More ➜The month that I wrote this, it was potentially the hottest month in human history. By the time you read this, you will have seen hotter. The month that I wrote this, there were fires and floods, there was mass suicides by whales. […] Link
I’ve got sound working in my roguelike experiment using howler.js and audiosprite. It’s really simple to implement. Audiosprite is a node app that sticks a folder of sounds together into a single sound with metadata for names and start times for each sound, and howler is a javascript audio player that gets around a lot of browser problems with playing sound. Working on sounds now.
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It’s a little confusing to keep calling these posts studio notes, since I no longer have a studio space. I’m sitting in a room at our place back in Austin that’s still filled with unpacked boxes. Settling back in is a slow process, and the last month has been really busy with moving a relative out of this space as we move back in. We also got a new kitten, who we are slowly acclimating to our other cat through a pet gate, carefully negotiating their two territories and resources (is there a strategy game idea somewhere in cats claiming or sharing litter boxes, food dishes, toys and sunbeams?)
Still don’t have a project tag for this roguelike experiment yet, but it seems like it might turn into an actual game. Now I’ve added doors, (some of which are locked and have paired, color coded keys,) inventory, enemies, and slightly janky click to pathfind to suppliment arrow key movement. I’m about to add sound with howler.js and audiosprite next.
A big thing that is missing is fog of war. I made kind of a mess getting my Grotto tiles working and it’s not as straightforward as it would be in a normal ascii rot.js game. I’ll give it some consideration once I get sound added.
More ➜At the intersection of language, art and technology lies computational poetry. A realm in which poet and programmer meet, it is an art form born for the digital age. […] Link
More ➜Military Intervention Project (MIP) The United States (US) ‘‘spends roughly as much on defense as the rest of the world put together…and remains the only country able to project military power globally. […] Link
