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Written by Rune Skovbo Johansen on 2024-12-01 at 18:31

When I was around 11 I would draw "video games" on paper during breaks at school. Not sketches or design docs, but games that were fully playable using your finger to indicate where your avatar is, and following simple rules.

I just had 42 pages scanned. Now trying to remember all the rules...

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Written by Rune Skovbo Johansen on 2024-12-02 at 07:51

Is there any free tool that will let me make a zoomable canvas where I can lay out many images and annotations such as text, curved arrow, and circles?

AND let me publish as a self-hosted web page without external dependencies?

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Written by Rune Skovbo Johansen on 2024-12-02 at 11:29

Change of plans, I'll just make a high-res image that includes all layout and annotations. Then I can use any tiled high-res image solution, and if it goes down one day I can easily replace it with another. Still interested in easy self-hosted solutions, but it's less critical. (I already found non-self-hosted, don't need recs for that.)

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Written by Rune Skovbo Johansen on 2024-12-02 at 16:25

You can now see all 15 pages of the first playable paper game I made as a kid "The Hedgehog - The Original Sonic III Game", complete with annotations:

https://srv2.zoomable.ca/viewer.php?i=img68375edd8b9f287e_SonicIII_Overview&embed=0#zoom=0.71773&x=0.49065&y=0.55222

Let me know if you beat it! (Apart from the inscrutable level 7)

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Written by Wolf480pl on 2024-12-01 at 18:38

@runevision me and one of my friends used to do sth like that too... but mostly turn-bssed, not platformers

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Written by 🌀 𝖊 𝖓 𝖆 𝔯 𝔤 𝔢 𝔦 𝔞 🌀 on 2024-12-01 at 18:48

@runevision sooooo fucking cool!! makes me wanna recreate some of those paper games i made back then too

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Written by Rose on 2024-12-01 at 19:03

@runevision I love. The look of that 3d corridor

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Written by McTwist on 2024-12-01 at 19:33

@runevision I remember doing something similar. Nice to see I'm not the only one.

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Written by mx on 2024-12-01 at 19:39

@runevision Drooling over the isometric one – 11yo me would definitely want to try that game!

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Written by Azrhyga on 2024-12-01 at 22:04

@runevision Looks really good!! I really like it!! Good job!!

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Written by mafe en españa on 2024-12-02 at 01:14

@runevision Feels like a lot of people did that. Including me. Sometimes during class. 🤫

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Written by E23 on 2024-12-02 at 04:16

@runevision 2d6 dungeon, yay!

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Written by Roel Nieskens on 2024-12-02 at 07:29

@runevision That first sketch reminds me of a game I picked up the other day, Paper App Dungeon. Fun stuff! Will you "publish" or remake any of these games?

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Written by Rune Skovbo Johansen on 2024-12-02 at 07:47

@pixelambacht I'm looking into what's viable. For some of them I'm thinking of just publishing the raw pages with some annotations. There's some logic that's lost to time, so some of the games have sections that are not playable today. For the 3D perspective one I'm considering making it digitally playable (with a minimal touch).

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Written by javier on 2024-12-02 at 08:51

@runevision I think you could use Miro (miro.com). They do have a payment option afterwards, but you should be able to use it free & share links to the canvas for free too.

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Written by Joni Korpi on 2024-12-02 at 10:36

@runevision https://tldraw.dev/ is free to use with watermark, but requires some webdev setup

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Written by Steve Ruiz on 2024-12-02 at 23:01

@runevision You could use tldraw.com and use our snapshot feature for the “published” webpages

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Written by Hugo 雨果 on 2024-12-02 at 08:41

@runevision We did something very similar back in primary school in Argentina. This is the first time that I've heard of anyone outside this school doing the same thing!

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