Recommended reading:
Splinters Act I - The Akasha Frontier is now available on Amazon.com!
On an Earth ravaged by climate change, the remnants of humanity live underneath the simulated skies of the umbrella cities. As a solution to the food and water crisis, the League of Nations looks to a new frontier. In the Akasha Sector, supertrawlers fish the oceans of Iris, while the mangroves of Atlantis are pumped dry for water.
Cellophane, a mysterious young woman from Atlantis, wakes up on Mars with no recollection of how she got there. Umar, a dealer of trafficked cocoa, struggles to make a living within the slums that exist within the Spine of the New Dubai umbrella. Kiedis, hoping to work on the supertrawler, hurtles out of the sun on a collision course towards the oceans of Iris. Meanwhile, Laxmi, a lieutenant in the League of Nations’ army, does her best to rise within the ranks so as to unravel the truth of her reality.
Their worlds will collide in Splinters Act I - The Akasha Frontier.
Cover design by @tanglootang / tanglootang.work.
State of #ProjectBokkuraa as of July 31st 2019
A devlog for game I'm working on. It is being developed using Unity 2019.
This play through demonstrates the basic tutorial level. Our protagonist (Haa) has to find some coconuts and tuna for their older brother Shaviyani. Over the course of the game, Haa will travel south from their home in Maliku to the capital Male’ in an adventure that will span the length of the Maldives atolls. Or as best as I can approximate as a 2D pixel art side scrolling sub-marining fish em’ up anyways.
As you can see I’ve still got a really long way to go. However it feels really good even getting this much accomplished as this is by far the most complicated thing I’ve ever worked on with Unity or even game development wise in general.
All of the sounds are just place holder for now and were created with Bfxr.
All of the pixel art was created by myself using Pixaki on an iPad. You can see some of the assets I’ve created so far below.
Bit of a progress report on the Sinking Streets book
I've got the basic layout down and I have a fairly good idea of what the finished product is going to look like. So far the book is divided into 6 chapters (the titles might change) which are:
01 - The Concrete Isle
02 - Inner-city Doorways
03 - The Trade Capital
04 - The Swimming Track & Artificial Beach
05 - Raalhugandu
06 - The Seawall
With these chapters / sections I aim to show what life in Male' City was like from 2007-2013; with the majority of the photographs being from 2007-2009. I am writing from the perspective of this being a historical document. Something to look back on when the Maldives, and Male' City, is long gone.
I am hoping the book to be done by July of this year. This gives me about a hundred more days. So far I've got almost 200 photographs divided up into the 6 chapters. The plan is to have some text, at least a short paragraph, for each one of these photographs. This will bring the total pages in the book to almost 400. I have not yet decided on a price, but I think I will go with a dual release; with a lower resolution copy being a free download.
Needless to say I've got my work cut out for me. I hope I will be able to finish it in time. Going through all these photographs feels like I'm finally about to close the book on the first chapter of my life's work.
2017 Update: The book has increased dramatically in scope since I began the project and has been delayed indefinitely. I do not want to rush this and want to get it right.
For the Sake of Progress
A line of coral stone houses will eventually be demolished and replaced with constructions made of neat concrete bricks.
Thulhaadhoo, Baa Atoll, Maldives. (2009)