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Open and collaborative list of resources for making alternative controllers and playful installations.
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Something new washes up every time: pages from all kinds of people, made with all kinds of tools. Beachcomb shows you what it found, then gets out of the way.
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Squishy 3D helpers powered by Three.js
Soft plush characters for AI helpers and more. Configure one and drop it into your page.
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Pure Particles, an open source art particle toy built with Three.js
Particle smoke in a glass cube. Free and open source, made with three.js by Pure Studio.
From Show HN
Metamorphosis: Transformations in the Early Modern Flap Book (early 19th century)
By manipulating paper flaps, the child could turn Adam into Eve into a mermaid, a lion into a griffin into an eagle — all while learning about the inevitability of death.
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Oikospiel-tools
Trigger-based tools for Unity for crafting games without programming.
From Tiny Tools Directory
2019 updated First Person Drifter
Download an updated first-person drifter package for Unity 2019 from me.
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‘The Department of Objects’ Brings the Charm of Sleep-Away Camp to Chicago
Wyatt Hersey, Melissa Lakey, Esther Pearl Watson, and Anna Valdez joined Joy Machine at Camp Wandawega for five days of arctic magic. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article ‘The…
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Learning new things
Rosalie was four when we adopted her, and had lived in a kennel at the college. It was a BIG change for her to be here, and it took her quite a while to adapt to some things. We celebrated when she first started playing with a toy. However, she tended to grab the toy (a small, brown bird-shaped…
From Kagi Small Web
FixMakeMod
Where broken things have feelings, tools have tempers, and right-to-repair meets Saturday morning cartoons
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“Plaything of the Gods”: Photographs of Pushball (early 1900s)
Photographs and films of a forgotten pastime.
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d100 - Wilderness Resources
F or my Wilderness Stocking – Expanded , we repurpose the “Treasure” results from the standard B/X Stocking Procedures to reflect a Resource that might be useful to the Players. While there are a few prompts included, I decided it might be helpful to flesh this out with a d100 Table of their own for…
From Kagi Small Web
The Game Designer's Vow of Silence
a talk on teaching through play, not words
From Explorable Explanations
Marvin Minsky and The Ultimate TinkerToy
An essay on the legacy of Marvin Minsky with programmable interactive simulations
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