The Candybox Blog

Years ago, during my second time at IndieCade, and when I was fairly new to attending video game events, there was a lot of talk about prioritizing events that focus on local community over an international crowd. The conversation being that it was more important to build things specific to local spaces. At the time things like IndieCade, GDC… All seemed so new and amazing to me. I thought not prioritizing “the international” was a loss! It’s amazing to attend an event and meet people from all…

The name “meanderware” is based on what people used to call my first netart project. I always loved the term. It kind of encapsulates that era of internet exploration, or fascination with digital work. The joy of existing in a digital space.

I wasn’t able to give up on the macOS version, so after a lot of hard work (way too much hard work… the working was HARD)… there’s now a functional macOS version. Get it here: https://alienmelon.itch.io/flower Some features do not work, but this does not impact the overall experience. You cannot save poems to your desktop so you don’t get the ending poem. You cannot change resolution settings, this is because those break the browser widget that’s being used. The one on macOS works very differ...

I hope the Linux build will work. At least Linux is free, so I can keep trying if it doesn't!

I guess I’m going to be here to vent a little, about culture in general, because I’m doing a bunch of maintenance and have to watch status bars go up… It’s been an interesting past few weeks. I think the biggest observation I have is how absolutely everything established seems to be failing people on some level or another. It all seems so inexcusably broken. Adobe had announced an “end of life” for Animate, and in their initial announcement they worded it in a way where they would cut access ...