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Fireflies (2017)

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Re: Fireflies (2017)

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I revisit Fireflies from time to time, but everything on https://ncase.me/ is wonderful. I particularly like https://ncase.me/door/ . Nicky's site elevates the web beyond “magazines/newspapers/leaflets on a network-connected screen”. It reminds you that the web can be a rich and interactive medium with stories told and ideas taught with love and with care. It feels like there's a gap in the market for tools that help…

There’s also things like https://editor.p5js.org

Hey that’s amazing! I could build stuff right away. Thanks.

Re: Fireflies (2017)

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There’s also things like https://editor.p5js.org

Hey that’s amazing! I could build stuff right away. Thanks.

Also check out https://www.openprocessing.org/ and their p5js playground at https://www.openprocessing.org/sketch/create with its tutorial builder.

Re: Fireflies (2017)

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Nicky Case is amazing. His interactive game to explain segregation in cities is very eye opening as well. https://ncase.me/polygons/

I'd like to see a model like that adapted for vaccinations. So you can easily see the risk (for infants/elderly) dramatically increase as vaccination rates decrease a tiny bit.

Have you tried this: http://vax.herokuapp.com/game ?

Re: Fireflies (2017)

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Spoilers for /door: I wondered how the author encouraged me to find a solution for the second map that made reach the target by walking around the obstacle to the left side and returning around the right side (and symmetric). Turns out that if you try to walk back around the left side, the clock is artifically made to run much quicker. Nice.

This actually annoyed me. Feels like the game is cheating.

That's the point.
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