Get ready to play, learn, and create. From arcade-inspired games and alien fishing holes, to Internet time travel and ambient music, the newest apps in Airspace have something for everyone. Plus, three newly available trial apps – so you can try them for free before buying the full versions.

The 4D Finger Tennis

Take your game to the next dimension. Control a futuristic paddle as you battle the computer for tennis supremacy. The 4D Finger Tennis features intuitive controls, rich graphics, and fast gameplay.

Free for Windows »

Galactic Asteroid Fighter

Outer space just got a lot more graphic. Inspired by classic arcade shooters, Galactic Asteroid Fighter throws you into the cockpit of a spaceship – in the middle of a dangerous asteroid field! Destroy the asteroids and watch out for enemy aliens.

Download for Mac and Windows »

aliZen Fishing

This isn’t your grandfather’s fishing hole. Cast your line and reel in alien fish across 4 chapters and more than 50 unique scenes. Collect bait, catch bigger fish, and unlock Zen mode for a relaxing fishing experience.

Download for Mac »

Muse

Create your own ambient music. Reach into a world of interactive cubes that let you compose and perform beautiful ambient sounds – including chords, drums, natural sounds, echo effects, and more. Muse lets you record and save your creations to enjoy whenever you want.

Download for Mac »

Time Travel

Spin through the past, present, and future. Time Travel is an Internet time machine that lives in your browser. Dive into a unique photo browser that lets you explore historical events and see how everything from food to bicycles evolves through time. (To use web apps like Time Travel, be sure to check “Allow Web Apps” in the Leap Motion Control Panel, and use Google Chrome.)

Reach out on the web »

TomBraining The Gallery Trial

Expand your cultural horizons. TomBraining The Gallery is a unique tour through more than 250 classical art and music masterpieces – plus games and puzzles to challenge your knowledge.

Free for Mac and Windows »

AirInput Trial

Take control of your computer. AirInput lets you point and click with ease by placing the cursor in your fingers. With the trial version, you get the full premium experience for a limited time.

Free for Mac and Windows »

Skywriting Alphabets Trial

Discover the joy of writing. The trial version of Skywriting Alphabets lets your child practice their writing skills with random letters at their own pace. Download the full version to unlock three more gameplay modes, and watch your child learn the letters of the alphabet.

Free for Mac and Windows »

In the olden days, before the rise of high-speed Internet, LAN parties were the best way to bring PC gamers together. Now, as gamers tire of being cursed out by foul-mouthed 12-year-olds, LAN parties are making a comeback. Fighting for glory and prizes, they come together under the same roof, often for days at a stretch.

Last month, hundreds of gamers converged on the wired cavern of Baselan 26 in Winnipeg for the thrill of digital competition. Amidst tournaments including StarCraft 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Minecraft “hunger games,” and a retro Super Smash Bros. throwdown, players also reached into tech demos like the Oculus Rift and Leap Motion Controller.

Naturally, things quickly became competitive, with players vying for supremacy in Vitrun Air – a time-driven platformer that lets you pilot a sphere past obstacles and enemies:

Organized by AYBOnline, one of the largest gaming organizations in Canada, BaseLAN brings together gamers from across the country. Recently, we caught up with the organizers to find out how it went.

For a large-scale LAN party, Vitrun Air’s simplicity was its strength. While many games in the Airspace Store involve complex goals or unique gameplay mechanics, Vitrun Air riffs on a classic format – getting a ball across a platform to reach an objective. It’s a race against time.

“Once people played around for a few minutes, they were challenging each other to see who could beat the same level faster,” says Aaron Kostuik, one of the event organizers. The atmosphere completely opened up – cheering each other, laughing at missteps, or just goofing around in general.”

“With the Leap Motion Controller, they could not only beat their opponent on a computer-based level, but intriguingly, on a physical level as well.” Aaron anticipates future events where 3D interaction could be combined with virtual reality or multiplayer competitions with driving sims or first-person shooters. In fact, AYBOnline has a lot to look forward to – their next BaseLAN event will be taking place at Central Canada Comic Con, which attracts over 40,000 people each year.

Do you have any fond memories of LAN partying? Which games would you take into one – the multiplayer base-capturing Volantes, anarchic wall-smasher Boom Ball, or something else altogether? If you’re playing Leap Motion games at a party, we’d love to hear about it. Let us know in the comments or hit us up on Facebook and Twitter.

Every day, we’re surrounded by invisible connections that create an alternate landscape of data highs and lows. This week in Airspace, reach into five invisible cities around the world and watch the terrain warp over time. Plus, four new games, a musical journey through the stars, and an app to help you hand-eye coordination.

Jack Lumber

Got an axe to grind? His granny was killed by trees, and now Jack Lumber is out for revenge. Slice logs and massacre the forest with Jack’s supernatural lumberjack powers and razor-sharp wit. Drink magical syrups to gain power and muscle your way through skill and logic puzzles.

Download for Mac and Windows »

Jumping Line

Now that’s a game trailer! Created by one of the youngest developers in Airspace, Jumping Line is a minimalistic jump ’n’ run game. Guide your bouncing line through hundreds of levels, or create your own challenges with the level editor.

Download for Mac and Windows »

Invisible Cities

What will you discover in the data? Dive into the digital landscape around you with Invisible Cities, a social network map that pulls geocoded data from Twitter and Instagram. Activity happening in real time appears as individual markers, while aggregate activity over the last 24 hours creates the underlying terrain – with hills and valleys of data ebbs and flows.

Download free for Mac »

MusicalMe Motion

Conduct your own musical journey through the stars. With MusicalMe Motion, each finger controls a unique note, so you can create chords with your hands as the universe responds to the music by changing colors.

Download for Mac »

SodaSurfer

Soar into space with a fully carbonated superhero. Shake a soda bottle to maximum pressure and fire Mr. Soda into the air to defeat the evil Dr. Bitter and his ray machine. Keep your balance, dodge obstacles, and grab powerups on your way to the top.

Download for Mac »

Flappy Rocket

Flap, don’t tap. Wave your hands and fly through the skies in Flow Studios’ riff on a popular mobile game. Flappy Rocket takes you on a side-scrolling adventure through narrow gaps between columns.

Download for Mac and Windows »

Hand Eye Coordination

It does exactly what it says on the tin. Move a red dot around the screen to overlap a target dot in this experimental free app, designed to help you improve… well, you can probably guess! Compete with your friends for the highest score.

Download free for Mac »

Like many developers, Chris Galzerano is a creature of the late night. Fuelled by quick afternoon power naps, he typically codes straight into the early hours of the morning before going to bed. After all, he has school in the morning.

One of three young developers with apps in the Airspace Store, Chris is the creator of Sky Muffins – an arcade-like game about a muffin who has mastered the art of space travel. It’s a concept that he first developed at 14, and his inspiration was simple. “There weren’t any games about skydiving muffins,” he says, “so I made one.”

Chris broke into app development at a young age, creating a pet rock app for iOS at 13, and later building a complete prototype of Sky Muffins for the iPad. After succumbing to the great time sink of 2012 – Minecraft – he started experimenting with the Leap Motion Controller as part of our early developer community. Excited by the prospect of developing on a brand new platform, he began to refine Sky Muffins for Leap Motion.

“When I started making Sky Muffins, I had a pretty lazy attitude,” Chris says, “but by the end, I was a better developer, and my attitude changed from lazy to inspired.”

Sky Muffins was among the first apps in the Airspace Store in July 2013, and has since garnered positive reviews for its engaging gameplay and unusual style. More recently, Chris has been working on Playr, an app that lets you create your own games based off classic addictive game types.

If Henning Steinbock could travel back in time to give his 13-year-old self just one piece of advice about building games, it would be “get your friends to try it.” In his four years of app development so far, he has learned that in order to make an app people will love, you can’t just code for yourself. You have to code for the person next to you. You have to get inside their brain.

Steinbock, 17, is the brain behind Jumping Line, a minimalistic new jump ’n’ run game in Airspace that lets you create your own levels, as well as parse through hundreds of levels from other players. It’s easy to understand, hard to master, and a match made in heaven for Leap Motion technology. With a version of the app already optimized and released for iOS, Henning managed to Leap-enable the app in a single afternoon.

After high school graduation, Henning hopes to work as a game developer, a pilot, or both.

Simon Nilsson, age 17, began developing applications just two years ago. It started with a love for Flash games. But for Simon, simply playing the games wasn’t enough. He wanted to know what was going on under the hood. He wanted to pull the code apart, then put it back together his way. He started tinkering with iOS. Desiring to pioneer into an entirely new playground for app development, he found the Leap Motion Controller, and with it a newfound sense of creative freedom.

Simon’s Airspace app Qubic takes us through a maze of oncoming obstacles, using the Leap Motion Controller for an intuitive and natural way of steering. Every 20 seconds, you level up, the game gets harder, and the soundtrack intensifies. It’s undeniably addictive.

Once Simon finishes high school in Sweden, he plans to study game development, with the hope of meeting like-minded engineers who share his ambition to challenge the status quo of app development and create unforgettable experiences in three dimensions.

Are you a young developer hoping to land your creation in Airspace? We want to hear from you! Tweet at @LeapMotion, @LeapMotionDev, or join the conversation on our community forum.

Let’s face it – sometimes a computer just isn’t enough. Whether you’re playing a friendly game or crushing your enemies into dust, there’s nothing like pitting your wits and skills against another gamer. From shooting down enemy pilots and smashing orcs with online multiplayer, to playing competitive arcade, pub, and puzzle games at home, here are 11 Airspace games that you can play with your friends and family.

Online Multiplayer

Volantes

Soar through an alien world in this free online multiplayer game that puts you in the cockpit of an underwater ship with up to nine other pilots. Shoot down your enemies and capture bases to bring your team to victory.

Download free for Mac and Windows »

Orc’s Arena

Fight and defend against monsters and cast up to six spells in this free game from the creators of Sortee and Seasons. Along with a short single-player story, you can test your mettle in the multiplayer arena against up to eight other orc warriors from around the world.

Download free for Mac and Windows »

Paper Football FlickIT

Suffering from post-season football withdrawal? Flick a paper football and go for a touchdown with Paper Football FlickIT. Featuring online multiplayer and a two-player hotseat, you can play your friends around the world or right next to you.

Download for Mac and Windows »

Local Multiplayer

Want to challenge your opponents in person so you can revel in their defeat? Keep your friends close (and your enemies closer) with these games featuring local multiplayer options.

Escape Velocity

Speed through the narrow corridors of an exploding mothership and dodge asteroids in Escape Velocity, a high-speed spaceship flying game that includes two-player mode and a global scoreboard.

Download for Mac and Windows »

Shimsham

Designed exclusively for two-player battles, this free competitive puzzle lets you crush your opponent by controlling gravity to drop falling blocks. Score points and smash the competition to a unique classic jazz soundtrack.

Download for Mac and Windows »

PWN9

PWN9 puts a new spin on the classic two-player arcade game – every hit splits the ball in two! Overwhelm your enemy, score points, and use special balls to gain advantage.

Download for Windows »

Darts Party

Play the classic pub game and test your aim without piercing holes in your wall. Along with realistic graphics and immersive gameplay, Darts Party features a local multiplayer option that will liven up your next house party.

Download for Mac and Windows »

Super Punch Bowl

Take control and smash the pins with this futuristic bowling experience that lets you alter the ball’s trajectory as it flies down the lane. Play solo or challenge up to eight friends.

Download for Mac and Windows »

Marionette Zoo

Express your imagination with a free classic puppet theatre that puts the strings in your hands. Marionette Zoo features four exotic locations and several puppet animals, including Bird, Monkey, Octopus, and T-Rex. With the ability to control two puppets at the same time, you and your little one can create your own stories at the same time.

Download free for Mac and Windows »

Cyx

Challenge your friend or the computer to a battle of the brains with this free puzzle game, where you must complete one of four shapes before your opponent does.

Download free for Mac and Windows »

Derigo

Think in three dimensions. Derigo is a mind-bending reimagination of tic-tac-toe that takes place in a four-by-four cube. After each turn, you can rotate rows and columns to confuse and confound your opponent. But be careful – one wrong move can turn potential victory into defeat.

Download for Mac and Windows »

Imagine reaching into a song and tweaking it with your fingers, without anything getting in the way. In our latest spotlight video, electronic musician DJ SelArom shows how it’s possible with the Leap Motion Controller and GecoMIDI.

GecoMIDI is a powerful music app that gives musicians like DJ SelArom the power to reach out and control the flow of their music. Designed for live performance and quick configuration by music professionals, it allows each hand to access a wide variety of customizable control streams. GecoMIDI with Leap Motion control works alongside DJ SelArom’s existing setup – augmenting traditional controls to create something new.

Moving his hands above the device, DJ SelArom is able to create a smooth electro-industrial sound without touching anything. It’s a fluid, expressive way to make music with natural hand movements:

Whether you’re playing your own music or playing someone else’s music, it’s a written track. It’s a done deal, it’s going to come out the way it was produced. Leap Motion lets you add a layer on top of that – so that every time you do it, it’s going to be different. You’re not just controlling the music, you’re now part of the music.

How do you like to express your creativity with the Leap Motion Controller? Let us know on Facebook and Twitter.

We live in a designed world – where form and function are woven together into our everyday lives. From computer animation and architecture to complex machines and tiny gadgets, much of our world is conceived in 3D design programs like Autodesk Maya before it takes physical shape.

Within this 3D space of pure design, industry professionals are using the Leap Motion Controller to push past the flat interface to design and manipulate models. In the video below, you can see how the Autodesk Maya plugin in the Airspace Store works with Leap Motion for a unique design experience:

By augmenting the traditional mouse and keyboard, the Leap Motion Controller gives designers the ability to reach into their design space and play with its contents. They can grab, push, pull, and mold their creations into new forms and shapes. This ability unlocks new possibilities for 3D design – adding a new level of reality and flow to the virtual spaces where they bring their ideas to life.

“When I found out that you can track all your fingers, that’s pretty amazing. You actually have more control,” says Landis Fields, a visual development artist at a major film digital effects studio. “When you start using it, you quickly realize how sensitive it is. Things that you’re thinking in your mind can happen so much faster.”

All around the world, designers and artists are using 3D tools like Autodesk Maya to create and mold their designs with Leap Motion interaction. What would you like to create? Let us know on Facebook and Twitter.

Along with playing and learning, games are an amazing way to tell stories. With the 6 newest titles in the Airspace Store, you can stretch your mind, enjoy classic games of hand-eye coordination, or explore a unique photographic experience through dreams.

Dots

Inspired by traditional brain-training games, Dots for Windows challenges you to draw unique shapes in a single gesture – without drawing over the same lines twice. Want to try a free version first? You can download Dots Trial before buying the full app. Get the app »

TRAUMA

Experience the dreams of a young woman who survives a car accident in this award-winning indie game for Mac and Windows, recently adapted for the Leap Motion Controller. Discover different aspects of her identity by using gestures to interact with the dreamscape. Get the app »

Chuck Out

Chuck Out is a free Windows game that tests your recycling knowledge in a fast-paced race against the clock. Catch flying garbage, find the right can, and toss it in – before your time runs out. Get the app »

Darts Party

Test your dart-throwing skills with this classic pub game, now available with Leap Motion control on Mac and Windows. Darts Party features single and local multiplayer modes. Get the app »

GeoCrazy

Explore the globe and stretch your knowledge of world geography and history with this educational game for Windows. Get the app »

Cueb

Take your pool game to the cosmos with Cueb, a free physics-based 3D cue sport for Mac and Windows suspended in deep space. Strike planets into portals with your radioactive Quasar until they all disappear. Get the app »

Since July, we’ve seen lots of innovative performances from musicians using the Leap Motion Controller. This weekend, Uriel Yehezkel followed up from his last performance created with GecoMIDI and Leap Motion to drop the bass on some dubstep. Check it out in the video below:

A producer and DJ from Jerusalem, Yehezkel favors slick, cinematic mixes that can make your hair stand on end. Like many musicians who have worked with the Leap Motion Controller, Yehezkel says that 3D interaction adds a whole new element to his rig. When you combine traditional tools with the expressive capacities of the Leap Motion Controller, “you won’t leave your studio for a week.”

"You can really feel the parameters you’re changing with your hands. You can flow with the music and express it with your body. Controlling more than 10 parameters simultaneously with both hands provides you with full control over the construction of the song, the emotion, and the energy.”

GecoMIDI has quickly become a popular choice among digital musicians for its power and versatility. Designed for live performance and quick configuration during rehearsal, it provides a bridge between the Leap Motion Controller and music setups.

What do you think about the possibilities for Leap Motion and live music control? Post your thoughts on our Facebook page or let us know on Twitter.

Bernard Drax is the man behind the Drax Files, a mixed reality YouTube channel that combines real-life interviews with in-game machinima to showcase the creations of Second Life. Launched out of Linden Lab in 2003, Second Life allows designers, developers, musicians, social activists, and historical reenactors across the world to pull ideas directly out of their imaginations and into virtual reality. The software is embedded with 3D modeling tools, allowing seasoned innovators like Drax to push the boundaries of space, form, and light. According to Drax, the capacity for immersive navigation in true 3D space has been missing in the span of his seven-year residency. Until now.

Enter Leap Motion. Drax pre-ordered our controller months before its release, intrigued by Leap Motion technology’s transformative possibilities in the world of Second Life. Upon receiving the device, he quickly mapped out GameWAVE configurations for his dreadlocked avatar, decked out with an Oculus Rift and blinking LED lights. Drax was immediately taken by the level of accuracy and expression transmitted straight from his hands into the digital space of his pirate village. In this video demo, Drax demonstrates how he’s using Leap Motion + GameWAVE to take his Second Life navigation into the third dimension, whether flying, walking, running, or teleporting home:

Drax sees enormous design potential with Leap Motion for his Second Life peers seeking next-generation immersion. For example, fashion aficionados could use the controller to stretch, pinch, rotate, and render gowns and elaborate headpieces that far transcend the laws of gravity. Time travelers who have transformed the digital space into the analog Weimar-era world of 1920s Berlin, could hand-crank a gramophone or reach out for cigarette holder. Architects could parse visions of urban development together in real time and 3D space.

“For these dedicated residents, the avatar is not just a separate pixelated entity, but a true extension of themselves with which they navigate the digital space.” Drax explains. “It is a world solely made and nourished by its residents – therefore truly only their imagination can be the limit!”

Have an awesome Second Life configuration with GameWAVE? We’d love to hear about your experience! Tweet us, find us on Facebook, or shoot us an email at social@leapmotion.com.