Show HN: I am bored of pixel art so I'm making my video game with wool.
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The author all the elements from modeling clay, aka plasticine, but lost most of his clay in an apartment fire and ended up mushing all the colors together in one ugly grey blob to make enough to make one model at a time, photograph it, and the color it in software.
As time consuming as that sounds, I'm sure my children and I spent more time enjoying it.
Some pictures: http://www.officialplatypusgame.co.uk/media.asp
The story of the fire: http://www.squashysoftware.com/makingplatypus2.php
It consisted of just one big 15,000 line file, containing three functions. Logic was driven by gotos and global arrays.
I couldn't make sense of any of it, so the source had to be treated as a black box to which wrapper layers were applied.
It always amazed me how much Anthony persevered to make the game fantastic. He couldn't program very well (and was the first to admit it), but it never stopped him from doing a better job of the game than most programmers I know would have - polished and bug free.
That was quite a source of inspiration for me - I've since spent the last seven years making games full time at my own companies, with much the same Just Get It Done attitude.
I'm really looking forward to his next game, Cletus. Cool guy.
Needlefelting is a loooong time consuming process but you get some amazing results. Folks should check out woolbuddy.com for inspiration.