alanna okun

here's me talking about the process behind my knitting / knitted game! vimeo.com/1190839598

.@alanna made a game about knitting and hand-knit the arcade console shell for it. You can play Loose Ends here: 80.lv/articles/indie…

@alanna Idk is this info is interesting to you but the old NES had an add-on to knit nintendo characters

@chaykak My Whole Deal

I think I'm seeing a return to lo-fi, handmade aesthetics, raw rough-edged stuff in the era of AI, do any examples come to mind? like this Weezer tour poster

@null_nullspace i used sanwa for the base and then replaced the button caps + threaded insert!

@alanna Is that something like Sanwa under the knit or are the control mechanisms custom too?

i made a game about knitting (and hand-knitted an arcade console to put it in) for my graduate thesis

@jamescrugnale @roseopossum i learned to build arcade cabinets from the owner of wonderville!

@alanna @roseopossum They should install this at Wonderville

@Caesar_X I'm planning to apply!

@alanna That console looks amazing. You should bring it to alt.ctrl at GDC next year.

@elielliellie it's running on a mac mini (from like 2019 lol) so pretty robust! but definitely a construction challenge vis a vis the cabinet itself

@alanna WOW i’m so curious how the console doesn’t overheat. love the button details and the story narrative. creative people are awesome

@itseieio tysm my friend!!!

@alanna cannot believe how good this looks

@kickingkeys ty pal, right back at you !

@alanna Congratulations Alanna! So cool watching this come to life over the last year

check out the game demo on desktop here! alannabean.itch.io/loose-ends

i handmade pretty much everything in the house, including all of the working electronics; i have many, many opinions about DIY dollhouse wiring now

i made a game set in a dollhouse, a sort of IRL point-and-click meets miniature escape room! you navigate using a magnifying glass that illuminates points of interest, and the goal is to unlock the attic + restore power to the rest of the house, discovering its many secrets

excited to share my most involved work yet, 2+ years in progress! Computing Shrines are site-specific sculptures that co-opt our devices to foster local connection in everyday places. Each shrine connects visitors to a communal website to exchange small intimacies among visitors

i wrote about my first year of grad school, and building my first arcade game from scratch buttonmash.substack.com/p/build-a-box-…

It's the 250th anniversary of the midnight ride of Paul Revere. I've mapped all seven Dunkin Donuts locations Paul could've stopped at on his route

using the kierkegaard dash to show i’m human

been interested in handmade, curated text-based computational work in the era of ch*tgpt — make your own here! teeny.blog/couldHaveBeen/…

wrote a poem generator using @GalaxyKate's tracery library + an edited corpus of excellent nouns by darius kazemi