in the moment
More tile-based pixel art, this time with a little guy walking left to right across a glitchy tile landscape, periodically making choices that affect which tiles are added to the landscape, and adding or removing layers to the music.
This one didn't turn out quite how I was hoping, but I am enjoying working with tiles. I suspect next month's piece will continue the theme.
Download in the moment
Controls: escape: quit; up/right/down: start/make choice
The Rules:
- The file at this link will be deleted 1 month from now (1/6/24).
- All downloads are zipfiles containing a Windows executable.
- All source code and assets are included, licensed under the Anti-Capitalist Software License.
- As long as you abide by the license, you can do whatever you want with the download.
Further Reading
Ways of Speaking; an essay by sylvie, building off of Doug Wilson's concept of Dialogic Game Design.
Sticking with sylvie, she recently released a let's play of her playing through Tower of Druaga, and it's an incredible deep dive into what is happening in that game.
Echo & The Bunnymen: Broke My Neck: I'm not a big fan of Echo & The Bunnymen, but this one track is something else. The way the tension builds and builds until that sheet metal guitar just explodes outwards, drowning out everything else. An incredible example of tension and release.
Orange Cassidy vs Gentleman Jervis; in which the inventor of sloth style wrestling is rocked to sleep and tucked in with a blanket and a pillow in the middle of the ring.
Pankaj Mishraj: The Shoah after Gaza (I'm very late on this one, but it's been shared widely for a reason)
"There is too much evidence that the arc of the moral universe does not bend towards justice; powerful men can make their massacres seem necessary and righteous."
executable.graphics: A gallery of images created purely in code, with the constraint that the executable can have a filesize of no more than 4kB. Some of them are very cool.
the catamites on the greediness of interactivity in videogames.
zaratustra on what we mean when we say 'good code'
Hello! Hello! Hello!: Fiona Jones
A couple of Sharon Van Etten performances. One of those singers with a voice that just stops me in my tracks every time.
This next month is going to be mostly spent marking for me (and running a Playful Design workshop, come join us if you're in Dundee on the 18th!). Because my day job is teaching, I end up measuring years according to Abertay's academic year, and this has been a long year. Once that marking's out of the way I plan on taking every bit of annual leave I am entitled to. I hope you're doing well out there, and are able take all the time off that you need.