Leaders of the Pixel Art movement, Berlin’s eBoy collective constantly impress with their design work (remember their Amnesty poster?). Even tho their art is pixel-based and inherently digital, ironically most of their work is enjoyed traditionally printed on posters, bags, books, skins, ads, etc. Well now that’s about to change as the eBoys dump their art into the digital pool with their visually engaging iPhone app called FixPix. Created in collaboration with Delicious Toys, the basic idea of the game is to put their artwork back together again after elements of it have been sliced away. Using the phone’s accelerometer, you just have to tilt your iPhone around until you figure out what goes where. Although the app is not out yet, CreativeApplications reviewed the game: “Artworks are not just cut up into slices but are amazingly layered compositions where at times you will need to study even the smallest intricate details to discover how things should fit together. Tilting your iPhone will uncover parts of the composition that you wouldn’t normally see in the finished piece. The process is very enjoyable even if you find yourself (if you are on public transport) pointing your iPhone at someone sitting across you in attempt to match the elements in the artwork.” Even if the gameplay isn’t all that revolutionary, I could entertain myself for hours just looking at eBoy’s art. Nice! Let’s just hope it’s cheap…
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May
eBoy's FixPix iPhone App
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