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It happened again, I shared some links from around the web of interesting things I found or remembered I'd previously bookmarked this week: https://britthub.co.uk/interesting-things-this-week/

Themes this week are affordable software, finding and making images without the use of AI, drawing animals and maths.

today's software preservation task

one of the great crimes of the 21st century was that Mark Jones' (Core Design) Darkmere - an isometric adventure-RPG for the amiga - was poorly visually documented by the usual places like lemonamiga/mobygames/etc.

perhaps for that reason alone, few remember just how incredible mark's pixel work is. using a tightly compressed palette of 16 colours for title screens and 32 colours in-game, he produces some of the best-lit scenes i have ever seen. all hand-dithered, no less.

it's one thing to paint beautiful pixel art stills for circulating on social media; it's entirely another to build them as modular assets to be used in a game. mark's ability to tackle both jobs is a masterwork.

thankfully, mark is his own best archivist, and kept a treasure trove of screenshots from the project. he provides an extensive commentary on the creation of each sprite/tile and the overall style of the game, as well as his memories of designing and building it.

(daggerfall fanatics may recognize some of the assets - trees and mushrooms - re-used in that game!)

read his entire writeup on Darkmere here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20171104143619fw_/http://www.mjonesgraphics.com/darkmere.html

#amiga #pixelArt #retroGaming

6 DAYS LEFT to pre-order my "Cats in Weird Places" calendar. These are the pages for September-December. https://www.djamilaknopf.com/store #Illustration #Animals #CatArt #SliceOfLife

☝️Alright spread the word ppl! We have circa 400 lonely hearts combatting an isolating world to round back up.
...and hopefully more to find.

The #lonelinessCorps is for anyone wanting to connect more, online or in meatspace. With fun and silliness or heartfelt earnest chats about deep stuff here on fedi, finding connections for other platforms n groups, sharing ideas for finding your people locally.

Let's shake up some silos! Follow and use the handle:
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@LonelinessCorps

I made birthday cards to send to my friends this year, but I have some leftover now that this season has ended. If anyone is interested in buying one of these cards for 8 chf/ 8.50€ send me a direct message or an email at anna@abramek.art :)

Shipping is included, it's also possible to pick them up at Japan Matsuri (this weekend) or Zürich Pop Con (next weekend) Any cards unclaimed by Pop Con will be displayed there for all the visitors to browse

#FediGiftShop #MastoArt

I propose a new tag:
#fuckitFriday where we share whatever stupid social norm we are abandoning because it is stupid and makes our lives harder.
And fuckit to any narrative that keeps us down.
And fuckit to pretending to be ok when things are not ok.
And fuckit to whatever else you've been carrying you'd like to let go of.
And so on...
Whatcha got, denizens of fediland? I got two middle fingers all ready to go!
cc @lonelinesscorps
#startAConversation

Canadians, the settlement website is up to make your claim for the bread price fixing.

http://www.canadianbreadsettlement.ca/

the green orange
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