March 29, 2024

Skitch’s chief designer talks mistakes, lessons learned, and new / returning features for his screenshot app

They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but no one ever focuses on how quickly it fell. Skitch can't exactly be compared to an empire, but with some ten million users globally, there were a lot of voices shouting a lot of various things when the upstart jumped in bed with Evernote and upgraded itself to version 2.0. Not surprisingly, members of our … [Read more...]

Miyazaki Plans Fighter Plane Designer Biopic

Famed "Spirited Away" and "Ponyo" director Hayao Miyazaki is tackling something quite different for his next effort at the helm. Twitch reports that Miyazaki is said to be developing a film about Jiro Horikoshi, the man who designed the 'Zero' fighter plane infamously used by the Japanese during the Pearl Harbor attack during World War II. The … [Read more...]

‘Red Dead’ Designer Employs A “Wake Cycle”

Boss Media has picked up Christian Cantamessa and Chris Pasetto's post-apocalyptic sci-fi spec script "Wake Cycle" says Variety. Set in an underground hyperbaric facility for the world's greatest scientists, the title refers to the available air every six months that allows two custodial workers to maintain the facility. However when one of their … [Read more...]