Here's an incredibly ambitious project by local product/interactive strategist Robin Rath that's attempting to make it relatively easy to draw your own video game.

Remember drawing video games as a kid?
In the 1980's, video games like Super Mario Brothers and Donkey Kong were ground-breaking and inspired fans like us to draw our own levels on paper and image playing them. Today, Pixel Press recreates this gaming experience in a new, real way.

Don't just play a video game - start creating your own! Pixel Press is turning video games into an interactive experience, with no coding required. Draw, upload, play and share.

We are inspiring thousands of fans, young and old, to imagine their own video game levels, and start playing them.

If anyone has ever taken the prospect of Kickstarter seriously, it's this guy. A full scale campaign has been unleashed with a great looking website, a well thought out kickstarter page and some serious heavy-hitter quotes:

We'd like to say we're helping to get the word out, but with 584 backers backing $12,000 so far in the first day, we'd be pretty amazed if this doesn't meet it's 100k goal by June 14th. Help make sure it does and help support what is clearly a straight up passion project by a local creative.

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Good luck Robin!

Puma's Dance Dictionary takes common messages and encodes them into dance sequences. Puma teamed up with some of the best freestyle dancers around to create this visual dictionary that translates words into dance moves. Puma is hoping that they might be creating a new visual vocabulary that allows us to quit talking and body rock our way into meaning.

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Now granted, some might argue that designing a t-shirt for a social media night giveaway is a harmless competition for the most beloved sports dynasty in St. Louis. And we wouldn't really be against something like that (in theory) per se, unless we happened to read the small print:

c) grants to Sponsor, MLBAM and each of their respective designees the perpetual and unlimited right and license to use, license, edit, modify, duplicate and/or create derivative works from his/her Entry throughout the world and in perpetuity, including, but not limited to, the right for Sponsor and/or MLBAM, as applicable, to publish, display, broadcast, distribute, reproduce, perform, create derivative works from and otherwise use and exploit the Entry via the Internet or any other interactive media, in stadium, on television, in print and/or any other media currently existing and hereafter developed and without limitation and without payment of any compensation to the participant or his/her heirs and successors, (i) on its own or as part of any audiovisual or other production; (ii) to advertise any products, programming or services of the MLB Entities or for any other advertising, marketing, publicizing and promotional purposes and in any materials related thereto; and/or (iii) for any other purpose whatsoever; and (d) release in perpetuity the Released Parties from any claims, demands, losses and liabilities of any nature arising out of or in any way connected with the Entry, and the use thereof as permitted hereunder, including, but not limited to, claims of false endorsement or infringement of rights of publicity or privacy. Nothing herein will obligate the MLB Entities to make any use of any of the rights set forth herein.

Thanks but no thanks Cards, we're going to throw this one back.