Grotto down
mudroom.rip is currently giving error 500’s after login. Hopefully it wasn’t doing this while my Concordia application was being reviewed. I doubt it’s being looked at currently but I’ll investigate the issue.
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Haven’t been posting about dungeon mode kit because it’s moving too fast and I already keep a changelog and do daily private posts in obsidian. I need to think about when it’s beneficial to do public posts again, probably when I’m back in a school context with advisors or playtesters (If I’m lucky enough to be back in that scenario).
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This is project start for Dungeon Mode Kit, a set of tools for prototyping games within the Dungeon Mode.
Video archive annotation tool
Created an electron app so Danny and I could both tag, merge and edit the subtitles of the clips in the video archive. I feel like engagement with the archive is an activity that will lead to better ideas on how to activate it for players. Some ideas forming between the two of us about game mechanics related to memory, collecting, media, obviously in concert with Danny’s work on The Little Database
Studio Notes 6-18-25
Daniel Scott Snelson and I will be speaking remotely at DIGRA2025, Wednesday, July 2nd, about Soccerthon88, our artgame/documentary project in development. Abstract here.
Animation Obsessive- Revisiting Trnka's The Hand
The Hand had a long history of being paraded around at western festivals as a critique of Soviet authoritarianism, but its target was much broader. nice writeup in Animation Obsessive on its 60th anniversary.
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