Here’s an HTML5 drawing toy I’ve been working on for a few weeks. It’s been designed to work on touch devices in addition to the plebian mouse, although I only really have my iPad to try it on, so I’m not sure how it will work everywhere else. You can add it to the home screen on any iOS apparatus, and it’ll work more or less like a regular app, offline and all.

Play Flower pattern (web, touch devices)

For your phone or tablet, and for your convenience, I also set up a shorter URL: http://agj.cl/ip/fp . Caveat: based on one report, it doesn’t seem to work properly on older versions of iOS.

This was my first foray into several HTML5 APIs: the canvas element, touch events, and the application cache. I also came up with a way to imitate actionscript 3’s brand of class-based inheritance in javascript, and used that to port my code over. It was painful (you’re free to peek at the code if curious).

Although I’ve worked on this toy for this relatively short period of time, the truth is that it has its origins in a much earlier Flash toy I made for my sister. It had different modes, though; ‘star’ mode remains largely the same, but the rest are different. There was a form of ‘chain’ mode there, although it didn’t link up the strokes following their orientation, so it was much less interesting to look at (current implementation I stole from a concept by zaphos). The one other mode just repeated what you drew around the screen, rotated randomly.

The code for that I later used as basis for Intervalo…, for which I created different ways to expand on what you drew. I took ideas in that for this, as well.

There were some things I couldn’t achieve using canvas that I’d managed with Flash —dealing with color blendings and pixel-level operations with any speed,— but I’m still happy with how this turned out. Hope you enjoy it.

Over at Glorious Trainwrecks, a spambot started an event, and thus we had to comply and make stuff. I didn’t really make a game; it’s a silly visualization of Noyb’s readings of (other) spambot postings.

Read Spoems (web)

The audio may or may not sync with the text for you, depending on your configuration. Try reloading if it doesn’t, and if it still won’t, then I think you’re out of luck.

A shoutout to Kirk Israel for his useful lowLag.js.

This was long overdue: a browser for all of my released games, including the terrible ones, and covering all the range up to the mediocre. I used a binary system for highlighting the ones I consider to be less unremarkable; they use up double the space of the others. There’s also a handy tag there called gamey that marks the games that are more traditional in scope, so you don’t have to bitch to me about how my games are not really games.

A crass and uncouth thing I made for the KOTM. A procedural dating eroge, powered by the Internet.

Play han’you tokimeki (web)

This would not have been possible if not for the Gelbooru API. Blame them.

Una cosa poética epistolar, creo. En español esta vez, para variar un poco.

(Sin asunto) (web)

En verdad tiene su origen hace mucho, de cuando primero jugué hush de Increpare y me puse a desarrollar un par de ideas con esa base, de las cuales ninguna dio fruto. Esta en particular no funcionó porque no hallé la narrativa adecuada para el formato. Me pasa a menudo que tengo una idea formal que no sé solucionar en cuanto a su contenido. En fin, la retomé después de leer un tweet de Terry Cavanagh sobre Catherine (el juego) y su mecánica de escribir mensajes de texto que coincidía más o menos con mi idea.

The previous design’s been archived.

As always, the previous design has been archived.

There is something I still don’t understand, which happened in the old design too, and that is some Firefox rendering glitches when it first loads the page. After refreshing, it goes away. My guess is that it’s a bug related to blocks with the CSS display property set to ‘none’, which is how I make the popup effect. Well, nevermind the jargon, but the point is that it somehow screws up the design.