Cropped Will Cardini artwork

February 8th, 2011

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup + Fort Thunder = Procedurally Generated Comics

It’s less than two weeks before my wedding, so of course I’ve become addicted to an ever-changing fantasy action RPG with a massive online community. I’m not talking about World of Warcraft – I’m talking about the free, cross-platform, and open-source roguelike Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup Title Screen
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup title screen

Click through to read more about roguelikes and how playing them is like reading a Fort Thunder comic

October 8th, 2009

Brian Chippendale/Sun Ra/Disco 3000

Filed under: Inspiration — Tags: , — William Cardini @ 7:24 am

This video’s an awesome mashup (Lightning Bolt vs Sun Ra!):


via Arthur Mag.

In that video, when Chippendale is flipping through his Sun Ra records, he stops at Disco 3000. That record is sick, here’s one of the tracks:

It’s a four- or five-piece Arkestra that was recorded live in Milan in 1978.