Arquivo mensal: Setembro 2011

Who is George? – Press Release

LEGO Group Unveils First Fully Integrated Digital-to-Physical
Gaming Experience
 
- Combining physical building with a digital gaming application, LEGO® Life of George invites builders to test building skills in a race against time-
BILLUND, Denmark, September 29, 2011 – The LEGO Group today announced LEGO® Life of George, its first product to combine digital and physical play for a hands-on LEGO gaming experience. Featuring patent-pending brick recognition software, powered by EyeCue, the game challenges players to build models, and place them on a play mat that acts as a “green screen” to capture the image and receive a score based on accuracy and speed. Beginning October 1, 2011, players can purchase the LEGO Life of George set for $29.99 from LEGO Stores and shop.lego.com and download the free Apple iOS compatible gaming application.
LEGO Life of George is a 12-level game that can be played in novice or expert mode. Each level showcases an adventure from George, around whom the game revolves, and is comprised of models of varying difficulty based on the number of bricks needed and the building techniques required to replicate them. Builders are challenged to physically recreate the virtual models from George’s photo album using the LEGO bricks included with the game; once they have successfully completed all 10 models the next level will be unlocked.
In addition to Game Mode which can be played alone or against one competitor in a pass-and-play format, a Creation Mode called “My Life” enables users to design and capture their own models in the app’s virtual scrapbook.
“We understand consumers’ powerful connection to casual gaming, and we have seen how successfully the LEGO brand can translate to a virtual experience, so we pursued development of a fun way to combine both physical and virtual play into one product,” says Paal Smith-Meyer, head of new business at LEGO Group. “Life of George is a result of our desire to provide an innovative way for existing and new fans to play with LEGO bricks and interact with the brand.”
Who is George?
George is a software engineer by day and adventurer by night. His main hobbies are travel, photography and numbers, and has a fun storyline for players to follow and engage with via his Facebook page, I Am George. Fans can expect to see updates and photography from George on his travels as well as hints to new game levels and app updates through his posts.

BStoCI – BrickShelf to CoolIris

Há algum tempo desenvolvi uma pequena ferramenta para ver as galerias do Brickshelf através do CoolIris. Assim substituí um interface datado por um bem mais moderno e de utilização mais natural. O projeto entretanto teve algumas atualizações a cargo do Zé “Ups” Pedro e do Tito Nobre e habita agora numa página da Comunidade 0937.

Funcionalidades:
- Visualização de uma pasta BS, colocando o respectivo endereço (ex: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=324452);
- Visualização dos resultados de uma pesquisa por termos (ainda limitado à primeira página de resultados) (ex: truck);
- Utilização do Bookmarklet;

Allied Avenger

O 6887 Allied Avenger é um conjunto que a LEGO lançou em 1991 dentro do tema BlackTron 2. O esquema cromático e o formato geral da nave com um cockpit destacável fazem que seja uma das naves preferidas de muito AFOL.

Fazoom criou esta brilhante interpretação da nave original da LEGO. Manteve o formato geral, mas aplicou peças e técnicas recentes. Esta nova versão também possui espaço para dois tripulantes e o nível de detalhe é mais alto.

Em Isengard está a Torre Orthanc…

O OneLUG criou esta representação da última marcha dos ents com a torre Orthanc à escala minifig.. ou seja, mais de dois metros de altura. Não vou explicar a importância desta torre no enredo do Senhor dos Anéis, mas gostem ou não dos filmes/livros, vale sempre a pena espreitar as 76 imagens desta página do Flickr. Os detalhes não estão apenas na torre, mas também na batalha que se desenrola na sua base.

 

Via The Brothers Brick.