John Penner

chess programmer ♟️ bass player 🎸 and music producer 🎹 from toronto island 🏝️

[John Penner @johnrpenner]

GravOIDS is an Asteroids type old-school 2D Shooter for macOS 👾 it has elements of Defender, Lunar Lander, and Meteor Mission II with Music by TREPANIC 🎶 https://t.co/af1DXSxyQL

[MP10 @MusicPills10]

The Smiths - How Soon Is Now?

[exQUIZitely 🕹️ @exQUIZitely]

Alley Cat feels exactly like some programmer had a wild late-night coding session on too much coffee (or whatever they had back then) and just let the surreal vibes flow.

That limited 4-color palette (black, cyan/magenta, white) turns the whole thing into an LSD fever dream. Add to that the squeaky PC speaker sound and you got yourself a game!

The gameplay loop itself is unhinged in the best way: You're Freddy the alley cat, jumping bins, dodging dogs, climbing fences, then breaking into people's apartments to knock over vases, eat fish, and court Felicia while Cupid shoots arrows at you. It's like the developer (Bill Williams, ) said why not, went full on "Frogger + dating sim + slapstick cartoon?" and then just shipped it. And serioulsy, why not?

It's charming as hell and oddly hypnotic. I mean just look at those footprints on the floor, what a cute little detail.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A Ukrainian developer created a black hole in his terminal to force himself to take breaks.

The more you work nonstop, the more it grows and distorts your code with its gravitational lens. You rest and it shrinks.

[🎞️ s13k_]

[joeryba.eth @joe_ryba]

Brachiation. 🖤

[Lazy Stardust @LazyStardust5]

Motion in the ocean🦞

[ごだか @G_Godaka]

一度プレイしてほしい美しいゲーム
砂のテトリス

『Sandtrix』

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

Information desk at the TWA terminal at JFK airport, 1956.

[Deconstruct @spydenator]

Sand watch in TouchDesigner //- Yunsu

[░ perfectloop ░ @PERFECTL00P]

𝙲𝚘𝚙𝚢𝚒𝚗𝚐... 📁📰📂🟦

[Mathelirium @mathelirium]

Roots of polynomials ladies and gentlemen 🥹🥹🥹

[Art or Other Things @ArtorOtherThing]

Meteor Shower, oil on panel by Mia Bergeron