Databending Panoramas, Trippy visuals for Windows users Options

[sartor]

I wanted to use Panoramas to depict my hero's journey into the collective unconscious/psyche/City of Dolor. An abstract, Serial-Experiments-Lain-type trip, and a tough task. I didn't know where to start.

Then I stumbled upon glitch art, specifically the Wordpad Effect.

Examples from my game:




Take an image, save it as a 256-color bitmap, open it in wordpad! Wordpad reads the file as a stream of characters, which it attempts to auto-correct, thus skewing the data. Save, then reopen in an image viewer. Results will vary.

Links:
Tutorial
Glitch Art writeup in Wired

Great for any trippy, hallucinatory, Gainax-y situation, especially confrontations with deities or Wave Existences. Let me know if you make use of this! I'd love to play a glitched out game.

P.S. There are also ways to glitch out music, look up "circuit bending" and "glitch music."

This post has been edited by sartor: May 12 2012, 02:18 PM

[X-M-O]

I bet you could even take those into Photoshop and play around with them to come up with some really cool graphics.
Maybe even get it to look marbled in a sense, hmm...

Thanks for sharing.

[Kaust]

That is really cool and could make for some interesting parallaxing. Do you have a demo or anything up? I'd like to see it in action.
Have you heard about the LSD game that was released exclusively in Japan (its nothing to do with drugs, its about lucid dreaming), anyways I think you'd like it, and Serial Experiments Lain was just great wasn't it?

[sartor]

That is really cool and could make for some interesting parallaxing. Do you have a demo or anything up? I'd like to see it in action.
Have you heard about the LSD game that was released exclusively in Japan (its nothing to do with drugs, its about lucid dreaming), anyways I think you'd like it, and Serial Experiments Lain was just great wasn't it?

I don't have a demo, I made the game for a friend of mine, and it's all in-jokes and copyright infringements. Basically the protagonist has to exorcise the psychological demons of old Europe from the collective psyche. Maps are all parallaxes. The "day world" is pastoral, lots of green scenery and courtly lute music in the background. When he enters the "night world," the psyche, the backgrounds become these twisted scenes of cathedral spires, hills of crosses, skylines and Lain-esque telephone wires, and the lute gives way to The Velvet Underground. Enemies appear here straight from the nightmarish paintings of Franciso Goya. The game becomes a deconstruction of the typical hero quest RPG.

I'm familiar with LSD (the game!). You're probably aware of a similar Japanese dream-exploring game made with RPG Maker 2k3: Yume Nikki / Dream Diary. If you haven't played it and you like Lain, I recommend it.

Tell you what, PM me and I'll send you my game when it's finished.

This post has been edited by sartor: May 20 2012, 05:17 PM

[Kaust]

That has to be the most interesting RM game I've ever seen (I decided to watch some of the other vids), looking for a download now. Ever since LSD I've been thinking about trying to do something similar, this databending technique would be a definite asset.
For something intended as a joke game that is a pretty developed and frankly just really good idea you've got going there (I woulda gone with something more 'psychedelic' like Jefferson Airplane over VU, but its your game), you really should upload it (unless you want it to stay between you and your friend), there's no need to worry about infringement and all that jazz if you make some attempt at creditting whoever (and would they see it? would they have a problem with it if they did? I always think people should consider intertextuality as free advertising).

[sartor]

I always think people should consider intertextuality as free advertising.

Amen! I'll at least send you a copy. As for Yume Nikki, if you like it, check out its unofficial fan community "uboachan."