<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>News on Curious Electric</title><link>https://curious-electric.com/w/v1/news/</link><description>Recent content in News on Curious Electric</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 11:00:00 +0200</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://curious-electric.com/w/v1/news/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>village: a procedural town generator with a day/night cycle</title><link>https://curious-electric.com/w/v1/news/village/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://curious-electric.com/w/v1/news/village/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;ve been playing with &lt;strong&gt;village&lt;/strong&gt;, a procedural town generator that builds a whole little settlement in the browser — roads, houses, fields, forest and coastline — from a handful of parameters.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>A browser-based editor for the Oberheim Matrix 1000</title><link>https://curious-electric.com/w/v1/news/oberheim-matrix1000/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://curious-electric.com/w/v1/news/oberheim-matrix1000/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The Oberheim Matrix 1000 is a beloved analog synth from 1984 with a famously cryptic front panel — a handful of buttons for a hundred hidden parameters. So we gave it a proper editor that runs entirely in the browser.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Soft launch of mixxape!</title><link>https://curious-electric.com/w/v1/news/mixxape-1/</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://curious-electric.com/w/v1/news/mixxape-1/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://mixxape.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;mixxape&lt;/a&gt; soft launches! Register with the newsletter to be part of the beta program. More on the &lt;a href="https://curious-electric.com/w/v1/projects/mixxape/"&gt;project page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="https://curious-electric.com/w/v1/img/mixxape-1.png#small" alt="the friendly mixxape"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Successful completion of STARLIGHT</title><link>https://curious-electric.com/w/v1/news/starlight2/</link><pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2024 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://curious-electric.com/w/v1/news/starlight2/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We have successfully completed the STARLIGHT project, which was supported by &lt;a href="https://www.filmstiftung.de/news/die-film-und-medienstiftung-nrw-vergibt-340-000-euro-fuer-10-serious-games-projekte/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;Film- und Medienstiftung NRW&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="https://curious-electric.com/w/v1/img/chart1.png#small" alt="first draft of a new way to imagine our neighborhood in the universe"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;!-- &lt;img src="https://curious-electric.com/w/v1/../img/starlight.png" style="border: 1px solid black; width: 80%;" alt="first draft of a new way to imagine our neighborhood in the universe"&gt; --&gt;</description></item><item><title>New courses for Godot Game Engine</title><link>https://curious-electric.com/w/v1/news/news-course-1/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 Sep 2023 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://curious-electric.com/w/v1/news/news-course-1/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We are now offering Godot Game Engine courses for small teams, both in person and remote.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For more information and inquiries please send an email to &lt;a href="mailto:info@curious-electric.com"&gt;info@curious-electric.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="https://curious-electric.com/w/v1/img/godot-1.png#small" alt="godot engine homepage screenshot"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;!-- https://godotengine.org/ --&gt;</description></item><item><title>STARLIGHT receives funding</title><link>https://curious-electric.com/w/v1/news/starlight/</link><pubDate>Sun, 03 Sep 2023 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://curious-electric.com/w/v1/news/starlight/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We are grateful to receive funding for the awesome STARLIGHT project from &lt;a href="https://www.filmstiftung.de/news/die-film-und-medienstiftung-nrw-vergibt-340-000-euro-fuer-10-serious-games-projekte/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;Film- und Medienstiftung NRW&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;Mit STARLIGHT wird eine interaktive Sternenkarte mit Gamification-Anwendungen als Web-Applikation entwickelt.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;STARLIGHT is an interactive star map with gamification applications that is being developed as a web application.&amp;rdquo;&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="https://curious-electric.com/w/v1/img/starlight.png#small" alt="first draft of a new way to imagine our neighborhood in the universe"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;!-- &lt;img src="https://curious-electric.com/w/v1/../img/starlight.png" style="border: 1px solid black; width: 80%;" alt="first draft of a new way to imagine our neighborhood in the universe"&gt; --&gt;</description></item><item><title>Next courses announced at CGL Winter 2023</title><link>https://curious-electric.com/w/v1/news/news-cgl-3/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Jul 2023 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://curious-electric.com/w/v1/news/news-cgl-3/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;From September to December 2023 more Godot and Javascript for MA1 and MA3 courses on the
&lt;a href="https://colognegamelab.de/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;Cologne Game Lab&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;!-- [Staff page](https://colognegamelab.de/about/faculty-staff/contract-lecturers/dirk-krause/) --&gt;</description></item><item><title>Next Godot course at Cologne Game Lab</title><link>https://curious-electric.com/w/v1/news/news-cgl-2/</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 May 2023 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://curious-electric.com/w/v1/news/news-cgl-2/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In May and June 2023 more Godot 3.5.2 and 4 in a course for the
&lt;a href="https://colognegamelab.de/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;Cologne Game Lab&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Schedules for Master classes:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;MA1: 12.05.2022, 23.05.2023, tba&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;!-- [Staff page](https://colognegamelab.de/about/faculty-staff/contract-lecturers/dirk-krause/) --&gt;</description></item><item><title>Lychor released on Apple App Store</title><link>https://curious-electric.com/w/v1/news/lychor/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 2023 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://curious-electric.com/w/v1/news/lychor/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;LyChor, an App to display lyrics and Chords was released on the App Store!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="https://curious-electric.com/w/v1/img/lychor_preview.png#small" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;More information on &lt;a href="https://lychor.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;the product page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;!-- [Staff page](https://colognegamelab.de/about/faculty-staff/contract-lecturers/dirk-krause/) --&gt;</description></item><item><title>Filmstro V2</title><link>https://curious-electric.com/w/v1/news/filmstrov2/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2023 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://curious-electric.com/w/v1/news/filmstrov2/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href="https://filmstro.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;Filmstro WebApp&lt;/a&gt; V2 is about to get ready! &lt;a href="https://curious-electric.com/w/v1/projects/filmstro"&gt;project page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Game trailer first draft</title><link>https://curious-electric.com/w/v1/news/news-yt-2/</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://curious-electric.com/w/v1/news/news-yt-2/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Trailer for possible upcoming game written in Godot to support the Band &lt;a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/5eTX5kMhPoCIDxxnt2FdZR" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;Radio Anywhere&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r-r8lRbL3E" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r-r8lRbL3E&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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 --&gt;</description></item><item><title>Godot tutorial published</title><link>https://curious-electric.com/w/v1/news/news-yt-1/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://curious-electric.com/w/v1/news/news-yt-1/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Tutorial on how to import Assets into the Godot game engine.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r-r8lRbL3E" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r-r8lRbL3E&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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 --&gt;</description></item><item><title>Preparation for CGL course</title><link>https://curious-electric.com/w/v1/news/news-cgl-1/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2022 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://curious-electric.com/w/v1/news/news-cgl-1/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In November and December 2022 we will conduct a Godot course for the
&lt;a href="https://colognegamelab.de/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;Cologne Game Lab&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Schedules for Master classes:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;MA3: 27.10.2022, 03.11.2022, 10.11.2022, 17.11.2022&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;MA1: 07.12.2022, 14.12.2022, 11.01.2023, 18.01.2023&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;!-- [Staff page](https://colognegamelab.de/about/faculty-staff/contract-lecturers/dirk-krause/) --&gt;</description></item><item><title>Website Relaunch</title><link>https://curious-electric.com/w/v1/news/relaunch/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2022 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://curious-electric.com/w/v1/news/relaunch/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Website relaunch - finally!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Filmstro WebApp</title><link>https://curious-electric.com/w/v1/news/filmstro/</link><pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2022 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://curious-electric.com/w/v1/news/filmstro/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The new &lt;a href="https://filmstro.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;Filmstro WebApp&lt;/a&gt; is online! For more ino visit the &lt;a href="https://curious-electric.com/w/v1/projects/filmstro"&gt;project page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>'Alvirah and Willy' launch</title><link>https://curious-electric.com/w/v1/news/alvirah/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2022 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://curious-electric.com/w/v1/news/alvirah/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Together with the famous artist Nieves de la Fuente we launched &amp;lsquo;Alvirah and Willy&amp;rsquo; - more infos on the &lt;a href="https://curious-electric.com/w/v1/projects/alvirah"&gt;project page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>