All communication has rules. Writing has rules as down to its bare bones. The bare bones being the size, weight, color, contrast, case, and position. These bare bones allow for a better communication for a piece of writing as like this page we know the title is the title because it is a larger size …
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An interesting piece of interactive art that I found is called 10,000 Moving Cities Same but Different by Marc Lee. This is an augmented piece that shows real time(well about as real time as you can get without going to place cameras/get access to cameras and audio all around these places) cities projected onto basic …
So many articles and essays about game design start with Super Mario Bros level 1-1 and this was no exception. Mostly these point out the way the character is used to control the way the game plays out and how players can shape the game. Other games included in the discussion are Castlevania and the …
https://homepages.utoledo.edu/apotts3/bloom/ Cherry blossoms are only in bloom for a short period of time which is the bases for this project. Originally each interaction would make things drastically different but I changed the way the trees appear and the less noisy background elements.
Come Alive is a 2D game created in Unity about mannequins coming alive inside a factory. The point of the game is to collect the partial mannequins and to take them to the trash in order to clean up the factory. The game ends by collecting enough of the mannequins.
I created a p5.js project that involved circles growing and shrinking and I called it Growth. Main critique was simply about making the message understood as I initially wanted it to be in a delving between worlds vibe but it came across more as growth. Some things I will change are the colors as they …
Brainstorming is necessary with all creative work. One way to make brainstorming work well is by listening to your subconscious and allowing it to voice its ideas and concepts. Allowing those ideas to come to flurision isn’t the goal the goal is to get creative thoughts going. The main thing is to take those weird …
Minimalist game design is a quicker way to delve deep into the lore/story and choices in a game. The concept of minimalism also allows for more abstract worlds. These worlds don’t need to be photorealistic which allows an artist to play with their own visual style and literacy. Minimalist games are not simple in their …
Processing is a way for people to work together to create codes that are creative. Your code becomes a sketchbook. Sketchbooks in this case can also become something more fleshed out and are simply lines of code that create imagery. Birds flying together in the video made me want to try to remake the same …
I created a surealist cityscape with JavaScript (p5.js). This is on the site called p5.js.org so feel free to make your own stuff. If you want to see how I did this its below. function setup() { createCanvas(800, 600); background(100,200,20); } function draw() { strokeWeight(0); stroke(200,400,20); rect(0,400,100,200); rect(90,350,75,250); rect(150,380,100,220); rect(350,300,90,350); triangle(700,0,850,0,750,60); strokeWeight(0); beginShape(); vertex(40,30); vertex(300,60); …
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