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THE BAD PLATFORM- post commentary+bitcoin shirts

I just finished a new little game called "THE BAD PLATFORM"  that I spent about a week on- you can watch the trailer here- You can play the game in your browser here I had been working on the prototype for a bitcoin mining adventure game when I got the idea for the bad platform- I just got the idea one day to make a game from the perspective of the platform in platformer games- most of us are probably more like the platforms than the players in the real world- getting stepped on by douchebags on their way to money and copulation- Is this the first game where you play as a platform getting revenge on the players? I couldn't find any- if it is I called this genre "platformer revenge" It was fun to take a concept and turn it around into a game that was released in a week- the mechanics are very simple so its not like its some complicated thing but games don't have to be complicated to be fun- I started this project as my first mobile game- I was

That precarious position: Soft, vulnerable dreams in a world of predators

The above photo my wife took is of a discarded cicada larva skin- these cicadas spend between 13-17 YEARS underground in their larval stage- then emerge from holes in the ground to climb up a tree or other tall structure in hopes of emerging out of their skin and flying away as adults- Here's a nice mini documentary on the cicada life cycle In that documentary there are billions of cicadas emerging- but I live in the city so there are very few- the city I live in used to consist of orchards and fields now its all paved over and made up of condo's and business parks- So I can imagine cicada's going underground in a field only to try to emerge 17 years later to find concrete they cannot dig through- they'll desperately try to find a way out but their not equipped to dig through concrete so they'd hatch underground and die with no open sky to fly through- When they emerge from the ground they are vulnerable to predators- in my yard I've found 10-15 wasps