You may have noticed we have had a birdhouse hanging here at gspdigital.com housing a pair of birds from Audubon’s Birding the Net contest that we at GSP have been a part of. It’s not too late to start birding, in fact, the competition is just beginning to heat up. Get started by rolling over a bird above or visit the game on Facebook.
Satisfy your craving for mystery and intrigue mixed into daily routine with Gumshoe:
Introducing Flixmaster, an HTML-5 video editor/player that could enable new ways to experience digital video online.
Since it allows users to produce online video content with a simple drag and drop system, this could be fun technology to explore for digital storytelling projects.
Contributed by Ralph Paone
Challenge your friends to a virtual race around the world with this clever Facebook app. An advergame for Mini France, MINI Maps lets you design your own racing vehicle and then zoom through life-like cities thanks to satellite images from Google maps.
Via Digital Buzz
8-Bit Invaders is just a simulation, but seems like a stellar idea to project a video game on building. Making it playable would be even cooler.
via laughing squid
contributed by Sosia Bert
What do you get when you combine the mystical World of Warcraft with Foursquare?
World of Fourcraft uses the Google maps API and Foursquare to transform New York into a huge, WOW-inspired, multi-player strategy game fueled by check-ins. New Yorkers: declare your allegiance to a borough today!
As it’s well-put by Mashable, “the nerdverse might just explode.”
Via Mashable
It may not be the most innovative idea ever, but this live version of Angry Birds was probably really fun to produce. Plus it’s always interesting to see the translation of an online experience into the physical world — it definitely started a party in Barcelona!
Contributed by Collin Whitehead
Typing Skills + Shooting = Fun
I kept waiting for subliminal messages to come through in the words which fell down.
This would be a lot harder if the words were all captcha codes. That would be challenging, but would it be as fun?
http://www.phoboslab.org/ztype/
A Miami ad school concept campaign lets you play Russian roulette with your Facebook account.
Sort of a reverse Whopper Sacrifice for higher stakes. Interesting strategy capitalizing on the growing importance of one’s virtual life.
You have to wonder though, if this was a real concept how would it be spread if it keeps zapping people’s profiles, the very place where their friends would learn about it? :)
http://mashable.com/2011/05/11/facebook-russian-roulette/
We’ve seen the MMOG Wordsquared, now Pac-Man fans can eat their pac-dots too in The World’s Biggest PAC-MAN. Built in HTML5 to promote IE9 by the folks at Soap.
via laughingsquid