![]() I ended up with two template tweets, one to introduce the challenge and one to publish the results. This added some work as I was always worrying I’d missed something, but it also meant I spent time looking at every build. So decided to finally try out creating twitter moments. I also wanted to help gather together submissions, but didn’t want to retweet or share all of them. And some brief guidance about how to participate: post screenshots, use the right hashtags). I wanted the activity to be inclusive so came up with a few ground rules: “No prizes, no winners. In the end I revised and prioritized the initial list over the course of the week based on how people engaged. ![]() I tried to find a mixture of words that were within the bounds of the types of things you could create in Townscaper, but left room for creativity. More than enough for me to keep me going for the week, so I could avoid the need to come up with new themes on the fly. I also spent the first evening brainstorming a list of themes. At the end I’d either hand it over to someone or just step back. I decided to run the activity for one week. To help orchestra things and manage my own piece of mind, I did a bit of forward planning. I had a few people start following me as a result, and suddenly felt a bit pressured. Tweetdeck was pretty busy for the next few days. And are making lots of cool things with it. It’s had over 53,523 impressions and over 650 interactions. That tweet is the closest thing I’ve ever had to a “viral” tweet. So I tweeted out the first theme using the hashtag. I hadn’t planned to share my themes and builds every day, but I thought, why not? The idea was to try doing something different after all. I did my first one, with the theme “Bridge”, and shared it on twitter.Ĭhris Love liked the idea and suggested adding a hashtag so others could do the same. I decided to try lunchtime Townscaper builds. Forces you to plan ahead and do the simplest thing to move an idea forward. Having exactly an hour to create and build something is a nice constraint. Years ago I used to do lunchtime hacks and experiments as a way to be a bit more creative than I got to be in my day job. After seeing Jim Rossignol mention playing with townscaper as a nightly activity, I thought I’d do similar. I’ve been feeling like I was in a rut recently and wanted to do something creative. But then suddenly it was in early access. I’d seen little gifs and screenshots of Townscaper on twitter for months. It’s to help me remember a fun little activity that I was involved in recently.
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