IdeasUnfinished on purpose · 8 entries

Unfinished on purpose · 8

  1. Aug 12A dark catalogue of Flash game cards with pixel-art thumbnails and Play buttonsAug 12The Basement ArcadeA folder called Games on an old drive: 74 tar archives from 2004 to 2006, each one a small Flash game built for a forum arcade mod. Flash is dead and so are the forums. I put them back on with Ruffle, then chased the part that made a forum arcade an arcade: the Submit High Score button, which had been posting to a PHP script that has not existed since 2007.Seventy-four Flash games from a 2005 forum arcade, running again with their high scores.
  2. Aug 10A Windows XP window running FrontPage 2003 with a 2003-style personal home page openAug 10FrontPage 2003, in a browser tabI found a FrontPage 2003 install disc in a folder and asked Claude Code whether it could read the CAB files and rebuild the app. This is what came back: the XP window, the menus, the folder list, the four view tabs, and a 2003 home page for me, marquee and hit counter included.FrontPage 2003 rebuilt in a browser tab, from an old install disc.
  3. Aug 03A wood-grain CRT television in a dark room, tuned to a green pixel-font channel that reads Video GamesAug 03A CRT TV as the whole websiteA landing page for a collectibles-buying business, except the page is a tube TV in a dark room. Everything the site has to say plays on the screen as channels: what they buy, how it works, how to get in touch. Step inside and the camera flies up to the glass, a remote flips channels, and every picture goes through a VHS shader on its way to the tube.A business landing page that plays entirely on a 3D CRT television.
  4. Jul 06A dark 3D tunnel of screenshots with a large outlined 2026 in the middleJul 06Scroll to time travelThirty-five years of work as a tunnel. The newest year sits nearest, the past recedes and blurs, and scrolling flies you back through it. Gentle flicks stay precise; hard scrolling builds to warp speed.Thirty-five years as a tunnel. Scroll to fly back through them.
  5. Jul 02Six dark nodes on a dotted grid, wired to a centre node labelled Jordan FlaigJul 02Node labA personal site as a node graph. Coffee and the Midwest go in; work, about and contact come out, and the copy on each node changes with what’s wired into it. Double-click to add a node, drag the space to pan.A personal site as a node graph. What’s wired in changes what each node says.
  6. Jul 02Large white headline reading The cursor is the interfaceJul 02The cursor is the interfaceA playground where the cursor has a liquid body. It fuses with links as you get close, the nav waits inside it and fans out when you hold still, headline letters push away from it, and stickers float around with real physics.A playground where the cursor has a liquid body and the nav lives inside it.
  7. Jul 01A dark node map of hiragana cells under an orange 元素 faction badgeJul 01KANA//NETA cyberpunk RPG for learning Japanese. Seven factions each own a sector of the net and teach one thing: hiragana, katakana, vocab, kanji, voiced kana, grammar, and a boss gauntlet at the end. You decrypt cells on a node map, earn reputation, and the interface slowly turns Japanese as you go.A cyberpunk RPG for learning Japanese. Seven factions, one node map per sector.
  8. Feb 22A dark navy battle screen: a cave rat with a health bar, a battle log, and Attack, Defend and Flee buttonsFeb 22A forum RPG mod, rebuiltADR was a phpBB2 mod from the mid-2000s: an RPG bolted onto a forum, where every member got a character, fought monsters between posts, robbed the shops and did time in jail when it went wrong. I rebuilt it from the original PHP as a React app, formulas and all. This copy runs entirely in your browser, so make a character and go hit a cave rat.A mid-2000s phpBB forum RPG, rebuilt in React with the original formulas.