forest-frenemies – Lunamatic

Fox’s Lunch

The first page of Fox's Lunch, a text game. The main character is thinking about his belly.

Spent the day at an interactive fiction workshop, mentored by Charlene Putney, and made this Twine game called Fox’s Lunch.

Bunch of Bananas

Bananas, whole, peeled and just the banana skin, all rendered in CSS

Bananas, each in one element CSS. Assets for Forest Frenemies (still in alpha). Have a go here: https://jsbin.com/jojigur/edit?css,output

Bluebird

The fox excitedly points towards a robin! The bird informs him that he's not a robin, he's a bluebird. The fox looks ashamed and says he's colour blind.

So, I’ve been chugging away with my experimental “CSS illustration as comic” project for a while now, and posting .png outputs of the results on forestfrenemies.wordpress.com. Today there is a new character, who is definitely not a robin.

At this point I have prepared about five pretty sturdy characters, (fox, rabbit, bluebird, wolf and bear), with a variety of modular facial expressions and postures. Creating a new panel without any new content only takes about half an hour or so, which is pretty handy. Scaling is lovely and clean, and every time I add a new element, it can be stashed away for reuse later, saving more time in the future.

If you’d like to play around with the CSS on this page, here it is on jsbin: https://jsbin.com/roride/42/edit?css,output. It’s pretty scruffy and not cross-browser compatible right now, so consider yourself warned.

CSS Bunny

Big eyed bunny, drooling at something in the distance, maybe a carrot patch, all CSS

Another creature from the woodlands. This one is an implausible pink. These little guys were originally designed to be knitted finger puppets.

CSS Fox

A fox made of CSS shapes

Behold the magnificent derpen fox. He’s a collection of CSS shapes, for easy posing and animation. Here he is in his natural habitat.

Forest Frenemies Holding Page

Here is a holding page for one of my future projects. It’s called Forest Frenemies. I’m in the process of turning all the creatures pictured into knitted finger puppets.