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Hi everyone!
After building KariPom on the CoreS3, I wanted to try making something completely different with the Cardputer ADV.
This is SOUND TERRARIUM.
Sound creates the terrain.
Time and weather create the sky.
A tiny runner lives inside it.
SOUND TERRARIUM is not really a game. It is a tiny audio-reactive world running on the Cardputer ADV.
The microphone listens to the sound around it, and that sound continuously shapes the terrain while a tiny runner keeps moving through the landscape.
But I also wanted the world inside the screen to be connected to the real world outside it.
So you can choose a city anywhere in the world, and SOUND TERRARIUM uses its local time and current conditions to create the sky — including weather, temperature and humidity, sunrise and sunset, moonrise and moonset, lunar phase, and the changing light from daytime through twilight into night.
In other words:
A tiny living world that simulates the present moment of your chosen city.
There are some little surprises too. 😄
If the Cardputer is tilted far enough, the runner can fall out of the world. If the runner doesn’t return, after five seconds a UFO appears and brings the runner back.
The basic clock and audio-reactive scene also continue to work offline. Network access is used for things such as current weather, location, time synchronization and astronomical information.
Try it without a Cardputer ADV
I also made a browser version, so you don’t need the hardware just to see what SOUND TERRARIUM is like.
Try SOUND TERRARIUM Web:
https://kariagepompadour.github.io/SOUND-TERRARIUM-Web/
Real Cardputer ADV demo
Watch the demo:
https://kariagepompadour.github.io/SOUND-TERRARIUM-Web/SOUND_TERRARIUM_demo.mp4
Source code
SOUND TERRARIUM for Cardputer ADV:
https://github.com/kariagepompadour/SOUND-TERRARIUM
SOUND TERRARIUM Web:
https://github.com/kariagepompadour/SOUND-TERRARIUM-Web
I grew up with the early arcade and home-computer games of the late 1970s and early 1980s, and some of that feeling inevitably found its way into this little screen.
Back then, I could only watch and play.
More than forty years later, with the arrival of AI, I could finally create.
The noise of the city is our energy.
Run toward tomorrow. Run! Run! Keep running!
Thanks for taking a look!!
