and illustrations and reminds me that I’m capable of doing that stuff. That’s right, I can draw AND code!

Check out my profile and follow me!

IA Design Patterns

Mims H Wright — Tue, 20 May 2008 01:00:12 +0000

Here’s a site with some cool IA patterns.
Nice One
If you liked that, there’s more at Yahoo’s Design Pattern Library.
This link is from Information Aesthetics… aaand there’s more like this on Ethan Eismann’s blog who is incidentally an Adobe Thermo Developer.

Leopard 10.5 supports 512 pixel icons

Mims H Wright — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:22:37 +0000

While playing around with Icon Composer in the newest version of XCode Tools for I noticed that Leopard now supports 512×512 pixel icons – much larger than the older 128×128 pixel icons. I assume this has to do with the Cover Flow view for the Finder which displays icons much larger than the other views. Sure enough, Apple have redesigned all their icons for the new format and they look gorgeous. I took some screen grabs of my favourites. Click the thumbnails to see the details. Notice the small text in the iTunes and Dictionary icons and the textures on the truck and the guitar. Hawt!

Click for full size

Dictionary

Garage Band

iTunes

TextEdit

Transmit

Napkintop web design for maximum impact

Mims H Wright — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 23:11:08 +0000

This link is an oldie but a goodie. It has helped me remember to KISS countless times and to focus on the needs of users when designing sites. Check it out.

An Introduction to Using Patterns in Web Design [37 Signals]