My friend perroquadrado shared a project they made over the break — a short fortune-telling web experience. They even wrote background music for it!
Fortune Telling and Creative Pursuits
…I’ve been spending the past six months or so trying to build a healthier relationship with technology. I hate a lot of what’s going on in the industry these days, but I decided that it’s not really healthy that it’s gotten so bad that I hate being at my laptop or on my phone at all. I’m not going to let tech companies take something I used to enjoy tinkering with, and there’s a ton of great tech out there that lets me feel like I’m in control of my life again. Customising my own internet radio station player was so much fun that it gave me the push I needed to come back and consider this idea again.
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I can relate a lot to their struggles with technology and the tech industry, and trying to regain a sense of fun with it. I think that’s part of what has drawn me to PICO-8. It feels fun to tinker with. It feels like a system that I can master. Although it’s closed-source, it still feels like it isn’t trying to hide anything from me.
I’m also trying to make smaller projects that I can actually finish. Hopefully I’ll be able to put out more games and things this year.
Anyway, you can check out the full post above, or head on over to the Star Stuck Fortune Teller to get your horoscope. Here’s mine from today:
The star stuck fortune teller booth. A dog in glasses and a comfy sweater reads your fortune from a crystal ball. The horoscope reads:
A major change is on the menu for love — a really extravagant one. You’ve been carefully watched by the powers that be for some time now, and they’re well pleased with what they saw. Congrats.