Here is the description of the game straight off the website:

“Jimmy lives a simple life. All he’s got is a roll of toilet paper. Until the faithful day that his TP rolled away. You play as Jimmy on his epic adventure to get back all that belongs to him and find love and meaning to his life on the way.”

This is a cute little game anyone can play and just like crayon physics, its easy to pick up, moderately challenging and pretty fun. Check it out and let me know what you think of it. Here is the link to download the game to try it out:
http://www.kloonigames.com/blog/games/tp

Too funny!

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A friend of mine had a booth at this expo called CAPE! which stands for Comic and Pop-Culture Expo here in the Dallas area. It’s the 4th annual event and its the worlds largest free comic book event! It’s sponsored by Zeus Comics, one of the bigger comic book stores in the Dallas area.

It was a pretty fun event and it had more of a grass roots vibe to it. There was tons of artists, writers, vendors, and comics galore. My wife is not really into comics but she said she still had a good. We even walked over to zeus comics and she bought some Halloween Nightdance comics. She loves the whole Halloween franchise. My friend Rob Hudecek was showing off his “comic” as well its called Your Place in the World. Check out www.sparekarma.com to find out more about it. Here are some of the pics I took of the events, along with a video I made:

Video of CAPE! Day 2008

Higher Quality Video of the event is coming.

Animoto is a brand new video slideshow creation website created by techies and tv/film producers. The technology behind the site is based on “Cinematic Artificial Intelligence” that thinks like an actual director and editor. It analyzes and combines user-selected images and music with the same sophisticated post-production skills & techniques that are used in television and film. The end result has the visual energy of a music video and the emotional impact of a movie trailer.

Animoto is still in beta so you have to signup to use the site. You basically select between a 30 second video or full length video. The 30 second videos are free. Full length videos cost $3 per video or you can pay $30/year unlimited videos. I chose the 30 second video.The site tells you that you need 12-15 pictures for a 30 second video. I chose a mixture of pictures from friends and family.

You then pick the music that plays with the slideshow and you have to the choice of their collection of Creative Commons license music or from your own collection. It does make you verify that you have permission from the artist to use the audio. I just chose from their library to make it easy.

The last step is to give your video a name and description. You then click create video and wait. It takes a few minutes to create so they give you want they call “distractions” which are basically trailers while you wait. It took about 5-10 minutes to complete the process. Once it is done processing, you are left with a slick video you can embed in your own website, email to friends and also post to YouTube all on the same screen. Here is a link to my finished product on YouTube. Here are some screenshots showing you the process I went through on the site:

Below is my embedded video as well:

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