Dec 9th, 2011
I’ve refreshed the front page. The new design sports a rather subtle effect that nonetheless took me a fair number of hours to pull off, in part because I’m still not that familiar with javascript, but also because it was far more complicated than I originally estimated. It may not work as it’s supposed to in browsers other than Firefox and Safari’s latest versions, since it hasn’t been tested beyond those.
The previous design’s been archived.
Nov 17th, 2011
This post should have been written in September, but laziness kept me. The video you see above I only got around to finishing last night. Depicted in the video is an art installation for Centro Cultural Palacio La Moneda’s freshly opened art and technology space. I undertook programming duties in the project which I was invited to by Sebastián Skoknic and Francisco Fuentes.
The work uses an ordinary webcam to detect user movement, which causes stuff to happen on the screen under five distinct modes that the user can switch between via a menu that’s also motion-activated, located on the far right side of the physical space. This menu was poorly conceived, and causes plenty of user confusion due to how easy it is to obstruct with the body, which would cause random buttons being constantly activated. There are plans to scrap it in favor of a physical interface located on the ground.
An interesting feature is that it silently captures images as seen by the camera every thirty minutes. These might get collated later on and used for a video depicting users interacting with the installation over the months in sped-up form.
If you’d like to give this a try but can’t attend the actual physical space, there’s also a web version that can be used with your computer’s webcam. Go to the site of the exhibit and click the last button in that horizontal bar, the one that says ‘¡Muévete!’ Then, click on ‘Juega!’
Feb 24th, 2011
I usually don’t update my games, but since I decided to put Runnerby in my portfolio, some of its issues had been bugging me. So, I updated it. Now, the music pauses when the Flash applet loses focus, and there is a title screen that forces you to click and press space before starting the game, which should resolve any confusion over keys not doing anything (caused by Flash first lacking focus), and not knowing what key to use to play, for the beginners. I actually copied this last technique from Mode, the example game that Adam Saltsman made for Flixel. My game still retains its other problems.
1Feb 21st, 2011
Or, Idea for Twee game. This is something I was compelled to make.
so is there one specific person (her) who is most sensitive to the problem? if so, would avoid any specifics on her solve that? would it make it just too vague, the work? is there merit in a work so vague it says nothing about anything in the end?
Play While telling with the eyes in your browser
Jan 28th, 2011
Just finished a video I shot during my vacations a few weeks ago in Lican Ray; a mood piece made from sequenced stills.
Dec 15th, 2010
The game I posted last about, Ascension, was made by talented game author Jonathan Whiting.
I will ramble. Please forgive.
One day, on a whim, I contacted a few fellow game makers to see if they would be interested in taking part in a little experiment. Following up on my whims has been my modus operandi since I started making games, so this just seemed appropriate. A few caught on, and what we set out to do was make a game each, and then switch around the credits, so each of us would release a game that was not of our respective creation. (continue reading)
5Dec 1st, 2010
A game of logic exploring gesture-based input. Saying more would probably mean to spoil it.
Play Ascension (Flash)
Also read: an important note.
Oct 13th, 2010
Another arbitrary span of time, another game. I can’t really explain much about this one.
Play Intervalo… (Flash)
Este es, creo, el primero de mis juegos que contiene una (relativa) gran cantidad de español. Por lo común los hago en inglés por razones de audiencia y de los círculos que frecuento. Desde hace un tiempo que quería hacer uno bilingüe, para jugar con las intersecciones y exclusiones que se producen entre grupos culturales diferenciados por su lengua, y ahora lo hice.
Sep 17th, 2010
(It was about time I posted this.)
Perhaps you remember a Ludum Dare entry I called Climbrunner—well, this game is an evolution of that idea. Here, you run around a tricky series of screens, up the walls and ceilings, only with the ability to jump to avoid the obstacles that get in your way. There’s no dying, just lots of cursing over missed jumps and having to do it all over again. It’s a short game, but if you think it was fun once you first finish it, there’s still a second path you can try.
All you need to know to play it is that you jump with the spacebar.
Play Runnerby (Flash) (continue reading)
Aug 14th, 2010
For over a month, Prosopamnesia, Deconstructivism, and Wirewalk have been broken. Today I’ve fixed the three of them. Hurray! Thanks to Alvaro G for the heads up.
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