Free Online Sprite Editor

Imaginary Z pointed me toward this free online sprite editor

http://www.piskelapp.com/



-- GadgetMan

Look Ma, Google melted my landscape

Google Earth and Google Maps now appear to be modeling everything in 3D rather than just giving you the North, South, East, and West aerial views. I thought it was pretty cool.

-- GadgetMan

Signs that you're a good programmer

I thought this was very interesting. Your mileage may vary.
Signs that you're a good programmer

New article: Breaking into making games

An interesting article on Develop from the maker of Canabalt: Breaking into making games

Creative Portal 2 level design

Presumably the man who commissioned this Portal 2 level and the woman to whom he wished to propose marriage are big Portal fans. Boing Boing wrote it up:

http://boingboing.net/2011/08/23/engagement-proposal-as-an-elaborate-portal-2-level.html

or you can go straight to the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8SdYz7cq04&feature=player_embedded

or download the Portal 2 level:

http://www.tophattwaffle.com/?p=2793

It has custom narration by GLaDOS (Ellen McLain) authorized by VALVe.

Unlimited Detail 3D Graphics Technology

Imaginary Z directed me toward the Euclideon unlimited detail 3D graphics technology demo (http://www.euclideon.com/). It looks very interesting. They have a new demo video up as of August 4. Are you ready to create "fictional" and "non-fictional" 3D models without polygon limits?

Katamari Damacy for the web

Paste the following code into the Chrome command line to turn any web page into Katamari Damacy:

javascript:var i,s,ss=['http://kathack.com/js/kh.js','http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5.1/jquery.min.js'];for(i=0;i!=ss.length;i++){s=document.createElement('script');s.src=ss[i];document.body.appendChild(s);}void(0);