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A World Of Wonders: Globequest

Zinc Roe & TVO has just launched Globequest, a game that lets children (and adults) learn more about different places and cultures around the world!

This is probably one of the bigger projects I had the opportunity to work on…

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Storybuilder – A History

This is a little story about a storybuilder and a project that came and went and came back again. Way back when the universe was young and zinc Roe was operating out of a bachelor apartment we created this thing…

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Get Arctic Shuffle Lite

Yesterday we released a Lite version of Arctic Shuffle – our fun new game for the iPhone and iPod touch. The lite version includes 20 of the 72 levels and is a great way to get a taste of the…

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Arctic Shuffle Sneak Peak

Our team has just finished work on Arctic Shuffle – our first game for iPhone and iPod touch. Big thanks for Brian McBrearty for the tasty music and Trevor Van Meter for the lovely visuals. The game is in review but in…

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Next stop, App Store

We’re very excited about our early experiments with iPhone development. Today we are submitting our very first app to the App Store. Timecoder is a super-simple time code calculator, an idea that came to us from our super-talented video editor Kyle…

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Zimmer Twins at Dust or Magic

My quick walkthrough of the Zimmer Twins. Loads of articles, ideas and videos from Dust or Magic is available on the Dust or Magic Wiki.

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Crappy Cat

Crappy Cat is not a good kitty — unless you consider hard-drinkin’ and hard-livin’ to be desirable qualities in a cat. Then Crappy Cat is a very, very good kitty. The new Crappy Cat game, (which we’ve been programming all summer)…

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Flashcan on the Chumby

A little over a year ago we received an email from a company working on ‘an open source consumer electronics device’. About a month later we got a package in the mail containing something that looked like a bean bag with an LCD screen attached to one side and a little label reading ‘prototype’. It was a Chumby. It ran Flash Lite and it was cute.

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A Real Page Turner

A few years ago, zinc Roe began working with the Toronto Public Library to develop a tool for displaying archival books from their various special collections branches. The library’s inspiration was Turning the Pages; a tool created by the British Library…

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