Comments on: SporeTree

By: Kaolin fire

Kaolin fire — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:03:21 +0000

Kudzu–probably thanks to magic the gathering it’s what I always think of first when I think of out of control plant-life (despite more practical experience with cane as the weed that never quits. Plus kudzu has a nice curling effect).

I’ll keep you updated–haven’t had a chance to go through everyhing yet. Too many projects, too many ideas running all over the place.

By: Ricki

Ricki — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 22:26:38 +0000

I did some hours of experimenting, but could not get my tentacles to come out right, they didn’t look organic enough, I was into some crazy and math intensive stuff at the end. Then I wrote and asked Justin how he did it and he shared the formula with me and was cool about me posting it here. Then I ported it to processing and did a mix with a tree algorithm to do a funny sporeTree.

So missile commander / spores? sound like that movie “Evolution” I would love to see it if You decide to go ahead with it.

PS. Why Kudzu?

By: Kaolin Fire

Kaolin Fire — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 19:34:48 +0000

Thanks =)

Game idea ~ I actually came here from the Soulwire tentacles (though that was in searching for some tentacles I saw on processing early this year or late last). Don’t even remember what got me going down the tentacle road. Anyway, after seeing them I was thinking of a sort of missile command (and I had a name for the game: Kudzu), but hadn’t really come up with anything else yet. Wanted to play with the tentacles and see what I could get them to do

By: Ricki

Ricki — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 08:54:02 +0000

Hi Kaolin I like your writing and I would like to hear more about your game ideas. here is the source and a couple of swf's! As I said, it is uncommented and messy. Do feel free to ask about particular obscure things I accidently put in there:)

By: Kaolin Fire

Kaolin Fire — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 04:04:18 +0000

I’d be interested in seeing the code–brainstorming a couple of game ideas