alxd of the Story Seed LibraryProgrammer, hacker, #solarpunk, educator, activist and a wannabe writer fascinated by how technology is portrayed in culture - and how that affects human lives.
Co-author of @SolarpunkPrompts@podcast.tomasino.org #podcast , exploring realistic stories of our climate future with all their traumas and hopes.
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Background illustration from https://storyseedlibrary.org/
alxd of the Story Seed LibraryI am proud to present you with an interview with an incredible @adapalmer@wandering.shop straight from this year #Bazyliszek convention, now available as a #solarpunkPrompts special!
https://podcast.tomasino.org/@SolarpunkPrompts/episodes/special-interview-with-ada-palmer-history-of-ideas-and-our-climate-imaginations
#solarpunk #history #scienceFiction #rome #climate #purity #writing #imagination #hopepunk #apocalypse
alxd of the Story Seed LibraryIt's my pleasure to announce https://storyseedlibrary.org/ - a #library of #solarpunk #art and story seeds to help you imagine a better #climate future!
Huge thanks to all the artists who shared their art under various #creativeCommons licenses, including @the_lemonaut@mastodon.art , @NiwlCraft@mastodon.art and @jacobcoffin@writing.exchange ! No AI will replace handcrafted art!
If you liked our @SolarpunkPrompts@podcast.tomasino.org #podcast , the Story Seeds are expanding its concept - soon with more, unpublished ones!
#climateChange #illustration #writing
alxd of the Story Seed LibraryI can't say that I finished my #solarpunk #gamedesign blogpost, but I decided to finally share what I've scribbled so far:
https://alxd.org/notes-towards-a-solarpunk-game-design-overview.html#notes-towards-a-solarpunk-game-design-overview
Expect a long journey through a list of games called (or calling themselves) Solarpunk - whether video-, #BoardGame , #ttrpg , or other!
I welcome you to share your own titles, disagree and point out what I got wrong :)
#games #gamedev #game #design #sustainability #climate #ClimateChange #utopia #HopePunk #futurism
alxd of the Story Seed LibraryI'm proud to present my #review of #kimStanleyRobinson 's #theMinistryForTheFuture : https://alxd.org/ministry-for-the-future-review.html#ministry-for-the-future-review
Be warned, it's a #longRead !
After three long years of struggling with the book and analyzing it I finally put my thoughts into a coherent blogpost. I never expected the Ministry to be #solarpunk , but I hoped that it will paint a future to look forward to.
#books #literature #climateFiction #climate #future #futurism #sustainability #blockchain #globalSouth #carbonCoin #parody
alxd of the Story Seed Library#solarpunk #gamedesign idea:
Survival game where you learn to be a part of an ecosystem and slowly abandon your unsustainable "tech tree" replacing it with sustainable, local solutions.
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A lot of games are trying to replicate very expansionist core loops, be it Minecraft's, Factorio's and so on, which see the player as a force acting on the environment / ecosystem, not working together with it.
Why not change it?
#game #gameidea #degrowth
alxd of the Story Seed LibraryI'm proud to welcome the wonderful Daniele Turturici to the #storySeedLibrary ! :D
He's an Italian illustrator and comic artist drawing #solarpunk !
https://storyseedlibrary.org/authors/daniele-turturici/
EDIT: You can thank Daniele for sharing his art by joining his https://www.patreon.com/danieleturturici ! :)
#art #illustration #climate #climateChange #futurism #italy #hopepunk
alxd of the Story Seed LibraryEDIT: Update below.
The discourse around the #wikipedia taking #AI money reminds me of @adapalmer@wandering.shop 's https://beforewegoblog.com/purity-and-futures-of-hard-work-by-ada-palmer/ and the discourse around #purity .
I'm not interested in the aesthetics of #solarpunk , but how to make most with the limited tools.
If the Wikipedia is getting scraped by the bots - losing money, limiting access to its resources - or allows the AI companies in and GAINS money to share more free, human-created knowledge, I'll take the latter.
I don't need to be pure.
alxd of the Story Seed Library#storySeedLibrary status update:
We have #English, #Polish, #Italian and #French . Some awesome people are working on #German, #Ukrainian , #Arabic and #Hindi. Today I was approached about #Esperanto :D
...is this a good moment to start exploring an open source translation software? I don't feel like building a pipeline auto-updating the page, but it's getting big.
Should I make a bpage comparing how #solarpunk is translated to different #languages ?
https://storyseedlibrary.org/
alxd of the Story Seed LibraryI am proud to present you with an interview with an incredible @adapalmer@wandering.shop straight from this year #Bazyliszek convention, now available as a #solarpunkPrompts special!
https://podcast.tomasino.org/@SolarpunkPrompts/episodes/special-interview-with-ada-palmer-history-of-ideas-and-our-climate-imaginations
#solarpunk #history #scienceFiction #rome #climate #purity #writing #imagination #hopepunk #apocalypse
alxd of the Story Seed LibraryIt's my pleasure to announce https://storyseedlibrary.org/ - a #library of #solarpunk #art and story seeds to help you imagine a better #climate future!
Huge thanks to all the artists who shared their art under various #creativeCommons licenses, including @the_lemonaut@mastodon.art , @NiwlCraft@mastodon.art and @jacobcoffin@writing.exchange ! No AI will replace handcrafted art!
If you liked our @SolarpunkPrompts@podcast.tomasino.org #podcast , the Story Seeds are expanding its concept - soon with more, unpublished ones!
#climateChange #illustration #writing
alxd of the Story Seed LibraryI can't say that I finished my #solarpunk #gamedesign blogpost, but I decided to finally share what I've scribbled so far:
https://alxd.org/notes-towards-a-solarpunk-game-design-overview.html#notes-towards-a-solarpunk-game-design-overview
Expect a long journey through a list of games called (or calling themselves) Solarpunk - whether video-, #BoardGame , #ttrpg , or other!
I welcome you to share your own titles, disagree and point out what I got wrong :)
#games #gamedev #game #design #sustainability #climate #ClimateChange #utopia #HopePunk #futurism
alxd of the Story Seed LibraryI'm proud to present my #review of #kimStanleyRobinson 's #theMinistryForTheFuture : https://alxd.org/ministry-for-the-future-review.html#ministry-for-the-future-review
Be warned, it's a #longRead !
After three long years of struggling with the book and analyzing it I finally put my thoughts into a coherent blogpost. I never expected the Ministry to be #solarpunk , but I hoped that it will paint a future to look forward to.
#books #literature #climateFiction #climate #future #futurism #sustainability #blockchain #globalSouth #carbonCoin #parody
alxd of the Story Seed Library#solarpunk #gamedesign idea:
Survival game where you learn to be a part of an ecosystem and slowly abandon your unsustainable "tech tree" replacing it with sustainable, local solutions.
---
A lot of games are trying to replicate very expansionist core loops, be it Minecraft's, Factorio's and so on, which see the player as a force acting on the environment / ecosystem, not working together with it.
Why not change it?
#game #gameidea #degrowth