Here's a somewhat long post on the personal projects I currently have running:
A Dwarf Fortress graphics set
As a principle, I try to avoid using superlatives too often. In the case of Dwarf Fortress though, Iām finding it hard not to. I regard it as the best game Iāve ever played or even heard of.
For anyone not familiar with it, itās a game that uses procedural generation to create an immersive fantasy world, and you get to explore it in an open world adventure, or pick a location to establish, build and manage a settlement of dwarfs.
The depth and detail of the simulation is simply unprecedented, but itās at the cost of graphical fidelity; The game looks like an MS-DOS program.
So this has led to a plethora of tile and graphics sets, and Iāve created one of them.
Fire Star - A total conversion mod for Hearts of Iron 4, based on Kim Stanley Robinsonās Mars trilogy
One of my favorite grand strategy series of games is Hearts of Iron (specifically Darkest Hour) set roughly during the second world war, and one of my favorite sci-fi series of books is Kim Stanley Robinsonās Mars Trilogy, a hard(-ish) sci-fi epic on the colonization of Mars. This is a mariage between the two.
I started to develop Fire Star as a mod for HoI2(DH), but Iām currently migrating it to HoI4 since itās much more mod friendly.
Approaching Aleph Null - An art collection blog
As you can guess, I save a lot of art that I find, for reference and inspiration. I used to just save all of it on my local drive, but then I thought: Why not share it?
And thus Approaching Aleph Null was born. I try to post the best resolution and quality I can find, and I do some color correction where needed.
Thereās both traditional and digital art on there. Illustrative and fine art. Old and contemporary.
I have a predilection for figurative art as opposed to conceptual, and when it comes to the level of abstraction I have no real set preference. Hopefully that gives you an idea of the sort of art I post there.
An unnamed low fantasy RPG setting and system
Iāve played pen and paper RPGs since middle school, and I consider world building one of my main interests.
Tabletop players and their system and game ideas they carry around is like the people you find at an LA Starbucks; everyoneās working on their screenplay.
This is a relatively new project, and the main purpose is simply to put my inclinations together, and enjoying the results with my friends. Hmmmā¦ Sounds like hot fun, huh?
Iāll try to posts some progress on it as the development continues.
SOLID STā²TE DRIVE - A vaporwave/drag audio-visual experiment
I like music. I like listening to it, and I like making it. Thing is, Iām not particularly good at it.
I used to play guitar when I was younger, in different bands with my friends. Iāve moved to another part of the country since then, so it stopped, and I havenāt really pursued it.
I still get the itches to create music though, and in 2011, after overdosing on Crystal Castles for a year, I ended up exploring and tracking the witch house tag and similar ones on last.fm and Bandcamp for a year or so, ultimately discovering two strange albums. Namely ććć¼ć©ć«ć®å°éåŗ (Floral Shoppe) and BLĪNK BĪNSĪEE 0.
I can do a whole write-up on what fascinates me so with the sights and sounds of vaporwave, but Iāll leave that for another day.
I started to do some experimentation with image manipulation, later on began doing a little audio editing and remixing. The visual experiments became a steady output of wallpapers that I posted to /wg/, and all of this merged to create the audio-visual amateur project I call SOLID STā²TE DRIVE.
Thank you for reading! Iād also like to thank my new followers, you mean a lot to me! I still have the Ask-me-a-question section open (you can send anonymously if you wish).
Best of regards, people!
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