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Playground

Side projects that share the site’s engine: a ghost and its worlds, the live sky over Walnut Creek, a living spec.

01

Ghosty

One engine, many places. The same ghost in each.

  1. 01The engineEvery face, blink, and mood, with a slider for each of the numbers it moves by.Engine
  2. 02The townA night town three screens wide: lanterns to light, a market, a gate, a cottage, live weather, five small games.World · v1
  3. 03The valleyThe same place in three dimensions behind the matrix, with a lamp, a lantern walk, and the real sky.World · v2
  4. 04Ghosty eats the fieldThe dots are the game. A maze on the matrix, chasers from the gate, three orange dots that let you do the chasing.World · v3
  5. 05The petA Tamagotchi in the site’s language: feed it, play with it, let it sleep. Games, streak hats, a daily gift.World · v4
  6. 06Unicorn GhostyGhosty’s sparkly friend on a light sky, for a small person: faces, a magic door, a dance party.For kids

02

The field

The matrix on its own.

  1. 07StarfieldThe real sky above Walnut Creek, right now, full screen and fully tunable, with a shooting star on demand.Live
  2. 08Milky WayThe galactic plane where it really is tonight, as a flowing band of points: gravity, clouds, dispersion with scroll, every number tunable.Live
  3. 09Field labWhat the cover’s field could be next: nine rest states, from a band of points to the work dissolved, each resolving into the real scenes on hover. Tunable.In progress

03

Photographs

Darkslide, a film lab for digital photographs.

  1. 10DarkslideDevelop a roll through a film look, then flag the picks and show them.getdarkslide.com

04

The site itself

What it’s made of, and what it was.

  1. 11Living specType, colour, the field, the scenes, the sky, the ghost, the day. Read from the code that runs the site.Colophon
  2. 12The old siternspencer.com from 2019 to 2026, kept whole behind a word.Archive