DSMC (Spring 2025)

Devlog

• Final (Gunter 2025, How it Feels to Need to Write)
  May 13, 2025 by Paul

  How it Feels to Need to Write is part simulator, part generative poem, and part creative aid. The primary user experience is simple, see bedroom with to-do list, turn on the radio and crack open a boo... Continue reading

  
• how it feels to need to write
  May 05, 2025 by Paul

  I have implemented my plan for my final to a pretty successful degree. You can interact with the journal sim here . I may need to rework how things are preloaded as it lags a bit sometimes. The journa... Continue reading

  
• Final Project (how it feels to need to write/journal sim)
  April 29, 2025 by Paul

  I have settled on an idea for a final project. Something I can see myself using day to day if I end up with a product that I like. Here’s the gist: Upon booting up “how it feels to need to write... Continue reading

  
• Squirrel Eat Squirrel Eat Squirrel
  April 22, 2025 by Paul

  Rewriting this devlog a bit from memory, as I lost a previous version. I started with a simple gamemode layout *starting screen *gameplay *recap/gameover screen I knew that making the game interesting... Continue reading

  
• exploring algoraving
  April 08, 2025 by Paul

  Exploring Hydra this week has been lots of fun. I’m even considering using it in tandem with p5 (via initScreen) for visuals at a show I’m doing with my band in May. My friend who is hosting the s... Continue reading

  
• Ecosystem
  March 11, 2025 by Paul

  The first week of the project was slow for me creatively. I needed to get to know Vectors in p5 before I could really conceptualize any interesting systems, but with my non-coding workload that was a... Continue reading
• ALFIE BOT (Week Five)
  March 11, 2025 by Paul

  I started this project in class, but think I’m going to benefit from doing each function in separate p5 sketches them compiling them into one final working Sketch. Features I am going to keep in min... Continue reading
• Seeding Poems in the Earth (week 4)
  February 25, 2025 by Paul

  This week’s project is really exciting to me. Setting up this kind of random output devices and then interacting with them on a weekly/daily/hourly basis fits quite snugly into my creative and livin... Continue reading

  
• Classes/Objects/Vectoring (week 3)
  February 19, 2025 by Paul

  Part 1: I wanted to use Sprites from Itch.io for this project and found a cute and free pack of them here . The features I want to add within this part are: *Sprites (each instance of the object shoul... Continue reading
• icebergs (week 2)
  February 11, 2025 by Paul

  (colors used in the project were inspired by the cover of Brian Eno's ambient 1) From the get go, I knew I wanted to incorporate a poem generation element to this iceberg project. As the iceberg chart... Continue reading

  
• Quilting 2.0
  February 04, 2025 by Paul

  Starting anew (kind of), I realized the better way to go about this would probably be to make a set of functions that generate both the box and the icon within the box, then all i'd have to do is crea... Continue reading

  
• Quilting...
  February 04, 2025 by Paul

  Work session 1 most of this work was inevitably scrapped, I realized I was going about it in a weird convoluted way and had also gotten the dimensions of the quilt all wrong. I started in my journal (... Continue reading