{"id":18024,"date":"2010-05-06T17:29:08","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T16:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.razorianfly.com\/?p=18024"},"modified":"2010-05-06T17:33:54","modified_gmt":"2010-05-06T16:33:54","slug":"eboy-announces-fixpix-for-iphone-and-ipod-touch-pure-pixel-fest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/06\/eboy-announces-fixpix-for-iphone-and-ipod-touch-pure-pixel-fest\/","title":{"rendered":"eBoy Announces &#8216;FixPix&#8217; For iPhone (and iPod touch). Pure Pixel Fest."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If your not familiar with <a href=\"http:\/\/hello.eboy.com\/eboy\/\" target=\"_blank\">eBoy<\/a>, they&#8217;re a small German based graphic studio now known the world over. They&#8217;re particularly most known for their jaw-droppingly detailed pixel artwork, and the studio has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/1637328\/eboy-brings-their-genius-for-pixelated-design-to-iphone-app?partner=rss&#038;utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+fastcompany%2Fheadlines+%28Fast+Company+Headlines%29\" target=\"_blank\">yesterday announced<\/a> its bringing a taster of this to both iPhone and iPod touch. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Their new app dubbed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicioustoys.de\/fixpix\/\" target=\"_blank\">FixPix<\/a> presumably short for &#8216;Fixing Pixels&#8217;, is a picture puzzle based app in which you use the iPhone&#8217;s accelerometer to move the various pieces of your surrounding environment until they correctly align. The app uses various pieces of the studio&#8217;s previous and current pixel art.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to explain without you watching the video below, but FixPix is an application which may possibly the first of it&#8217;s kind. The app uses some sort of what can only be described as &#8211; magic &#8211; to simulate the 2D image pieces as ones which look and feel 3-dimensional. There&#8217;s also a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicioustoys.de\/fixpix\/\" target=\"_blank\">flash version<\/a> you can checkout on eBoy&#8217;s own website.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video below to see just exactly what I&#8217;m referring to.<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"535\" height=\"325\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=11340603&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=11340603&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"535\" height=\"325\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>According to eBoy, we can expect to see FixPix hit the App Store &#8220;soon&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>[via @Gizmodo and @FastCompany]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If your not familiar with <a href=\"http:\/\/hello.eboy.com\/eboy\/\" target=\"_blank\">eBoy<\/a>, they&#8217;re a small German based graphic studio now known the world over. They&#8217;re particularly most known for their jaw-droppingly detailed pixel artwork, and the studio has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/1637328\/eboy-brings-their-genius-for-pixelated-design-to-iphone-app?partner=rss&#038;utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+fastcompany%2Fheadlines+%28Fast+Company+Headlines%29\" target=\"_blank\">yesterday announced<\/a> its bringing a taster of this to both iPhone and iPod touch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16,17],"tags":[2470,2469,3501,2471],"class_list":["post-18024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-app-store","category-iphone","category-ipod","tag-eboy","tag-fixpix","tag-iphone","tag-official-app"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18024"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18030,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18024\/revisions\/18030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}