this luminous shoal
This month I wanted to see what would happen if I overlaid 3 games on top of each other. I didn't have as much time to work on it as I wanted, so it's really just a disjointed, disconnected mess of a thing. Enjoy!
Also, I spent some time this month refactoring my game engine. I paid off some of the long-standing technical debt and moved the libraries I rely on into a 'third-party' directory. This means that, in the unlikely event that you want to take one of these here and then gone projects and mod it, that should be a lot easier now. Everything you need will be in the zip file; just open the solution in Visual Studio (it does mean that the downloads will be bigger than before, as I'm including all the necessary libraries).
Download this luminous shoal
Controls: escape: cursor keys: move
The Rules:
- The file at this link will be deleted 1 month from now (2/9/23).
- 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
The drama of a 10 metre high diving board (Linus and Frida!)
Oma Keeling on game databases:
"The will to archive in the ways that most are taught to archive is not an innocent one, it is one of accumulation and the continuation of imperialist and capitalist thought. It is a history of racism and deprivation and destruction and the perfection of history into an art dominated by a handful of countries."
I love this concept of a 'Defense of Design' document.
The tiktok NPC streamer thing is absolutely wild (and surely utterly exhausting for the streamers!). And Robert Yang: "if AI remains unregulated, can take ownership over anything -- why wouldn't you pretend to be an AI?"
I love it when musicians put as much care into the imagery of their performance as the music.
A long thread on mastodon from John Bull explaining the context behind Elon Musk's deeply embarrassing twitter rebranding.
It was the Generation Analog conference on analogue games this month. A couple of highlights: Jeeyon Shim's keynote on pareidolia, outdoor education and game design, and PS Berge's talk on Ludoarsony.
"Welcome to the future. Sabotage it."
After 8(?) years, Crypt Underworld is finally out, and it is magnificent. Paolo Pedercini described it as the Elden Ring of DIY games, and I mean, yeah. Just an astonishing piece of work.
As I write this I can see bits of moss and old leaves falling past my window, accompanied by tapping and rapping sounds on the roof. I guess the magpies are hunting for bugs(?) in the gutters that I really should have cleared out by now. Or maybe they're just playing. Either way, I hope things are good with you, and you're keeping safe out there.