skybondsorI had a dream yesterday morning that I was playing a video game made by @xkcd
It was a single-player, Zelda-like adventure game where you walked around collecting items, but everything in the game was comprised of emojis.
The way the game handled combining emojis to form compound entities was amazing. Not unlike https://tikolu.net/emojimix, except my dream game included the entire emoji set and you could combine any number of emojis, not just two.
What kept me playing was a desire to test the limits of the complexity (3,644^N 😱) by combining ever more and weirder emojis, but I never did discover a combo that the game didn't handle with ease and artfulness.
I built my character out of 🤠+🕺, which sort of ended up looking like Indiana Jones? I then collected multiple 🖇️ during gameplay, which hooked to my belt and floated behind me like a glorious tail as I walked.
I decided to email @xkcd my review of the game, which was something like, "This game is marvelous! But it feels like you got bored with it rather quickly and poured all of your creativity into the emoji combos." To which he replied, "lol you are exactly correct!"
Steve Gisselbrecht@skybondsor @xkcd
I started reading this thinking, That’s your calling you’re hearing! before I got to the part where it became clear that this was too hard to actually do in real life.
I started reading this thinking, That’s your calling you’re hearing! before I got to the part where it became clear that this was too hard to actually do in real life.
3,644^N 😱
A job for Dalle, Midjourney, et al, clearly