{"id":30723,"date":"2011-11-03T04:09:02","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T04:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/tiny-wings-is-pretty-just-look-at-it-i-cant\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T10:16:12","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T17:16:12","slug":"tiny-wings-is-pretty-just-look-at-it-i-cant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/tiny-wings-is-pretty-just-look-at-it-i-cant\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-30723 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/tiny-wings-is-pretty-just-look-at-it-i-cant\/attachment\/30724\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_lu2gv3nwk81qescwho1_500-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Tiny Wings is pretty. Just look at it! I can\u2019t play it. I\u2019m no good at it. But the visual work draws me back to try, and try again. At first I thought that Andreas Illiger had made or commissioned watercolor art\/illustrations for the game. I recently discovered that he is actually procedurally generating the art. That is to say that he has programmed his game to render watercolor-like textures. And, he has programmed it to paint it all in different colors each time I play. Procedural graphics with the look of watercolor! This is a wonderful, delicate touch. I admire games that are easy to learn and difficult to master. Tiny Wings is easier to learn than poking one\u2019s self in the eye. A single touch is all it takes to activate your bird. The challenge lies in the timing and duration of the touch. And that challenge is vexing. To some it is hateful (salty language). To some it is the perfect balance (glowing, fawning language). To me, it inspires admiration and desire to make something as crystalline in its technical, visual and ludic beauty. It\u2019s a kind of productive envy. And, be still my heart, he made the soundtrack too. I\u2019m tone-deaf. The musical is beyond my reach\u2014not the case for Illiger. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/designenvy.aiga.org\/tiny-wings-andreas-illiger\/\">Design Envy \u00b7 Tiny Wings: Andreas Illiger<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiny Wings is pretty. Just look at it! I can\u2019t play it. I\u2019m no good at it. But the visual work draws me back to try, and try again. At first I thought that Andreas Illiger had made or commissioned watercolor art\/illustrations for the game. I recently discovered that he is actually procedurally generating the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1538],"class_list":["post-30723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","tag-humane-games","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-7Zx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30725,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30723\/revisions\/30725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}