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BlockMyBlocks is out now on Web, iOS, Android. This is how it got made: the decisions, the pipeline, and what I would do differently. What it is A balance game for all ages. Stack the pieces on a deck that tips, hold it steady, and keep going — the levels never run out. Stack the pieces on a deck that tips, hold it steady, and keep going — the levels never run out. Determinism and golden tests Th…

these california homes reveal how architecture changes when fire becomes something the house is expected to encounter. The post how do california architects design a house to live with wildfire? appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine .

composed of a constellation of fresnel lenses, the kinetic sculpture responds to the wind, continuously reframing, fragmenting, and displacing its surroundings. The post kinetic constellation of fresnel lenses by vincent leroy distorts bali’s landscape appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine .

The creators of “Sterling Point” and “Off Campus” sought to depict relationships that were far different from the soapy rivalries of earlier young adult shows.

The Map of Steam This is every released Steam game with at least ten reviews — about 80,000 of them — arranged so that games which play alike sit close together. Positions come from SteamMaho's game-mechanics analysis blended with community tags: rare shared features pull games together, generic ones barely count. Zoomed out you see continents of design; zoomed in, individual games. Click any dot…

A survey of 165 rock art sites at Awunbarna finds the densest known concentration of recent Rainbow Serpent paintings in the region, and its authors argue that painting Rainbow Serpents at such a size was a response to the cultural change Europeans brought.

The Stuckeman School in the Penn State College of Arts and Architecture is hosting its annual Research Open House from noon to 1:30 p.m. on Oct. 1 in the Jury Space of the Stuckeman Family Building to highlight the diverse research that is ongoing by faculty and students within the school.

By late afternoon, Paris has a way of drawing you from one discovery to another. You leave a… The post Five Bookshops to Visit in Paris appeared first on Arts To Hearts Project .

Vintage Emulator Studio brings iconic vintage synths and samplers to life — MAME-powered component-level emulation should offer exceedingly accurate sound