My approach here was to murder Prokofiev's Troika as a cutesy J-pop swing version, much like Rainbow Islands murdered Somewhere Over The Rainbow.
@p01 I definitely learnt a lot on this project, mainly that doing swing on the pico-8 (or anything that isn't 4/4 time) is really hard, due to the patterns being fixed at 32 notes long.
Nov 16, 2019 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
Chiltern Railways ticket machines are a fascinating study in UX design, because they've clearly been designed by someone who knows how to design travel booking websites, and if you shove a website into a metal box with a giant touchscreen, that's a ticket machine, right? Nuh-uh.
They've removed the button that says "give me an off-peak return", and you're forced to go through the motions of choosing a pair of trains so that it can tell you "oh, you'll be wanting an off-peak return then"
Dec 29, 2018 • 21 tweets • 5 min read
So now the cat is out of the bag - I was responsible for a couple of ZX Spectrum related easter eggs for Black Mirror's #Bandersnatch choose-your-own-adventure special...
Without getting too spoilery... a post-credits scene shows the main character listening to a tape marked "Bandersnatch Demo", consisting of screechy electronic noise.
