So, now it’s up to studying the craft of developing apps on the web. I suppose it will be well-covered, since it’s the thing powering most websites. For now, it will be a hobby, to extend my art hobby.

How to build a game with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript - LogRocket Blog

I used this to test if my own server could be used to create HTML5 games.

Yep.

I have this managed shared account for which I pay 36 euros per year. I should use that to learn how to make HTML5 games, using my pixel art. I saw that game servers are really meant for players, not developers, and priced accordingly. As usual, I went for a complicated solution.

A counting Count Von Count. Pixel 🎨 sprites are 48x48px, 4 colors.

Pixel 🎨 64x64px, 4 colors. Drawn for the Sketch a Day app, prompt “loud.” Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler is pretty loud.

Creating pixel art made me think of my own game, to keep it more focussed. Since I don’t own a working desktop computer, a native app is out of the question. The alternative is HTML5 on a web server, which isn’t free and rather complicated.

There used to be a term for maxing out the number of characters in a Tweet, but sadly I’ve forgotten it. It probably is for the best 🤔 Since Micro.blog has a soft limit for the character count, perhaps that can be a source of creativity. I see very little experimenation, though.

Today’s Pixel Dailies theme was “Gate.” Pixel 🎨 160x90px, 10 colors.

One of my favorite podcasts. Captain Scarlet, Thunderbirds, etc.

Spell it out in lead? Ooh!

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The Gerry Anderson Randomiser podcast, Four Feather Falls - Gunplay.

Today’s theme for Pixel Dailies was “whirlpool.” Pixel 🎨 64x64px, 5 colors.

Drafts

I’ve downloaded the free version of Drafts as an alternative to Apple Notes for my micro-blogging. It has been a while that I’ve used the app (version 3), so it was quite different from the simple app I was used to. It even has support for Taskpaper, a ToDo app on MacOS.

I use HEX Editor by aZeR DiLLs basically for two things:

• replace Window returns (hex 0D0A) by MacOS returns (hex 0A) with HEX-iT!
• change the file extension with RENAME

Both are hard to do on iOS otherwise.

For the Sketch a Day app. The concept “sharp” as pixel art, 32x32px, 7 colors.
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A man rag of reserve. Pixel art 32x32px, 11 colors. 🎨 For the Sketch a Day app.
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I love 1950’s SF movies and their low budget look. This pixel 🎨 was prompted by today’s Pixel Dailies theme “mole.” It’s 48x48px, 4 colors.

Spongebob Squarepants inspired pixel 🎨 240x160px, 14 colors.

Drawn for the Sketch a Day app. Today’s prompt was “reef.”

This pixel 🎨 WIP shows that it pays to work a little longer at a piece before taking a break. After 2 hours or so, I really needed a break, so I exported both versions and put them on top of each other, to see the difference.

It’s not done yet, though, not by a long shot.

Today’s theme for Pixel Dailies was punchcard. This is a still frame of an animated GIF, 32x32px, 4 Gameboy colors. 🎨

I’ve gone with the unconfirmed etymology of the word, mountain valley village. Drawn for the Sketch a Day app, prompt Nepal.

Pixel 🎨 240x160px, 16 colors.

It snowed last night… It will be molten in a few hours, since it’s above freezing. 🏠