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This is a directory of projects pending more permanent pages for each. These are in various stages of development, so snag the rss feed and await blog posts on their progress! Also please reach out to me on bluesky if any of these interest you to collaborate on!

Software

Drawbridge

Users get permission fatigue as it's unclear how an application will use the data provided and the risks and benefits only come after granting. OS permission systems typically grant an open, ambient Network permission, so any accessible data can immediately be exfiltrated. Drawbridge aims to provide a permission mechanism for applications which moves permissions from the OS - App layer to App - Network layer. Apps can ambiently access data but attempting to move any data to an outside system becomes significantly harder. Apps would opt into this system by declaring RPC schemas compatible with Drawbridge. It then monitors for compliance and swaps data in as necessary. The set of acceptable fields in a network request are greatly reduced (and arbitrary data completely disallowed) and may have other privacy mitigations applied, eg. location fuzzed to a large bounding box, content must be addressed in a non unique way through IPFS, or data sent to a contact must be E2E encrypted with a key provisioned by drawbridge.

Drawing inspiration from semantic web concepts like semantic triples, this is a web spec which allows a website to declare relationships between two other URIs, even if they do not control either of the other two URIs. Some example relationships would be: discussion, context, alternatives to, endorsements, review, etc. This system would allow third parties to annotate and provide additional context to even walled garden sites. An extension would then allow viewing these outgoing links when visiting a website. Users and indexers would use the reputation of the link provider (inferred via endorsements) to determine whether or not to display outgoing links to fight spam.

Playdate GM Buddy

This would be a tool to generate and store NPCs, locations, and other entities from the Playdate, using the crank to quickly cycle through options and generations. A small DSL would allow GMs create nested and branching generations, eg. if an NPC gets a trait of being a merchant, then also generate a list of merchandise.

Mitosis Social Network

Social networks go through phase shifts as they grow in size, with people often bemoaning groups which have grown too large to effectively moderate or make personal connections. By examining the level of activity in a social network, the mitosis network would find an acceptable moment to partition the community into two or more 'right sized' groups. This could also happen slowly and somewhat transparently to users as content from within their future group partition is earmarked and made more visible.

Games

Hallowed Ground (TTRPG)

The Hallowed Ground, the resting place of souls, has been stolen and chained to the earth. The Gods are angry - they empower magical beasts, Retrievers, to return what was taken. You play as hunters, defending against these (Ret)Rievers and taking their bodies back to be processed into daily necessities. The crimes of the few have become the foundation of your society.

Board Games

A bunch of ideas presented here in rapid fire

  • A tableau builder about building a cruise ship and keeping passengers happy
  • A social deduction trick taking game where players can join the monster side over the course of the game until one goes on a rampage
  • A point salad eurogame about operating a port where ships will come to visit, each with individual dual layer boards and a separate set of actions
  • A head to head constructed deck game about being mecha commanders attempting to blast through your opponents frontline
  • A space 4x game where every action is simultaneous and battles span over multiple turns, allowing ongoing counterplay and trickery

Solar Escape (Video Game)

Deckbuilding game where every card played or not played advances the sun's explosion one step closer. Play on a tactical map with no breaks between battles, instead smash asteroids and planets to gather resources for cardpacks and relics. As you race to escape the solar system try to rescue as many humans as you can, you decide how hard you want to save them based on your deck.

Mountain Herd (Video Game)

Drive your sheep up the mountain each spring and protect them from danger. A flocking simulation influenced by your sheep dogs, shepherd's crook, and magical abilities.

Playdate Train Tower Defence (Video Game)

Build your tracks alongside where the enemies will go, set up turrets on your train, and then use the crank to dash your train around the battlefield.

Creative

100 Years Adrift

A novela about humans sent to terraform a planet in advance of millions of colonizers who lose contact with home. What comes of great power but a loss of purpose?

Worldbuilding

A bunch of ideas presented here in rapid fire. These might get used for TTRPG settings, books, comics, or something else entirely

  • Superstore: a magical post apocalypse where humans live amongst an enormous store and garner powers based on the department
  • High Winds: a steampunk world of people living on floating islands circling a giant maelstrom as things are suddenly starting to arise from the cloudy depths
  • Near Death: a cartographer explores a fragmented world where animals which experience a near death experience develop magical powers and sentience

And more to come...