🌾 ivan 🌱 @ivan@coolkids.house

Forest Noise Amplifier

This theatre apparently stored the extra letters for its marquee on the roof. Might as well quote Shakespeare, for the small audience that might notice it.

Shot through a window that hadn't been cleaned in a while.

Original at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/10907738566

#photography

new game release: That Lonesome Valley is a short retro-style gay cowboy romance game about walking, sheepherding, and kissing, inspired by Brokeback Mountain

info + free download / play in browser here: https://radiatoryang.itch.io/that-lonesome-valley
(cw: page is "safe" but the actual game does contain some gay sex)

instead of playing the game, you can also just read my artist statement where I spoil everything and talk about my influences and intent: https://www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2022/12/that-lonesome-valley-as-cowboy-coin.html (sfw)

Here are some screen grabs of Nintendo dev tools from the 90s. Made for the Sony NEWS workstation by SRD this software was called CAD-TOOL and 3DCAD. #gamedev #retrogaming

Meandering river

My buddy Jake Weidner is organizing Experimental Games Workshop at GDC this year and their call for submissions just went live:

https://www.experimentalgameworkshop.org

Their widening their scope of presentations/projects so def give it a look!

Made a game with @patricktraynor for Astra's Thinky Games Are For Everyone game jam!
https://patrickgh3.itch.io/frog-wizard-gem-quest
Check it out and enjoy :)

Absolutely insane new ZX Spectrum demo:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=eEOv-OCil58

"Gespenst"

Rendered with MRMO-STITCH.

announcement:

here is a new open source alternative to perlin noise: octavia noise

it is a lightweight fractal noise algorithm. it is generalizable to n dimensions. it is not based on gridded points, and does not exhibit linear artifacts.

this is suitable for terrain and other procgen work where organicity and reducing grid artifacts are important, especially situations where slope artifacts are important. the initial js implementation takes 4x as long as value noise.

https://github.com/lorenSchmidt/fractal_cell_noise