today i got decker working inside of Unreal so that i can show hypercard poems while you explore the world.
yay for having bitsy and hypercard in a big 3D game!
(the effect is beautiful because it really feels like you're experiencing the environment in different contexts)
#GameDev #IndieGameDev #GameArt #Poetry #Surreal #Horror #WIP #IndieDev
[A short gameplay video showing you walking up the side of a cliff. There is some grass on the left side and a very steep cliff to the right. As you are walking the screen glitches and you see a hypercard interface pop up. You click through it as it illustrates the path up using black and white dithered images.](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/094/277/431/824/322/original/5657082f81f2d229.mp4)
screenshots from work today... cursed bramble, for the outer world.
it moves slightly too, making it kind of like a twisting pile of snakes or worms.
this is the cursed area that you don't want to go to.
Today's irrefutable proof that parallel realities are constantly collapsing on each other: If "The Wolf House" had existed in this reality prior to a couple weeks ago, I CERTAINLY would've heard of it, and seen it, and also have heard about Colonia Dignidad, a super-evil real place that serves as sort of a backdrop for the movie.
Anyway, now "The Wolf House" exists in this reality, and now I've seen it, and I highly recommend it.
Hi! I'm Hakan, 34 years old speculative fiction admirer who likes to spend his time reading, watching and playing different but related to imaginary things.
I don't have time to play tabletop roleplaying games or video games these days but keep planning sessions with my friends and on my own :)
7000+ people marched today in defense of culture as STOP in Porto, the largest DIY Studio space in Europe, where 500 artists work daily, was forcibly evicted by police on the 18th of July.
Official news media (and police) reported 1.5 thousand people, but the organization believes we were somewhere between 5 to 7 thousand people on the street.
The chaos erupted earlier this week, when a police opperation reminiscent of the ones for the “war on drugs”, a much larger and deadly matter, with 200+ “opperations” in the last months, with heavily armed gendarme, represses the neighbouhoods of the city.
At 22:30, the police wanted to re-open the street. Clearly, people were in the street, so the police sent 8 motorcicles and then a city “trash cleaner” truck came. The people were calm, but said clearly that in a way, they didnt like it. Reminiscent of struggles of the city, were people chanted “O Porto é nosso” , “A cidade é nossa” The city is ours, and will be until we die.
This forced eviction “despejo”, of Centro Comercial Stop, has sent shockwaves across the region. due to media coverage, the city hall is backing up, while experimenting new forms of social control.
Meanwhile, the city is in a war like state.
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About a few papers on fire at the police headquarters:
(this part is more emotional than trustable, but it was fun!)
As to anything that may be reported as fire, there was no fire, the firefighters went to an air-conditioner and applied a red can of firestopper for 7 seconds, clearly having fun, while onlookers cheered. then the hole commitive left. the police seemed “not aware” of the situation at all.
Very important to note that no apparent motive has been given as to why any of these public “agencies” have behaved like this…
The firefighters were put by polititians on high alert, on a meeting that happened precisely during the protest, because of STOP’s “fire risk”. but in the end, they went at midnight in a huge and first reponse operation, to the police station instead…
The police station ( which had a small fire going in their balcony, a couple papers were apparently thrown) but the motive for such a large intervention is that the city hall, in trying to deviate our capacity to see that they are in fact, doing these actions, like selling the whole neighbourhood, in a “contest” of “ideas” and accepting a poor idea, out of only three(!)?(!) put the firefighters on extremely high alert, on that same day. Because for years they say that STOP is prone to fire, and they want to “avoid a catastrophe”.
So it was really fun when three huge fire trucks and several ambulances were coming to raid the police station!
As to why it is happening, it’s being called speculation, traffic in nfluence, and lots of money. artists are the tip of the iceberg, in what may well become a huge scandall in the city.
The plans are public, they want to sell the neighbourhood for €45M+, an architecture project has been approved. Now they axpected the artists to just accept being kicked out, but the fight has just started.
Already a series of scandals has been erupting, with the president of one of the artists association being called out for selling the artists to power. Its all part of a larger scheme to make the huge multimillion euro project happen, and kick out the punks…
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firefighters at the police station after large demo against the closure of STOP
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send a trash collecting truck to disperse the crowd, workers celebrate with protesters
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22h30 arrives. the road was blocked several times
I’ve driven 10 hours today through a swirling maelstrom of trauma memories and have ended up sharing a small chalet in Richards Bay with my octogenarian father, soothed to sleep by his snoring and the distant sound of waves crashing while I contemplate a #bilingual#IsiZulu keynote that I will be delivering at 9:15 tomorrow, on the topic of Forgotten #indigenous Sustainabilities. #surreal#pastmewouldntbelievethis
Matters have come to a head, and we've had to take out a court injunction banning the use of the word "surreal" pending the outcome of an enquiry. The natural world doing what the natural world does is by definition not surreal. We here at Surreal Towers are deeply concerned by what we see as increased usage of the word by parties inexperienced in surreality. This basking shark was not wearing a hat. #surreal
today i made this beautiful artistic post processing effect that highlights the night sky for the ending area of the open world. it fades beautifully too when the player enters the space!
i wanted something that looks artistic without being too cliche, so emphasis on the sky.
~ #ScreenshotSaturday#GameArt#IndieDev#GameDev#IndieGameDev#Surreal#UnrealEngine
big moment! got all the assets for the center of the open world, the neighborhood, placed! all the houses, trees, grasses, details... it's beautiful too. just tweaking some of the performance now (making sure all LOD's are setup and stuff)...
finished my first house today!
modeling buildings is good and doable. :O
it's nice & surreal. the houses will be pitch dark. if you manage to walk inside it's another sky...keeping it simple for the beginning until i have all the other buildings for the abandoned village together...
~ #GameDev#IndieGameDev#GameArt#IndieDev#WIP#Surreal#Haunted
Drawings inspired by Goldfrapp's Felt Mountain. Track No 6, Felt Mountain. For Felt Mountain's Felt Mountain, I have drawn a felt mountain, which symbolises a felt mountain.