ISLANDS is a surreal interactive experience in the style of my gifs: islands-game.com App Store / Steam / Itch
Platforms: Mac / PC / iOS
New short film almost done!
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oh man Doritos should have come out with Spice Doritos to promote Dune. tiktok would have gone crazy for Spice Doritos
EVERY GROCERY STORE HAS ONE PRODUCT THAT BINDS EVERYTHING IN A UNIFIED ENERGY
A short (3-5 min) free text-game.
Works in the browser: PLAY
Controls: WASD or Arrows
if I could do a Star Wars movie it would be black and white, no talking, and the whole thing would be a meditative fly-on-the-wall documentation of Yoda doing Jedi practice alone on Dagobah for the full feature length.
And the last scene, right before credits, would be Luke’s ship crashing into the swamp
Was in a group conversation about how narrative can change the way a
game mechanic is experienced and someone floated the idea that you could
rename Pong to “Custody Battle”
I was getting into this idea that when videos are uploaded to youtube, they start evolving and trying to escape youtube, after which they become these abstract entities that scientists study. Feral content.
Update new image: Adding the idea that feral content have sex with each other
Update new image: I had a dream about this feral content idea where this older woman, some relative, I was at her country estate ‘in Europe’ and helping her clean out her garage and I found a photo where the clouds sort of looked like these feral youtube videos? And I said “Oh this is like my art project” and she didn’t realllly care, like doesn’t know what youtube is etc. So I tried to make the photo I found in the dream
“Feral makeup tutorial as cloud in dream” (1947-1953?)
I was getting into this idea that when videos are uploaded to youtube, they start evolving and trying to escape youtube, after which they become these abstract entities that scientists study. Feral content.
Update new image: Adding the idea that feral content have sex with each other
