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when im bored i open tuxpaint and draw cats

stupi}d fly

im so green

ive completely lost it. im turning toml files into templates that render into more toml files

im addicted to making my life harder for no reason

life is precious

for the past month i've made music for and helped develop and manage an ambitious little game for a game jam that we unfortunately couldn't finish most of everything in time for.

there were many bizarre and unlucky issues along the way that made it quite difficult for the entire team to get things done, but we did get a lot more done than we thought we would!! the artists did an incredible job and some of the assets are drop dead gorgeous!! the music that the lead composer and audio director (agatha) got into the game is also incredible and most of what i did was rearranged by her. overall everyone did an incredible job and working with this team of people was a joy and i'd love to work in both a properly finished version of the game in the near future (!!) and just any other future projects ​:teto_heart:​

we also had an issue where most of the code was deleted the day before the deadline (yesterday) and we basically had to hack together even less of what we originally had in just a day ​:akko_weary:​

we got something out though!! and you can play it here!!

you'll notice that for a "fever dream jam" there's not much feverish dreamy things in the current state of the game. among the many things that were either planned or done assets wise but cut code wise there was an entire last portion of the game (and gradual transformation on the way there) that i wrote, made music for and would have "directed" art wise with a friend that we just couldn't get to in time... this section would have gone haywire with surrealism and is where most of the actual theme would have come into
with all of that in mind most of my contributions ended up basically being the team's maid setting up the repos and doing a lot of cleaning ​​ particularly in the first two weeks. and it was a lot of fun!! you should play it and see what the artists came up with!!

part of a birthday gift i made to a friend some months ago 💚

mostly recorded from my own puredata patches ^^

lets be friends

kinda heartbroken to see some of the prominent friend 2 friend networks like freenet (and i2p if you count it) give in fully to integrating ai in the code and other aspects. i've always been fascinated by the idea of making a walled garden for your friends, following cathedral type workflows for projects, etc.

the closest a project has come to realizing this i've found to be keybase (specially with the lovely git hosting), and apparently that wasn't even truly decentralized. it's also been completely abandoned since zoom bought the company. sigh

me and my friends also tried retroshare through our own vpn (headscale instance) for a while and it was fun but the app has a lot of quirks... plus at this point i'd rather be able to separate most of what it comes with into separate apps/modules/sites hosted in said vpn. which i guess is the best way to do a f2f type thing these days but it wouldn't be fully p2p would it?

freenet (i guess now called hyphanet and half abandoned while the shitty ai one is called freenet somehow) comes pretty close to being a fun f2f thing too. but you can't do much fun stuff on top of it, it's all static sites. you wouldn't be able to do something like a friend-only decentralized git network there i don't think, not with a lot more effort than its worth at least

are there more fun toys to play around with the idea of making a completely private walled garden for friends?

we need more friendware!! code friendware now!! make walled gardens for you and your friends now!!

thank you so much. i will meet you next week and the next week after that and the next week

i like sending random emails to random people if i like their website and they have a contact form