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What creative projects have you been working on?

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This topic is part of a series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss creative projects they have been working on.

Projects can be personal, professional, physical, digital, or even just ideas.

If you have any creative projects that you have been working on or want to eventually work on, this is a place for discussing those.

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    IndieGamesCafe
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    I'm not sure if this counts but I've been trying to figure out how to add brushes of art and fantasy to my forum and blending that fantasy flavor into modern web design. An example would be here...

    I'm not sure if this counts but I've been trying to figure out how to add brushes of art and fantasy to my forum and blending that fantasy flavor into modern web design. An example would be here where I'm using a custom frame for a hover profile avatar: https://imgur.com/a/silenced-MpGx135.
    It's very tricky to do well because modern design has a certain preference for functional UX, bigger fonts, less crowding, and flexible layout while art doesn't easily fit into that.
    If anyone has ideas, I'm all ears.

    1. Gazook89
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      This is something I'm interested in as well. I'm a longtime contributor to the homebrewery which is an app for creating TTRPG content, historically geared towards D&D stuff but not exclusively so....

      This is something I'm interested in as well. I'm a longtime contributor to the homebrewery which is an app for creating TTRPG content, historically geared towards D&D stuff but not exclusively so.

      Using a web platform and html/css to create what is ultimately "print" materials is tricky because of the differing goals for output: responsiveness vs static print. The typical solution is to print to PDF and then share the PDF. But a lot of users just want to share a link to their Homebrewery document directly, rather than sending PDFs around, and most readers likely want responsive documents rather than pinch zooming and panning around a PDF meant for a US Letter Page rather than a mobile screen.

      One thing that will help is the newer shape() function that can be used in some CSS properties, as well as the cutting edge border-shape property. These will make it easier to have non-rectangular elements, and have them stretch at certain flexible points in a frame while keeping other elements absolutely positioned relative to other points.

      Also, you can check out the Game UI Database and other similar collections of how video games handle things.

  2. 0x29A
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    Been working on music (and digital art / covers / etc to go along with it). As always, multiple unfinished projects, but have actually made decent progress on some which is tough for me to do....

    Been working on music (and digital art / covers / etc to go along with it). As always, multiple unfinished projects, but have actually made decent progress on some which is tough for me to do. Different projects in different genres, and lots of unpursued ideas too.

    • Main focus at the moment is a death/black industrial/noise project, and I've got ~4 tracks made (not finalized, but the main essence of everything is present) and another in progress. Made an album cover for an initial release that I really like.
    • Secondary focus is electronic / dance / techno (and potential for collab with an acquaintance to have some music accompany some videos they make)
    • Third focus is ambient
    • Fourth focus is synthpop/shoegaze/electronic/some combo of these

    Trying to decide if I'm going to resurrect my "music recommendations" blog which has been on hiatus for like a year now. I might speedrun catching up on that year and make a massive "recs from the hiatus" post, not sure yet.

  3. IsildursBane
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    I have been on vacation for the past week and a half, with the first week being spent camping in the mountains. Especially on vacations, I leave my phone behind and carry my camera around instead....

    I have been on vacation for the past week and a half, with the first week being spent camping in the mountains. Especially on vacations, I leave my phone behind and carry my camera around instead. So now I am starting to sort through the pictures I have taken. One thing I have started to get pretty good at is taking pictures while riding my bike, so have some nice pictures from that which will be fun to edit.