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Idea-plonking thread

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A modern interpretation/homage to John Cage's Reunion (a specially prepared chess set with electronics and photoresistors so that it plays ambient experimental music that changes as the pieces are moved and the game progresses), using the game Mancala, Backgammon or Hexapawn
johncage.org/reunion/

Maybe fun to implement this with something like a text version of Mancala. Iwari (mancala) is one of the games listed in 101 BASIC Computer Games
atariarchives.org/basicgames/s

22 Feb 2023 at 3:06 | Open on merveilles.town
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lee

2. a roguelike played using an electronic sewing machine. The idea is that as you play a roguelike each time you go down one level in the 'dungeon' it stitches together that level. Eventually you die and it will sew your tombstone and maybe list some stats. This comes out as a patch you can add to your shirt or sews directly on shirt and you can forever commemorate that great/poor/terrible run on your clothing.

One potential software would be to script InkStitch. inkstitch.org/tutorials/embroi

2. a roguelike played using an electronic sewing machine. The idea is that as you play a roguelike each time you go down one level in the 'dungeon' it stitches together that level. Eventually you die and it will sew your tombstone and maybe list some stats. This comes out as a patch you can add to your shirt or sews directly on shirt and you can forever commemorate that great/poor/terrible run on your clothing.

22 Feb 2023 at 17:59 | Open on merveilles.town
lee

3. a zine of new type-in programs, with an emphasis on mini games, art, demos. Each submission would have 2 pages total (of a "half fold zine"), and need to look ok printed in black and white for easy photocopy. an emphasis on handmade. great languages: p5js, lua/love/pico8, forth, etc

inspiration: "10print", Taper literary magazine, BASIC Computer Games.

13 Mar 2023 at 17:56 | Open on merveilles.town
Devine Lu Linvega

@exquisitecorp I've been thinking recently about this:

Imagine a zine where each page is a grid paper, and at the bottom, an "initial state", and then a set of rules to do on each cell to reveal a picture. Could be done with just 2-3 colored pencil.

The paper machine could have a handful of register or a stack. It could do L-System operations, or cellular automata type things.

Paper demoscene

13 Mar 2023 at 20:07 | Open on merveilles.town
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