I'm in. Got too many ideas! Most are bad.

[5Mixer]

So yeah. Intention to participate.

I've got a few ideas.

• Like last year, narrate a simulation of a scene/game.
• Picture story book. Has a scene with some text above it. Could be silly. Would be a huge goofy file.
• Regrets of many lives (Prompted by https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Yq6gM55_aY&feature=youtu.be)
• Narrate transactions/diary entries at some sort of a store. Prices going up and down, angry customers, weather, sales, debt.
• Story in the form of a git commit log. Bug fixes, hacks, boss pressure, random crap.
• Run markov chain stuff through google translate, back, and through a grammar fixer (is that a thing?).
• Smash memes together and watch the chaos. Grab random memes and try and cut them together.
• Sentence magnifying glass. Zooming in on words replaces them with their definitions, which are zoomed on, which are zoomed in on...
• Clickbait / News site title generator. Get lots of them and runs then through markov chains or something.
• One big motivational poster. Collects quotes and advice and runs them through markov. Tries to apply typography to make a really really long image. (Like this just you can pretty much scroll forever.)
• Family tree follower. Like those Bible passages where is just talks about decendents. Could get pretty crazy. Include death reasons heh.
• Don't remove stuff apple. Joke on apply removing escape and earplugs. Apple adds bigger devices with varying features, of which old features are removed. 'Today - Apple removes the hologram, replacing it with a newer, black and white hologram.'

For the code, my favorite language is Haxe, and my entry last year was made with it, and that worked out okay. I'm considering doing it in Node JS too, but I'm still uncertain.

Github repo with sources of every idea/project.

[5Mixer]

1/11/16

Yay, nanogenmo is on. I really enjoyed making it last year, so I'm enthusiastic for this year. I've got exams preparation, exams and my school camp during November, so it'll be a struggle juggling my time. I've decided to go with, what I think, will be a more intelligent/creative approach than just brute forcing an entry. Last year I tried to perfectly simulate an environment, and in building a big engine, the result actually ended up being somewhat boring.

You've seen my ideas, so I'm trying to do some as quickly as and as creatively as I can.

Today I simulated the market idea. The haxe code generates 15 market people who all have items they sell and buy. These items have worth, and that worth effects the characters money as they make transactions. I'm thinking it's like a record that a king or something would keep in ancient times keeping track of all people's sales.

I like the idea of expanding a sentence with definitions, so I might do that now.

[5Mixer]

blergh. Didn't do so well this time around. I tried! But now I am tired and need sleep. I used haxe and just went with the market idea. https://github.com/5Mixer/NaNoGenMo16. Output is not currently compiled, but can be ran in browser. http://dandoes.tech/market

did some cool stuff with haxe.

postmortem

every nanogenmo i get super focused on code and at the end of the month i look at my output and see oh shit. but hey at least my code got restructured a lot :D