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raptorsafari.com
Have you ever really wanted to just get into an SUV, drive around the wilderness and look for velociraptors to run over? Yeah, I tend to get those inclinations a lot too, but luckily for me, the good folks over at Flashbang Studios have created a game called Off-Road Velociraptor Safari. This is a web-based flash game that was made in just eight weeks. The object of the game is to score as many points as possible in five minutes by driving your SUV over cliffs, doing barrel rolls, collecting pods, and exporting raptors all within an explorable environment. Now, it’s actually possible to play this game passively and score a ton of points without actually killing any of those feathery dinos; however, I must say, it’s a hell of a lot more fun knocking them off cliffs and sandwiching them between rocks. The scoring system works brilliantly as you can build up multipliers as you long as your the multiplier meter stays on the screen. On top of all that, the game keeps a record of your scores and there are over 20 achievements that range from simple to ridiculously tricky. The controls are simply to learn, all you need to work with are the arrow keys. ‘B’ controls your SUV’s nitro and spacebar controls your spiked capture ball, which can be used nab raptors and also to fling captured raptors across the map. Sure, the game is violent, but there’s no blood, and it’s not realistic at all because we all know dinosaurs aren’t real. www




sleeveface.com
Have you ever looked at a record sleeve and wondered if the sleeve was bigger, what else the image would contain? Well, now you no longer have to imagine. This blog features individuals continuing a record sleeve headshot with a full–body depiction of how they think the rest of the image might look. The blog features hundreds of photographs that in some instances are astounding, especially when you consider some the detail that had be put into each shot. Some favourite photo projects I’ve seen on the site are The Cure’s Standing on A Beach, The Rolling Stones’ Tattoo You and the image posted below, of The Soup Dragons’ LP. Sleeveface may not save the music industry, but it certainly can increase the interest in the vinyl format. Kudos! www