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Ever-expanding animation of the life of the 796th floor of a space station

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Re: Ever-expanding animation of the life of the 796th floor of a space station

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Really cool. Reminds me of Goon Tower from many years ago, where the levels were made by various different members of the SomethingAwful forums: http://web.archive.org/web/20130416221448/http://www.goontow...

We did a version of this in the deviantArt forums except it was longcat instead of a tower. Somewhere I have the composite image which was a LOT of pixels tall by about 128 pixels wide.

Re: Ever-expanding animation of the life of the 796th floor of a space station

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First thing I saw was Superman beating up Homelander and the rest of The Boys villains while Saitama and Mob Psycho look on and Indian Superman dances in an ad in the background. This just reminds me of how much of my mental real estate is used up on pop culture, really.

Re: Ever-expanding animation of the life of the 796th floor of a space station

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This "ever expanding" was misleading the first time it got posted and it still is today. Manually adding a tile once in a while doesn't make it ever expanding, or otherwise literally every website could be qualified of "ever expanding".

Why do you read it so literally? It's the artist expressing their intention that the work is unfinished and being added to by others than the original artist themself

"0x00 says, that it took 3 years to make the project look like it looks now. 1 year was spent on development and 2 years to create the first 8 bays. Now though, that everyone can add any bay and doesn't have to deal with programming, the author hopes that the project will continue growing exponentially."

Re: Ever-expanding animation of the life of the 796th floor of a space station

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Reminds me of a game I used to play called Space Station 13. It's a completely unique game. Imagine a giant game of Among Us, but with the engine complexity of Dwarf Fortress. Most servers are high level roleplay, where each player has a role (doctor, janitor, captain, clown, etcetera) and the rounds play out until chaos ensues (theme changes each round, but it could anything from station terrorists to a wizard causing bedlam). This YouTuber really expresses it better than I ever could: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URJ_qSXruW0

Everyone has their goals to achieve each round, but it's general havoc. The OP animation really channels the feeling of playing the game.

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