Games

What a coincidence. Just yesterday I saw a video about how Mario Galaxy works from a technical perspective, and water was one of the topics.

As it turns out, the water effect was done by manipulating the floor texture with a noise pattern to make it squiggly, and then putting a transparent layer above. It looks pretty good and doesn't need much processing power.

I just thought that was interesting.

Yeah Mario Galaxy is one of those creative masterpieces imo

The inherit calm of a Mario game when no enemies are present.

This visual is uniquely soothing, reminds me of artist Cory Arcangel, who did an art piece with just the Super Mario clouds drifting on a television screen - hacking into the NES cartridge and getting rid of everything else - to much admiration.

I remember reading an art journalist applauding the Impressionistic feel of the thing, the way Arcangel brought a background object to the fore, and in the process transformed it into something new entirely, with a surprising character and strength of presence.

Here's a Whitney Museum link to the work.

I should dump my Wii games. They're just sitting there since my wii disc drive doesn't work

try to not upload it to archive.org, or they get another lawsuit.. bankrupting them slowly. I really love archive.org, but it doesn't look good