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Notes from building Fleawinder: Living Circus: a tiny world of performers, places, and the odd things they remember.
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For a while, the website was still presenting Fleawinder: Living Circus like the old desktop strip: a row of acts above a taskbar, powered by everyday input. That is true history, and I am fond of it. But it is no lon...
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Creating a flea was never meant to stop at choosing an act, a color, and a hat. A character becomes easier to care about when they have somewhere to go after the applause. That is why the habitat work became a real sy...
Read noteThe Living Route began with a refusal: I did not want to add a World tab that was only another list of systems. If the circus was going to have places, those places needed to suggest distance, weather, routine, and th...
Read noteA living circus needs a way to remember public life without turning every private moment into content. That was the reason for the Daily Flea: not a feed, not a notification machine, but a tiny newsroom with reporters...
Read notePutting a circus in a room creates an obvious temptation: make it huge. The better answer for Fleawinder: Living Circus was the opposite. The spatial stage works when it feels like a tiny performance has quietly arriv...
Read noteThis month I spent time on a quieter kind of magic: helping each flea feel more like a tiny performer with a point of view. The goal was not to make the circus louder or more complicated. It was to make the moments be...
Read noteFleawinder: Living Circus a été conçu pour un bandeau large et fin au-dessus de la barre des tâches — confortablement en paysage. Les téléphones sont en portrait. Adapter le cirque aux petits écrans a demandé de repen...
Read noteCette semaine était consacrée à la profondeur visuelle. Chaque puce de la colonie porte désormais un costume unique — Nova a une ombrelle sur la corde raide, Rex porte un casque dans le canon, Blaze reçoit une couronn...
Read noteLa version 1.1.0 ajoute le numéro de jonglage et le cracheur de feu à la troupe, portant le total à sept numéros de cirque en direct. Les deux fonctionnent sur le même système d'énergie que le reste du spectacle — vos...
Read noteLa page d'histoire de Fleawinder: Living Circus documente plus de quatre cents ans de véritables cirques de puces — des croquis au microscope de Robert Hooke en 1665 aux artistes de l'Oktoberfest encore en activité au...
Read noteJe voulais quelque chose qui donne vie à l'ordinateur — pas de manière distrayante, mais comme un compagnon discret qui réagit à votre présence. La plupart des écrans de veille s'activent quand vous partez ; Fleawinde...
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