something unseen
something unseen I didn't have much time this month, so this is a very simple one. A series of 1-bit images, with some basic physics applied to each black...
this is not a story of escape
this is not a story of escape This month I made something filled with all my despair about the future present, together with the strange wonder of watching...
in hungry palaces
in hungry palaces This month's piece is a simple high score game. There are 10 targets; score points by stopping as close to their centre as possible. I...
bright embers
bright embers This month, a game that’s all about bouncing balls off things. It maybe shares a lineage with arpeggiate the world in that it’s a single-screen...
cymbal island
cymbal island For last month's arpeggiate the world, I wanted all the audio to be procedural (no samples), but I realised I didn't have any code for a...
arpeggiate the world
Content warning: This one has a lot of flashing colours! So I was thinking about arcade games, and how they're almost always focused on numbers, whether...
sleep well
I'm not religious, but if I were, my religion would be Bed. The core tenets of my faith would be: Bed is sacred Sleep is worship We have no need of...
a tangled land
a tangled land Via this tweet by @webbedspace, this month I found myself watching a couple of streamers play through this absolutely wild Mario 64 romhack...
holding pattern
This month's piece was born out of me reading Sean Costello's reverb design posts over at Valhalla DSP (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4). I've been coding...
the words notwithstanding
the words notwithstanding I think we're back!? the words notwithstanding is a text-based drawing tool/musical instrument that writes out the text of Robert...
Telemaphoneroo
Telemaphoneroo I'm still not back to regular here and then gone times yet, but I do have something cool to share. Telemaphoneroo is an online telephone game...
(here and then not gone) forest song
We're not back to normal yet for this newsletter, but I did make a game this month, for the launch jam of candle's bitsy clone bipsi. bipsi appealed because...
still on hiatus, sorry!
still on hiatus, sorry! I moved house last week, so here and then gone is very much still on hiatus. Here’s some links though: Further Reading A tale of...
...on hiatus...
...on hiatus... Well, I've finally hit a month where I just have no time to make something for here and then gone. There's too much happening right now, and...
observations of the landscape of my dreams
I said last month that the next few here and then gones were probably going to be quite pared-back, and true to my word this is probably the most pared-back...
sound in the margins
This month is a fairly simple one; each (real world) day you run it will give you a different image, with a procedurally generated title, all accompanied by...
the cathedral
In which I narrate a daydream of an alternative highlands, drawing on a BBC adaptation of one of Alan Garner's lesser works from my childhood, the...
every tentative echo
I was exploring reaction diffusion systems for a project I'm doing with biome, so this month's piece is a simple reaction diffusion drawing tool. I'm not...
weird fruits
So I was thinking about Bubble Bobble again, and I was watching some of Summoning Salt's speedrun history videos, and I guess this is the result? Bubble...
if nature is unjust
Every now and then I find myself obsessed with a particular collection of things, which all come together to feed into whatever I'm working on at the time....