From the workshop
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 现在有了自定义 iOS 键盘。安装一次，你在任何应用中打字——Messages、Notes、Safari，任何地方——都会在后台悄悄为马戏团上发条。每十次按键就会向主应用发送一股能量。跳蚤不在乎输入来自哪里；它们只想被上发条。
Read noteFleawinder: Living Circus 为任务栏上方的宽薄条带而设计——舒适的横屏。手机是竖屏的。让马戏团在小屏幕上运作，意味着要重新思考布局，同时不能失去让它充满活力的要素。
Read note这周全是关于视觉深度。殖民地里的每只跳蚤现在都穿着独特的服装——Nova 在钢丝上有把阳伞，Rex 在大炮里戴着头盔，Blaze 为喷火表演戴上皇冠。细小的细节，但赋予每位表演者一眼就能辨认的身份。
Read note1.1.0 版本将杂耍表演和喷火表演加入阵容，使现场马戏团表演总数达到七个。两者都运行在驱动其余节目的同一能量系统上——你的击键、鼠标移动和点击。
Read noteFleawinder: Living Circus 的历史页面记录了四百多年的真实跳蚤马戏团——从罗伯特·胡克 1665 年的显微镜素描到今天仍在表演的啤酒节表演者。撰写它意味着阅读维多利亚时代的节目单、数字化的报纸剪报，以及数量惊人的关于昆虫学娱乐的学术论文。
Read note我想要一个能让电脑有生命感的东西——不是以分散注意力的方式，而是作为一个安静的伙伴，对你的存在做出反应。大多数屏幕保护程序在你离开时激活；Fleawinder: Living Circus 在你到来时激活。
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