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@malonso

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Human Interface designer at Apple. Previously @samplr , @reactable

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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
3 years
iOS 15 introduces Drag and Drop between apps to the iPhone. Make sure to give it a try! #iOS15
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
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10 years at Apple 
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@malonso
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Watch me talk about the design behind the new iPadOS pointer and how to add pointer support to your apps. Such an honor to present alongside my colleagues @bwalkin , @ms_ccwan and @DylanRoss Full video:
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
2 years
The new iPad Pro with Apple Pencil hover is out. Check it out here: #TakeNote
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
1 year
Vision Pro is out. Super proud of the team and the hard work behind it!
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
10 months
And the unboxing video
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
4 years
Here is my #quarantineproject , a mini version of Samplr for the MacBook Touch Bar. Check it out and download it here ⬇⬇⬇
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@malonso
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3 years
I made an iPad game for our cats. It makes background music too #catinteractiveinstallation #cats #ipad
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
3 years
The original Apple Park. Moscow, 1970
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@malonso
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The new Apple Pencil Pro is out! Check out the new digital shadow that adapts to the tool you are using
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
2 years
Universal Control is out. Just move your cursor to any Mac or iPad nearby. You can even drag and drop files between them. Learn more here:
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
6 years
Yesterday I had the honor to share the stage with the amazing @chan_k and @atnan . Check out our talk about Designing Fluid Interfaces at Apple:
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@malonso
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1 year
The iPhone 15 Pro with the new Action Button is out today. Switch your ringer, launch camera, run a shortcut or use it for anything you want #iPhone15
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
4 years
Goodbye @daftpunk
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
2 years
10 years 👴🏻
@samplr
Samplr
2 years
It’s Samplr’s 10th anniversary! 🪩🫠 I want to thank everybody that has enjoyed Samplr over the years. To celebrate, Samplr is 80% off on the App Store
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
1 year
Great talk! Amazing work @is__real and @crookookoo 👏
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Eugene Krivoruchko
1 year
Check out the talk we did with @is__real about designing interactions for eyes and hands! #WWDC23
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@malonso
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I made a bunch of procedural explorations for a riso print workshop this past weekend. More examples in the thread 👇
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
1 year
Super honored to see artists I admire and respect use my tools to create their art 🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️
@samplr
Samplr
1 year
Fred Again @fredagainagain1 talks about using Samplr @samplr on his music production. From Tape Notes podcast @TapeNotes
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
4 years
Every time you buy a train ticket in Japan
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
4 years
The legendary Roland TR-808 and TB-303 running in your browser. Thanks @yurisuzuki 👏👏👏
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
4 years
Check out the new pointer and trackpad gestures on the new iPadOS!
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
7 months
Congrats on the new book @naotokui_en ! Nao has been working on creativity and AI for the last 20 years. If you are interested this book is a must read.
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
3 years
It was challenging to find the colors, shapes and movement that looked attractive for the cats. This research on the visual system of toads was very helpful
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
4 years
Happy birthday Samplr! 🎉
@samplr
Samplr
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Samplr turns 8 today. Happy birthday Samplr! 🎊
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
8 years
It's official. I'm now marcOS
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
4 years
Check out the second video where we discuss how we made the music and sounds for the game Lucid Heist. Direct link here #samplr
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@kindafiction
kinda fiction
4 years
Here is a 3 part series on things I learnt while making Lucid Heist. Think of them as a table of content, I don’t dive super deep into each topics, since I rather cover the breadth of topics with ref linked. Hope you enjoy them! #gamedev #ue4 watch here
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
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. @ThrowingSnow talks about @samplr in an interview for @MusicTechMag
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
3 years
Great analysis of Universal Control coming to macOS and iPadOS later this year #WWDC21
@verge
The Verge
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How Universal Control on macOS Monterey works
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
4 years
Apparat performing live with my app Samplr 👏🙇‍♂️🤯
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
9 years
The Ghost in the MP3. The sound left behind when you compress a song to MP3 http://t.co/Cu3NzIGOZQ
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
4 years
Rope physics is the new “liquid in a bottle” for gamedevs
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
13 years
Siri, call me an ambulance! http://t.co/ur8nmpBT
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
4 years
Tomorrow I will be honored to talk with @HereIsDamian on his Twitch channel about my music work @reactable , @samplr and our work with @bjork More info:
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
4 years
@highqualitysh1t I was listening to Autechre when I saw the tweet and it worked so well I had to put them together. Here it is with Autechre - au14
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
4 years
Really cool screensaver from @RezaAli 👏
@rezaali
Reza Ali
4 years
🎉 Introducing 🎉 Reactions, a #macOS #screensaver inspired by reaction diffusion. When activated, beautiful patterns grow and evolve to gradually fill the screen & show the time. After every minute, it resets & fun begins again. Buy: #generative #metalapi
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
4 years
Check out @agathayu new beautiful game!! 👏 I worked on the music and sound effects. Play it here:
@agathayu
agatha
4 years
So... I made my first (tiny) game! In two quarantine months (after work)✌️ In Lucid Heist, you suffer from severe artist block, so you dive into dreams to steal inspirations. ✨Good artists copy, great artists steal ✨ Play here: RT appreciated 😳
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
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And Matmos playing @samplr on 2 iPads 🤯🤯🤯
@DDDrewDaniel
DREW DANIEL
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what we did on our summer vacation
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
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Game music was composed on the OP-Z, exported into tracks and mixed dynamically based on gameplay
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agatha
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So... I made my first (tiny) game! In two quarantine months (after work)✌️ In Lucid Heist, you suffer from severe artist block, so you dive into dreams to steal inspirations. ✨Good artists copy, great artists steal ✨ Play here: RT appreciated 😳
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
6 years
Amazing work making all these demos and sharing them @nathangitter ! 🙏
@nathangitter
Nathan Gitter
6 years
Inspired by Apple's WWDC18 presentation "Designing Fluid Interfaces", I built all of the major demos from the talk. 💧📱 Animated buttons, interactive gestures, bouncy springs, and more! Medium post and GitHub repo linked below 👇
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@malonso
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Thanks again @nobi and @daitomanabe for mentioning my work in your article 🙏🙏🙏
@nobi
Nobi Hayashi 林信行
6 years
まもなく新しいiPhoneが発表されるとiPhoneは全面的にfluid interfaceの時代に。この新しい操作体系づくりにはメディアアート界のかなり凄い人が関わっていることを真鍋大渡さんに解説してもらいました! アップル〈WWDC〉に潜入、真鍋大度が見た未来とは?
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
4 years
“Best app for the MacBook Pro M1 Touch Bar” — @MorningdewMedia 😅😅😅
@samplr
Samplr
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Great in depth review of Samplr for Touchbar by @MorningdewMedia . Thank you! 🙏
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
4 years
Voice distortion and sound effects were created with @samplr and Adobe Audition
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
3 years
Really intrigued by this Google search suggestion 🤔 #hightechburrito
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
6 years
@RezaAli @chan_k @atnan Thanks Reza! It will be online 24h after the session on the WWDC app and website:
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
3 years
I love how Looom uses musical concepts in their animation app. Amazing work @ioramastudio
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
2 years
I’m going to be at @OFFFest Barcelona with the  HI Design Team this week. DM me if you’ll be around
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
3 years
Every time you use a character, it renders a new unique variation
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Marcos Alonso
3 years
This is so cool @crookookoo ! 🤯😍🔥
@crookookoo
Eugene Krivoruchko
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It's alive! 🔊👂
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
3 years
Here is the final design and the printed result using yellow and fluorescent pink ink
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
4 years
Really insightful article about the design behind the new iPadOS cursor
@TechCrunch
TechCrunch
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How Apple reinvented the cursor for iPad | by @panzer
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
3 years
Check out @agathayu 's tutorial on how to create holograms for the Looking Glass @LKGGlass 👏👏
@agathayu
agatha
3 years
Hello friends! Earlier this year I helped @LKGGlass to create a tips & tricks video on how to put your VR art into a hologram. I used @Substance3D medium (you can also request to be a beta tester for their new app, Shaper)
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
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Kicking off “Q&A: Design for Apple Pencil.” If you have any questions about the new Apple Pencil hover feature you can ask the design team behind it here: #AskApple
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
4 years
New project from @xtrrdnryfclty 🎉
@xtrrdnryfclty
Extraordinary Facility
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
4 years
@richlyons_ AFAIK they are not allowed to advertise tabaco brands in certain countries so they use subliminal versions of the logos when they race there
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
3 years
Bartosz’s articles are always mind-blowing 🤯
@BCiechanowski
Bartosz Ciechanowski
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Curves and Surfaces –
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
3 years
Check out @agathayu ’s new project for the Lunar New Year 🧧
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agatha
3 years
To celebrate lunar new year 🧧, I’m minting an art collection on @withFND 👏 1 feb 👏 Based on a legend I was told when I was young, this drop has the 12 classic zodiac plus a very honourable mention! Follow along on #WomeninNFTs #NFTLaunch
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
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I made a mac app that renders the visuals using CoreAnimation and exports the layers in the right format for printing. These are some of the quick explorations
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
4 years
Original sample by Eddie Johns
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
3 years
First ever view of the cursor from the other side ↖️😂
@samhenrigold
sam henri gold
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is this a bug or??
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
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Samplr for iPad, a new way to make music touching the sound http://t.co/d7nyl0y5 via @samplr
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
3 years
Happy Lunar New Year!! 🧧 #LunarNewYear
@samplr
Samplr
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Happy Lunar New Year!! #LunarNewYear Here is Apple featuring Samplr for Chinese New Year 2016
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
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😂😂😂
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
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To Tim: The Button on the IPhone was FAR better than the Swipe!
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Busted! 😅
@MisterTuur
ⒶRTHUR
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@malonso Aha! Official indeed.
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
3 years
The game @agathayu made (I contributed the music) is part of an exhibition in Australia @serenadegames
@serenadegames
Serenade
3 years
Finally Games Space @StaticVisionAU #DreamscapesFest opening night pics! Games in Photos: Catacombs of Solaris Revisited - @ianmaclarty Lucid Heist - @agathayu 🔊 @malonso In The Crags - @TaeckerWyss @UmurangiGame - @Veselekov 🎼 @ThorHighHeels Topography - @haraiva 📸 @jemztones
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Marcos Alonso
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Marcos Alonso
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New video by James Blake featuring the Notes app and iOS autocorrect. Watch it full screen on your phone
@jamesblake
James Blake
6 years
Outtake from one of the 200 attempts it took to make this video for you my thumbs are dead
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
10 years
Coldplay will be using a Reactable in their new live sets!! “ @coldplay : New toys #itunesfestival PH http://t.co/tmKdbFYync”
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
3 years
Wordle 234 5/6 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Omg...
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
3 years
Congrats @agathayu on the launch of @Substance3D ! 👏👏❤️❤️
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
5 years
New music VR project from @mrdoob @jonobr1 and @matthewdear 👌👌👌
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
9 years
Japanese girl sharing a YouTube video on her new iPad (1910s) http://t.co/t00MDmLmwi
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
12 years
After months of work, Samplr http://t.co/d7nyl0y5 is finally here. I'd like to thank all the people that helped me with this project!
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
3 years
Happy Lunar New Year Everyone 🧧 #LunarNewYear @agathayu collection of Chinese Zodiac animals is out
@agathayu
agatha
3 years
🧧Happy Lunar New Year Everyone🧧 祝您虎虎生威, 身体健康, 年年有余! My 13 Zodiac 十三生肖 collection is now listed on @withFND #NFTCommunity #LunarNewYear #NFTdrop
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Marcos Alonso
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
4 years
I wonder how many writers are already working on Corona Virus, The Movie, from their lockdown 🤔
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
6 years
@maN0euvre I might not have time to add new features but I'll always make sure the app works with the latest iOS
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
4 years
Another incredible article from @BCiechanowski 👏👏
@BCiechanowski
Bartosz Ciechanowski
4 years
Cameras and Lenses –
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
4 years
Looks like so much fun. Congrats on the launch @robbietilton 👏
@robbietilton
Robbie Tilton
4 years
✨ I'm super proud to announce my new VR game called Steady!!! It's a deceptively simple, but challenging movement game. ✨ Available now for download on the Rift and Vive: Oculus Store:  Steam Store:
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
3 years
I tried making a procedural type too
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Marcos Alonso
4 years
Avril 14th @AphexTwin
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
3 years
#Heardle #8 🔊🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
9 years
Caleidoscope. Cool sample manipulation instrument similar to @samplr
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
4 years
Another amazing interactive article by @BCiechanowski 🤯
@BCiechanowski
Bartosz Ciechanowski
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Lights and Shadows –
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
4 years
Great talk by @MacTyler and @chrisdalonzo about designing widgets for iOS 14. Highly recommended!
@mactyler
Mac Tyler
4 years
Watch me and @chrisdalonzo talk about designing widgets in the new world of iOS 14!
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
10 years
Artiphon. New and exciting musical instrument on Kickstarter
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
10 years
. @SongExploder podcast: Nick Zammuto explains how he composed the song Smells Like Content by The Books http://t.co/oiT6fy3LKx
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
8 years
RIP Don Buchla
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
7 years
This book about interface design for electronic musical instruments looks great! Thanks @kimbjoern
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
9 years
Miles just called... http://t.co/n0bUEG9IFP
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
11 years
#Reactable Systems is 5 years today. Happy birthday @reactable ! http://t.co/3qujcTvNkm
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
8 years
Reactable Rotor looks great. Congrats @reactable team!
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@malonso
Marcos Alonso
10 years
The Making of a Steinway Piano http://t.co/4Qyeg9RzlU
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