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Kerntype: A Kerning Game that Will Enhance your Design Skills

Here’s a short info about Kerning if you’re not familiar with it.

In typography, kerning, which is also known as mortising, is the process of adjusting the spacing between characters in a proportional font. This is usually done to achieve a visually pleasing result. Meaning the font placement on a particular design project should be readable and easy on the eyes. Kerning should always be considered when writing typography to maintain visual impact and readability function.

How to Play:

Your mission is simple: achieve pleasant and readable text by distributing the space between letters. Typographers call this activity kerning. Your solution will be compared to typographer’s solution, and you will be given a score depending on how close you nailed it.

You can view the typographer and your solution individually. This will enable you to spot the difference between your kern and the solution. You could also use shortcut keys to move the letters more accurately.

The game takes only a few minutes to finish. The objective of the game is to teach the users about kerning and help us understand the value of kerning.

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Tags: Design, game, Kerning, Typography

Super Mario Bros in a Box – Literally

 

Using a Teagueduino and a few inputs and outputs, we put together a physical side-scrolling video game. To control it, there’s a knob on the side. As time advances the game gets faster and faster — can you avoid all the obstacles and make it to the end?

Watch the second half of the video for an overview of how everything is hooked up.

The complete source code is available on teagueduino.org

Tags: box, game, open source, super mario

Play the Star Wars Alphabet Guessing Game

Can you name all the Star Wars characters in this image?

Gamma Squad’s Star Wars Alphabet

Tags: Alphabet, game, guessing game, Star Wars

Super Mario + Portal = Mario Portals

Stabyourself is making this Super Mario and Portal Mashup “parody” game. It’s still unclear when the game will be released. Here’s test number 3 video of the game. Enjoy.

Tags: game, Mario, Mashup, Portal, Portals, super mario

Sonoteca: Online Guess the Image and Guess the Song Game

Sonoteca is an entertainment website which is based on the simple and addictive game of guess images and songs. It is a worldwide competition which is based in knowledge where players compete and guess the image or the song proposed before an opponent to earn as many points as possible. Once you have enough points, you’ll earn the right to play against the best and get a chance to get the prize.

The site is classified in two areas which you might already know based on the statement above; Music and Image. Those areas are further divided into sub areas or sub niches.

• In the Music Area you can find the sub-areas: Rock, Pop, Indie, Metal, Soul, Jazz, Classical, Country, and many others.
• In the Image Area you can find the sub-areas: Actors, Videogames, Movies, Art, Sports, Soccer leagues, Football, Hockey, and many others.-48 games all together.

Choose which niche interests you the most. If you are a movie buff, you will be bombarded with partial images of different movie scenes. Guess which movie the image appeared on and get points which you can use to gain advantage in the game. The more knowledge you have on a particular area, the better your chances are.

The game is 100 percent free. Just register to get a profile page and you can start competing with the whole world.

Tags: game, Guess The Image, Guess The Song, Sonoteca

Roshambo: The Online Multiplayer Rock-Paper-Scissors Game.

Roshambo allows you challenge your online buddies to a game of Rock-Paper-Scissors. The app requires no plugins and will not require you to download anything. Just type in your name and the name of your opponent and send him/her the link to your match. Have fun.

Tags: game, Multi Player, online game, Rock-Paper-Scissors, Roshambo