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Game? Art? Or both? Digital and... physical? Unravel an intriguing universe that mixes platforming, action and puzzles, and experience a unique aesthetic adventure on ZX Spectrum and MSX.

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The initial idea for this game came from dialogues I had with my friend Luiz Souza. We were talking about what Anachronic Art would be, he was writing and rewriting the final version of our Anachronic Art Manifesto, and Kandinsky was always coming up in the conversation. From our dialogue came the idea to make an abstract game, and more than that: to create a whole fiction that the concept of the game would have been created by the abstract painter himself. I've made some graphical mockups that could compose the game, and then Luiz Souza wrote a story where his fictional Kandinsky died as a junkie in the late 80's and influenced some underground game developers. In the end, I had to change many things about the game: the aesthetics of Mondrian's art suits better with the technical limitations of the microcomputers of the 80s, and the exercise of fiction regarding authorship had already been carried out in Luiz's short story. The game still is somewhat related to literature through the encrypted text that comes with the physical edition inserts.

A few years ago, when I found out about the ZX Spectrum (1982), I believe around 2014, my pixel artist self fell in love with that color palette and the famous (or infamous) "Colour Clash". It's just that in the ZX, economical in all technical aspects, there is no memory space for sprite color information (the objects that move freely around the screen), and these borrow the colors from the graphic blocks in the background (generally composing the scenario).

This is the third game I develop for the ZX. In the first one, Devwill Too, I tried to use 8x8 blocks completely filled with color to create colorful backdrops and avoid showing the "Color Clash". I heard praise from people who found the graphic style interesting because of this. In the second, Virgil's Purgatory, I tried again to use the blocks in this way, going a step further, with the details of scenarios drawn with these large cells, blocks of 8x8 pixels, and graphics in black, grey, white, and red.

But in /\O[] I finally achieved the main objective of using the "Colour Clash", at first a limitation, a flaw, as a graphic effect of light, shadow, layering, simulation of automatic scrolling screen, and general aesthetics about the game. Speaking of which, the aesthetics (not to be confused with the true meaning of the word cosmetic) is conceived in such a way that each canvas forms a frame, an abstract canvas in motion. As Luiz Souza accurately evaluated: "you think about colors like a painter and apply them like a game designer". As already mentioned, the canvases were strongly inspired by the paintings of Piet Mondrian, although the basic shapes were also left from Kandinsky: the circle, square, triangle, line and point.

I continue to seek to enrich the video game I produce with cultural elements from all places, from all times, in anachrony, which as Luiz Souza concluded, regarding our Anachronic Art Manifesto, first dismantles and fragments time, understanding each one of its elements in its historical moment, to reassemble these fragments in a cohesive, conscious and critical way.

Without more to say, I hope you can play /\O[] and have fun, enjoy, enjoy, take what suits you from the experience.

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So I rewatched Tron recently and man, i love this film so much, so i wanted to make an AMV with it.

you know, i actually started this before the Ares trailer came out...

And, as always, a massive thank you to @StarPrincessTally for helping beta this video!

Source: TRON

Song: Electric Angel

Artist: Marikyuun

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TRON

media: Adobe Photoshop

I 2012

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Me when I get my hands on the new Funkos

LOOK AT THEM :((

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wow a cool parallel between these two episodes (head in my hands. again)

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Guuuurlll you tell that boy

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I feel like this one could make the rounds again.

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I HAVENT DRAWN CYRUS AS THE FALLEN ANGEL PAINTING WHAT HOW,,,,

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Can't believe I made a post about the varied reactions J. Bridges evokes without mentioning that this was my first phone background-

Congrats to The Mirror, of all places, for saying it the best-

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they were wild for this

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Renepaige / Only Wanna Dance

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i love tron so so much. he's got more action scenes than speaking ones and he's a religious crusader and he only knows how to puppy love and he'd never kissed his girlfriend until another man showed them how to do it and he's died for said man multiple times and he's his world's deadliest gladiator champion and he's ambidextrous and he's also not even the main character in either of the movies named after him.

no one will ever do it like him ever again.

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Interesting linguistics from Tron: Catalyst

First canon use of Frag/fragged as a substitute for fuck?

Currency= "shards"

Type of Lord's prayer to the Users?? (Nkw granted im making this assumption based on my background in Christianity. Could be very general or based on a completely different religion. Either way the syntax makes it feel as if it were written at one point and was being recited)

Romantic partner/spouse= "parallel"

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Thoughts about the general feelings of the Tron franchise.

I know we're all upset about the movie, and don't want to support a pedophile.

I'm not supporting it either

But this means we HAVE to support Tron Catalyst as much as possible if we want to see more content in the future. And I think Catalyst is in the direction we want to see that content go in.

So. Hype up the game as much as you can. Go buy it. Play it. Get your friends to play it if you can. Talk about it. Post about it. Get it trending if you can.

I know we all probably are, already, but all the more if we can.

If you haven't bought it yet, this is me being an enabler.

Finish the game!

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these r super cool!! could you make one for tron lightcycle run 🙏🙏 - @tron-lightcycle-run

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