Author: APN201
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Neo Kouvola
I made a thing called Neo Kouvola. It is an ASCII city engine — one file, one endless city, everyone shares the same map. It lives at helppox.com/kvl.html. Click to jack in. WASD to walk, mouse to look. The city is 128 by 128 blocks, toroidal — walk one way and you come back around…
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Four more on itch.io
I put four more things on itch.io since the last post. They were all sitting finished in a folder while I was figuring out how to put them up. ABORT A launch console. A wall of gauges, a fifty-item scrolling checklist, a terminal count, and one button. No single reading aborts the launch — combinations…
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NAPTIME!
I made a puzzle game. It is called NAPTIME! and it lives at apn201.itch.io/naptime. A baby woke up. She is crawling. The crib is all the way over there. You never steer her. Instead you furnish the room: foam blocks to bridge and build, pillows to soften big tumbles, teddies and music boxes to catch…
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Tykkimäki 1789
I made a war game. It is called Tykkimäki 1789 and it lives at apn201.itch.io/tykkimaki-1789. You command the Swedish guns on the hill that gave the Kouvola amusement park its name. On 28 June 1789, Gustav III broke the Russians on the Utti heath in four hours. The Swedish guns were laid on the slope…
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The Pi I never unboxed
I bought a Raspberry Pi3 many years ago to take part in an art competition. I never opened the box. The competition passed. The box stayed on a shelf. Some years later I needed something to run my home automation, so I finally opened it and put Home Assistant on it. It did that job…
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FLÄTPÄCK
I made a game. It is called FLÄTPÄCK and it lives at apn201.itch.io/flatpack. You program a robot to walk through a furniture store and do the shopping. It came from two old ideas that don’t usually go together. The first is the IKEA store layout. The arrows on the floor, the one long path that…
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Long Road to Mars is out
I made a rocket game. It’s called Long Road to Mars and you can play it free in the browser at apn201.itch.io/lrtm. It started as a Lunar Lander tribute. The 1979 arcade game is one of those things that should not still work and somehow does. Side-on physics, fuel anxiety, the urge to swear at…
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Two Doors. One Person.
More than 30 years in IT, operations, security, film, and art, and no interest anymore in pretending those are separate lives.