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@frankiezafe Had developed a program years ago with which you can breed shapes and color combinations. The idea comes from the 90s from Karl Sims.

Sometimes I still use it to collect graphic ideas. You can always see which algorithm was used to calculate the images. However, within a single method can produce a variety of variants.

http://kandid.sourceforge.net/gal_favorites_1.html

i've tagged out 600+ open source, experimental and tiny tools by their qualities and built a new website for sorting through them!

these are all tools towards joyful digital creation, with the goal of enabling working entirely outside of proprietary systems- moving instead from one hand-made software to another.

(the list takes submissions if it is missing yours >:))

http://tinytools.directory

It's that time of year again! Two days until the spring #lispgamejam

https://itch.io/jam/spring-lisp-game-jam-2021

Hey! We're running a game jam on Itch that focuses on making an audio game. Audio games are games that are played completely by ear and don't have eyes as a minimum requirement! I'd absolutely love for you to join and give it a try!
And if you know someone that might find this interesting, maybe tell them? <3
We start on April 9th, and submissions close on April 26th.
More info here: https://itch.io/jam/no-video-jam-2

Just discovered something really cool (and free)!
There is a website called https://www.pianobook.co.uk/ where people record and upload sampled instruments. Previously the instruments only worked in Kontakt or Logic, but someone converted over one hundred of them to the Decent Sampler format.

Here's the next bit of good news: the creator of the free Decent Sampler plugin recently made a linux vst version so this can be used natively in Linux! On the download page there is also a good tip on how to find the compatible instruments on piano book.
https://www.decentsamples.com/product/decent-sampler-plugin/

Up til now, pretty much the only sampled instruments I had available to me were via running the free Spitfire LABS and BBC Orchestra through Carla (which was using Wine). That obviously took a lot of CPU. So I'm thrilled about this amazing new possibility and looking forward to downloading loads of new instruments!

(PS Sorry for the mega-post I'm a bit overexcited!)

The commissioned examples are up on the jam page and I'll also be talking about the jam at the Now Play This launch tonight! https://itch.io/jam/alternative-ecologies-jam

anyone else as obsessed with the sharp MZ charset as I am?

Internet Archive Scholar

https://scholar.archive.org/

#science #research #scholarlyPublishing #OpenAccess

death to videogames that require dedicated graphics cards to run

#books - Gregory Sholette -- Dark Matter: I really loved this book simply because it makes an attempt to really theorize why we only see the infinitesimal portion of valuable and successful work as "the art world," and how to talk about the role of the majority/the dark matter/the rest of it. The author also spends a lot of time thinking about how this mass could organize and demand changes from the mainstream art world, which interests me, though he doesn't get into the nitty gritty of that as deep as I was hoping because there are few practical historical examples. Still, really thought provoking and looks at some fascinating artistic phenomena.

Yesterday's tool now in use, with a few slight improvements.

So I managed to get myself an #Amiga 600 and added all the different boards and whatnot I wanted to have on this config (more on that later), but for future ref, here is how I was using emulation with #MIDI support on a #raspberrypi until now:

https://moddingfridays.bleu255.com/A600_on_Raspberry_Pi

Big thread of random gamedev tools and resources! New ones will be added as I find them. Feel free to comment with your own finds as well.

#GameDev #GameDevelopment #GameDevTools #GameDevResources #GameDevAssets #Assets #ArtAssets #ArtTools #GameDevArt #GameArt #3DArt #2DArt #GameEngine #GameDesign #LevelDesign #Godot #GodotEngine #Programming #Scripting