I’ve been largely offline recently but I’m breaking that pattern to let you know that Mythmatch, a game I was *so* lucky to work on, comes out on Friday!
It would mean to world to me if you could check it out and tell your friends about it!!
@ianmccausland.bsky.social Great letter to the editor today Ian. I appreciate all the work you and others are doing to make our streets safer for everyone!
set in motion a self-saving world
- stewart brand
youraislopbores.me
Larp as an AI. Answer questions in a silly way! Draw pictures!
Agreed. I got so stuck on many games growing up, sometimes putting them aside for months. When returning to them I'd occasionally have an epiphany and it would feel so great. Other times friends would give advice on how to proceed.
Feels incredibly modern for work created in the 70s by an artist born in 1908.
It's not just casual users that are anthropomorphising AI – professionals, the media, and law firms are doing it, too. What kind of problems is that causing?
My debut analysis for @techpolicypress.bsky.social
Excited for you. DS9 is amazing. I followed it up by watching BSG which was a nice pairing.
Delayed gratification loop!
I'm a game design genius
Congrats Mike! Exciting times.
Gen AI can be great for tools and toys that allow for exploration and experimentation. "Software for one" where the usage isn't mission critical. Things we likely couldn't have justified the time for in the past.
This is cool, and imo toys/playgrounds like this are a good use case for AI code gen.
You gotta check this out!
Four of my (current and former) Red River College Game Dev students teamed up with a musician at the most recent PegJam game jam to create a goblin saxophone improvisational musical experience.
Home row keys play notes. Up and down arrows change octaves.
If you enjoy, you can follow it up with the hour-long The Cube.
Time Piece is an experimental short film directed, written, produced by and starring a 29-year-old Jim Henson. Jazzy.
It's a cool game! Love the drone shots. I was obsessed with the city of Winnipeg orthographic photos for a while: data.winnipeg.ca/City-Plannin...
Hey #Winnipeg have you played pegguessr.fun?
Pinpoint the locations of drone shots of Peg city.
Made by @ohryan.ca.
Still obsessed with this mix.
Play at loud volumes on a system with BASS!
two dragons dancing together!
JHVH
I first read Dragon Song back in grade 7 at the suggestion of my English teacher. I went on to read the series and a few of the other Pern books. Was fun revisiting it after 35 years.
I really enjoyed Gritty City! I can only imagine how much work went into all the interviews and then sculpting those interviews into a coherent timeline/narrative. Well done!
Did you have a fav fiction read from last year?
Winter is read-season for me since it's when I take the bus to work.
I read 22 books last year. 7 of them were on my Kobo e-reader and the rest were deadtree format. 12 of them were fiction. 10 were non-fiction.
My yearly overview: www.stungeye.com/archive/by_d...
Gemini 3.1 Prompt: Use p5.js to create an image of a pelican riding a bicycle.
Was wondering if they're perhaps specifically training for SVG images. So here's the same prompt in ai studio, but using p5.js. Similar, but less detailed.
Runnable sketch: editor.p5js.org/stungeye/ske...
Thinking trace: gist.github.com/stungeye/e93...
Five definitions of "Game": www.informit.com/articles/art...
Including:
- unnecessary obstacles
- interesting choices
- structured conflict
- a playful attitude
- ambiguous, endogenously meaningful decisions
A water-mixable oil painting on paper that has a purple primer. The painting size is 5”x7”. The subject is a pond full of lily pads and three pink lotus flowers. The top half is pixelated and the bottom has been painted realistically.
Finished my third painting of 2026! 🥳
#sciart
"To play a game is to attempt to achieve a specific state of affairs, using only means permitted by rules, where the rules prohibit use of more efficient in favor of less efficient means, and where the rules are accepted just because they make possible such activity." - Bernard Suits
"Playing a game is the voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles."
Bernard Suits from The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia
A hand holds Kate DiCamillo's novel The Magician's Elephant. The cover art shows an el̴ephant in b͟lue-grey tones with g̷o̸l̴d̷e̷n̴ highlights. The pachy̸d̷e̶r̵m̴'̶s̸ ̴f̵a̷c̴e̴ ̸e̵m̷e̴r̴g̷e̵s̴ ̸f̶r̵o̸m̷ ̷s̴h̷a̵d̶o̷w̴,̴ ̵i̷t̸s̵ ̶t̸u̴s̸k̷ c̶̢͚̈́u̷͓͆r̴̰̚v̵͎̊i̶̙͝n̷̬͘g̴̰͆ ģ̸̻̔͜ë̸̫́n̴̳̈́t̸̰͋l̸͉̎y̶͎̓.̵̜̒ ̸̣͐
We must ask ourselves these questions
as often as we dare.
How will the world change
if we do not question it?
― Kate DiCamillo, The Magician's Elephant
(Reading to the kiddos is still such a joy. Oh the worlds we've explored!)
