#screensaverjam

[Screensaver Jam] - Wake Up (2016)

What happens between sleeping & waking

A bullet hell game about screensavers made for #screensaverjam done w/ my friend Austin

so my screensaver for screensaver jam (the starfield one) got featured in this video! yay! =) nice to see their reaction to it. =D

Plantarium (2016)

Almost-but-not-quite made for ScreensaverJam, Plantarium (not to be confused with Planetarium) is a plant generator by Daniel Linssen.

http://managore.itch.io/plantarium

#ScreensaverJam

Screensaver Jam wrapped up last weekend. 

While not all screensavers use procedural generation, screensavers are a great way to showcase a generative project, giving it a context. 

Finding a way to contextualize your procedural generation project definitely helps people understand it more easily. I’d compare it to the way that people have an easier time understanding artwork in a gallery because it gives them a framework to start to interpret it. (Which is why some artists deliberately try to work outside a gallery space, because they’re critiquing that relationship.)

The hundred-and-twenty-plus entries in the jam show a wide variety of approaches. Perhaps it’s time for the screensaver to be revived as an artform. The demoscene evolved out of the bragging of the early hacking and software piracy scenes. Perhaps the screensaver, vestigial in a post-phosphorus age, can find a similar niche.

Or maybe it’s already happened while I wasn’t looking. Is there a happy little community of After Dark enthusiasts I’ve never heard about, who compete to dazzle each other with new techniques? It wouldn’t surprise me. Out of all software, screensavers are perhaps the most afraid of human interaction. They’re timid mice that flee when they sense your approach. Perhaps their creators share similar traits.

Este último finde se celebró la #screensaverjam. Y aunque no son propiamente juegos, me ha fascinado la cantidad de arte que se ha generado en un fin de semana con un tema aparentemente tan inocuo como el de crear salvapantallas.

Everyone should play Friend Helper+!!!

𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒖𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎𝒔 𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒌 ‧ #screensaverjam entry