• ey/they/she

Shapeshifter, axe fighter, chaos mystic, Netrunner enjoyer, occasional sound maker.


Corncycle
@Corncycle
coquest!
firefox and chrome only (desktop recommended)
Welcome to my post! Pretty neat, huh? Press A again to close signs!
This thing is so ridiculously hacked together! I'm surprised it's functional at all!
Everything in this post is raw HTML with inline css!
That means I can put anything I want in here! On this last screen I'm going to put the Eraserhead baby and turn you into eggbug!
That's it! Thanks for playing my game :D
Controls:
Use  dpad to move the hero and collect items
Press  A when below a sign to start/stop reading it
INFORMATION
HOW DO YOU MAKE SOMETHING LIKE THIS?
The "smallest" post I found on this site that I had no idea how to replicate at first was this post made by @blackle. If you're able to dissect that post on your own, you'll find that they use the width of a diplay:inline-flex element to "store" a variable that we can access from other elements using calc()!
This is an incredibly clever idea which is the basis of this post. If you understand the css from that post and know how to generate HTML in a programming language, you can probably make a post like this one (not to say that it will be easy, though!)
If you like this post and somehow aren't following blackle yet, you should! It has made various mindblowing posts since then that I can't even begin to understand the creation of.
WHY FIREFOX/CHROME ONLY?
I don't know much about how css is implemented, but in my experience Chrome and Firefox have the most similar implementations and are both widely used. Safari is kind of annoying and requires some special care for some css styling, but this post could work on safari for all I know. I'm just not going to go out of my way to support it. If you are on an iOS device and using "Chrome" or "Firefox" but this post doesn't work on your device, I encourage you to read this article!
BEHIND THE SCENES
I used Python and the xml.etree API to make this post. If you want to see the code that generated this post, you can find it here This code is extremely brittle and I would heavily recommend not using it but you might find it interesting.
You can also see a debug version of this post which (somewhat) shows how it works here.
RESOURCES USED
Hovering animation taken from this post by @oatmealine because I haven't learned how to do css animations yet!
Most sprites from The Legend of Zelda, found at spriters-resource.com
Sign sprite is a recolor of the sign sprite from A Link to the Past
NES controller image taken from this Amazon listing lol (not sponsored, it's just what I found on google)
Eraserhead baby image taken from the "Villains Wiki"


lmichet
@lmichet
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love
@love

Talking exclusively about what's available here, everyone is going to tell you to watch Seven Samurai and Rashomon and Yojimbo and whatever, they're correct. You already know those ones are great, you've already seen them, you know that Kurosawa is an incredible director. If you haven't, yeah, go watch those now.

But if you have, here's the low key Kurosawa picks I think you should check out:

The Hidden Fortress
This is the movie that George Lucas was copying beat-for-beat when he made A New Hope. The thing is... watching this is just going to make you appreciate both Lucas and Kurosawa even more, because it turns out, it's a great movie either way! Just a real great adventure. Guest starring the most powerful eyebrows you've ever seen on a fired-up princess. I love her.

The Bad Sleep Well
Obviously the best Shakespeare adaptation in the world is Ran, Kurosawa's version of King Lear, but this is him doing a great job at pulling gold out of Hamlet, starring Toshiro Mifune investigating post-WWII corporate corruption, and the most dramatic deployment of a cake at a wedding that you've ever seen in your life. Genuinely interested in using adaptation as an excuse to explore its own conclusions about revenge and evil.

Dreams
Laura is correct. This movie is wild. Watching the absolute master of black and white movies do colour is like seeing Piccolo throwing off the weighted training clothes. If you wanna see some fucking i m a g e r y, you gotta watch Dreams.


reccanti
@reccanti

Also want to add that I've been able to find stuff from a lot of Japanese filmmakers that isn't readily available in the US. Stuff by Shuji Terayama (a big influence of Ikuhara) and Gakuryu Ishii, who made a lot of stuff with the Japanese counter-culture/punk scene


love
@love

YES!!! The only Gakuryu Ishii I've seen so far is August in the Water, an incredible vibes-only new age story about a supernatural drought, but it may be one of my favourite movies ever for how it manages to nail its emotional core with some great water imagery. For Shuji Terayama I would highly recommend Pastoral: To Die In The Country, an inscrutable semi-autobiographical bleeding on celluloid with a great score by JA Caesar, of the Revolutionary Girl Utena duel music fame. (They were part of a theatrical milieu that I only really know a little about how it inspired Utena but I really want to learn more.)

If anyone else has any recommendations for other movies by these directors I would love to hear them!