while starlings wait
A very simple Autumn sketch, inspired by the background of this Sloane Leong piece. Move the mouse to drop some leaves, left and right mouse buttons move the leaves. All accompanied by some sounds I recorded in my back garden.
Download while starlings wait
Controls: escape: quit; mouse move: drop leaves; left mouse: spin leaves; right mouse: push leaves
The Rules:
- The file at this link will be deleted 1 month from now (2/12/22).
- 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
I'm late to the party, but this post by Melos Han-Tani does an excellent job of dissecting something that has always bothered me about roguelite games. Plus 'treatmills' is an excellent way of describing these kind of games.
It took me a while to get through it, but I finally finished David Graeber and David Wengrow's The Dawn of Everything this month. Which is every bit as excellent, and wide-ranging (and somehow hopeful) as everyone has been saying. And it's filled with fascinating historical details, including this particularly horrifying note:
"Where exactly the Anthropocene begins is a scientific bone of contention. Most experts point to the Industrial Revolution, but some put its origins earlier, in the late 1500s and early 1600s. At that time, a global drop in surface air temperatures occurred - part of the 'Little Ice Age' - which natural forces can't explain. Quite likely, European expansion in the Americas played a role. With perhaps 90 per cent of the indigenous population eliminated by the effects of conquest and infectious disease, forests reclaimed regions in which terraced agriculture and irrigation had been practiced for centuries. In Mesoamerica, Amazonia and the Andes, some 50 million hectares of cultivated land may have reverted to wilderness. Carbon uptake from vegetation increased on a scale sufficient to change the Earth system and bring about a human-driven phase of global cooling."
The book's interest in (among other things) the origin of agriculture links well with this article by Sarah Laskow: America's Lost Crops Rewrite the History of Farming.
Good advice from my friend pokey
I like this demo: mercury: on
Andi McClure with an incredible deep dive into the baseline scene in Blade Runner 2049.
It's autumn and my garden is full of beech leaves. Hope you're keeping warm and safe. Take care.