Omni Jacala

Is there a list out there of songs/melodies/tunes that can be played on OoT's ocarina? Preferably one that specifies if the tune requires the analog stick.

Question for my #gamedev people out there: Have you found that working on games has generally made you more forgiving or less forgiving of flaws in the games you play?

I doodled this back in June of last year but never finished it. Now I wish I had. =P the file is called "missing babies." Now there's only one left!

Question for game devs out there: what software do you like to use to diagram your UX flows?

I've just been manually making diagrams in Illustrator, but I'd be interested to learn some more efficient workflows.

#gamedev #gamedesign

I don't know that I remember a time in my life where I wasn't making art in some form. I've been drawing since I was a small child. But Sonic the Hedgehog got me into making *digital* art, specifically. Started by editing Sonic Advance sprites in MSPaint.

Well I'm not really trying to conflate the two. I recognize they aren't the same thing. But I would imagine that historically, the advent of mass-production displaced a lot of career artisans who couldn't continue to make products at scale without charging higher prices because demand changed.

Well, artisan-made furniture that isn't made at scale is certainly very expensive for good reason. I'd presume most people my age can't afford that kind of furniture. At least, not often.

Well like, if I spend 100 hours making a physical sculpture and I want to sell it (and make a business selling them), it seems inevitable that I'd need to charge a much higher price for my time and labor than a comparable (maybe even superior in some ways), mass-produced product.

By functionally equivalent, I mean a comparison like a mass-produced coffee table that you can buy for $20 compared to a $200 wooden coffee table of exactly the same shape made by a craftsman. Or a 3D printed figure vs. hand-sculpted.

Don't give who ideas?

Out of curiosity, does that extend to industries that have been using mass production in lieu of human craftsmanship to produce things at scale for longer than we've been alive?

Lots of the mundane stuff we buy used to be things that many people could barely afford, like furniture.

Lately I've been really getting into making physical things by hand. And I've been contemplating whether people would be willing to buy them, but it's difficult to imagine making them at scale while keeping them reasonably priced for most people.

I ask because it seems like we're on a trajectory where products that are partially or wholly AI-generated are going to become ubiquitous. In my experience, traditionally hand-made goods already cost a premium that most people typically aren't willing to spend. Is that the future for digital goods?

Curiosity question:

In the future (presuming you can afford it), would you be willing to pay higher prices for physical or digital products/services that are handmade/human-made over functionally equivalent products that are mass-produced or produced using AI?

By dilution, I guess I mean that it takes away from its categorization potential. If all human creative output is art, then additional qualifiers need to be appended to it to be more precise.

Just seeing Luigi and Mario both on bikes riding together through the desert gave me a lot of hope.

obviously the garbage pail kids

I'm tempted to play armchair psychologist and attempt to interrogate why you gravitate toward art having a much broader definition as opposed to what is maybe a more common definition, but maybe that's better left alone. =P But I appreciate your replies either way!

This is legitimately the most fun I've had on social media in years.

Interesting wrinkle. You have a perception of some art being "proper" and other art not being proper. Do you suspect that for many people, what you consider "proper art" contains the entire set of what they call "art?"

Allow me to push a bit further: is every spoken word art? I imagine people generally construct their sentences with intention in order to ensure that meaning is evoked in a certain way by a recipient. Is there any danger that the word "art" is so broad that it's rendered trivial?

So would you assert that there can exist no human act of manipulating one or more components to create something with an identity separate of the components that doesn't fall under the label of "art?"

I hope anyone reading this knows that I'm not trying to be combative in my responses. I'm just genuinely curious about digging deeper into people's perspectives.

So would you assert that no human-made thing is *only* function?

Furthermore, is art exclusively a human thing? If a beaver constructs a dam out of sticks, it's transformative, but it's also purely functional. Is it not art to the beaver because it lacks the cognitive capacity to consider it?

Not trying to be difficult, but just posing a challenge: if every book is art, does that include a furniture catalog? The instruction manual of a power drill? A doctoral thesis? My college argumentative essay?

"Art is art" doesn't really make it easier for me to contend with the question.

Like, me posting a facebook status isn't art, is it? I wrote a thing, but it's not poetry or prose. It's just communication. And if art is just communication, then we don't need the word "art."

I think to say "all forms of expression" is art is too broad. That renders the word unnecessary. I think there's more to it than that. Maybe all forms of expression conveyed in a medium that allows for its audience to experience it as something more than its component parts.

I mean, you're probably memeing a bit, but jokes aside: does failing to produce art of a sufficient quality disqualify it from the label of art? I'm betting a lot of people would dispute that idea.

(I know nothing about Garfield Kart 2. Is it bad? =P)

It's also possible that I'm being pedantic or getting lost in semantics.