Jake Rodkin @ja2ke@mastodon.social
Hello Internet I am Jake! I design video games at http://camposanto.com, host podcasts at http://idlethumbs.net and, like you, bathe in piles of garbage online.
Sassing things up quite a lot, with the help of @alexgriendling. https://www.dropbox.com/s/1xoz9039u0dxela/dialup.mp4?dl=0
Ran a live test of my Acrophobia clone on Twitch tonight with 8 contestants! It totally ate shit because something is wrong with my acronym submission validator. It works when I test by myself or with two users but not in a live setting. But... it was fun anyway! Bodes well. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/216499988
Autobiographical Architecture moment 5 https://youtu.be/R9im6tyiAZk
Updated the Game Tourism page, a collection of info, links, and mods I've made for turning combat or horror games into exploration games: http://vectorpoem.com/tourism
#MASTODON POST PRIVACY - who can see your post?
PUBLIC 🌏
Anyone can see and boost your post everywhere.
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✅ People who look for it
❌ Local and federated timelines
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✅ Tagged people
✅ Followers
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❌ Local and federated timelines
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DIRECT MESSAGE ✉️
✅ Tagged people
❌ Followers
❌ People who look for it
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https://cybre.space/media/J-amFmXPvb_Mt7toGgs #tutorial #howto
On Friday my creative tech studio released Shortcut, our podcast clipping and sharing software, as an open source project! Podcast creators, please take a look, you might be pleasantly surprised. We're trying to build for podcasts what animated gifs are for YouTube.
Blog post: https://feeltrain.com/blog/shortcut/
Code/Docs: https://github.com/FeelTrainCoop/shortcut
Live example: http://shortcut.thisamericanlife.org/
the 1997 Herbie movie sounds intense as hell https://mastodon.social/media/lx1fMQj1LCtnpqZZoQY
Autobiographical Architecture teaser 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah0HAiWYLYA
Twitter's tagline "more of what's happening" sounds so funny. Like any of that which is happening is so good that we'd want more of it
My #1 and #2 Mastodon dreams:
1) Ability to transfer your account from one instance to another painlessly as part of the main feature set.
2) Edit button.
A couple days ago this wasn't here, which means in the last 48 hours or so, someone waded out into Lake Merritt to construct this Lordly Bird Perch.
https://mastodon.social/media/RQiuyqkwJqVfNNfCi1Y
At some point I lost the SCSI hard drive for my childhood Apple IIgs and whenever I remember this fact it is a source of sadness. After that sad thought, here is a video of the Photonix disc copying program by the French IIgs software group and demo scenesters FTA to lighten the mood. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-pTW_GlbXY
Part 1 of mood board for this game:
1) Of course https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oBJ5UbN15k
2) http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/sphere/
3) https://gizmodo.com/every-webpage-from-the-1995-movie-the-net-1592821504
4) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpzmyAqQu1I&t=8m14s
Adding some obligatory bubbling water FMV elements to this Acrophobia clone, which seem essential for any 90s-hacker-meets-game-show aesthetic. https://mastodon.social/media/9mSbzXCAEXBIfpNnOoc
Oops actually annoying Mastodon question: do I have to unfollow and refollow everyone I added months ago for them to show up in my timeline? Only seeing people I added today.
Was going to write a stupid "trying Mastodon again" post but instead I'll share this test of a Twitch-based Acrophobia clone I started trying to make this weekend https://www.twitch.tv/videos/184407698
I came back after a couple months away and my timeline was empty until I unfollowed and refollowed people :( Sorry about that anyone.
Maybe the most 90s thing you'll see today https://mastodon.social/media/lqVFheahMtMVd93NkTM
