If We Were Allowed To Visit
More ➜If We Were Allowed To Visit is an anthology of poems by Gemma Mahadeo rendered by Ian MacLarty.
Softdisk - Alfredo's Adventures
In middle school, a local grocery store helped donate Apple IIe computers to our school. As a result I got to attend a computer class in a lab full of Apple IIs. The teacher would treat the class by showing these little animations every week.
More ➜studio notes 1-1-24
Happy New Year.
Not sure what to tag today’s log, I’m still working with the tileset from Grotto, but it’s moving into other areas, like the cellular automata I started working with a few months ago. I’m starting to take all of the small javascript projects that use the tiles and bring them together into a single repository with a separate node.js app that would hypothetically get input from switches or other devices and then switch between/effect the small projects.
Everest Pipkin-The Fortunate Isles-Fragment Worlds, Walled Gardens & the games that are played there
More ➜Every game is a fragment world– bordered by the rules of its logic. These boundaries may be spoken out loud (don’t step on the cracks! the floor is lava!) or may be programmed (the end of traversable ground, the rim of the map, an invisible wall that plays a bonk sound effect when you walk into […] Link
studio notes 11-21-23
I haven’t been posting work notes while the world crumbles, but I’ve been keeping them locally. There’s been a few updates to the unnamed roguelike that are worth mentioning, the first is I’ve been experimenting with a creeping plant class, working off the idea that once the player dies the game keeps going, and plant growth would be nice. Other than that, lots of little tweaks, like refactored item and entity classes, arrows that can spread fire, fire destroying things, and I experimented with multiple player instances, which just worked on the first try.
The Interface of Kai Krause’s Software
More ➜Kai Krause [today: kai.sub.blue]was born 1957 in Dortmund. He came to California in 1976 with two friends. He worked as a musician for Disney Sound Effects; the sound track for “Star Trek: The Movie” was created on his synthesizers*. […] Link
