Data is arbitrary, do whatever you want with it

data-is-arbitrary-do-whatever-you-want-with-it.md

Shane Trewartha

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Shane currently works as a level designer at Hipster Whale, but over his decade and a half long career in games has worked as everything from artist to QA to designer to teacher, and before that spent years modding various games for fun. In his spare time he also makes solo project games under the moniker Game Waffle (formerly Toast Games).

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Data is arbitrary, do whatever you want with it

Technically Games Online 2021

It’s all too easy to fall into ruts of expectation about what ‘is’ and what ‘isn’t’ when making a video game. At the end of the day though, it’s all arbitrary interpretation of 1’s and 0’s in order to present some illusion to the user. Here we look at pushing that idea to the extreme by using html straight from the internet as level data for a game, rather then hand authoring it to some existing format.

data-is-arbitrary-do-whatever-you-want-with-it.md

Shane Trewartha

He/Him


Shane currently works as a level designer at Hipster Whale, but over his decade and a half long career in games has worked as everything from artist to QA to designer to teacher, and before that spent years modding various games for fun. In his spare time he also makes solo project games under the moniker Game Waffle (formerly Toast Games).