Author Archives: Frank

Dithered Branches – How My Generative Art Works

This post explains how I made Dithered Branches, a generative art piece that prints a lo-fi sci-fi landscape and applies color to the result. Continue reading

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Broken Flows – Generative Art

Broken Flows is my deep dive into flow fields and even more so paint brushes and color palette generators. This post explains the concept and how it works. Continue reading

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Infrastructures – Generative Art Doodler

Infrastructures is a tiny doodling algorithm I discovered and first posted on Dwitter in June of this year. This algorithm is very complex and interesting so I developed it into this larger work and released it on fxhash. You can … Continue reading

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Grayscale Bytes – A Tiny Generative Code Study

This is a study in generative abstract tiny code. I started with this dweet which uses an interesting algorithm to fill in the shapes. From there I added more refinements and polish for release on fxhash. I made a tool … Continue reading

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Aliendscapes

A parallax alien landscape generator featuring mountains, stars, meteors, and suns in about 4k of pure JS. This was my first piece on fxhash. Click to generate a new landscape. See the Pen Aliendscape πŸͺ by Frank Force (@KilledByAPixel) on … Continue reading

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LittleJS πŸš‚ The Tiny JavaScript Game Engine That Can!

All aboard! LittleJS is lightweight 2D JavaScript game engine with a WebGL rendering system. The goal of this project is to be small, simple, and easy to use for a variety of applications from size coding game jams to commercial … Continue reading

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Space Huggers: A run and gun roguelike for JS13K

πŸš€ Play Space Huggers in your browser! The souce code is also available on GitHub!

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Batafuraiko – Winner of JS1024 2021

It’s official, “Batafuraiko” is the winner of JS1024! This is one of my favorite game jams because the main restriction is the program must be under 1 kilobyte. I had a blast with my entry and learned a few things … Continue reading

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Bad Shapes – Music Video Website

Live Demo on itch.io I made an interactive website for the band Bad Shapes! This virtual art installation features the self titled album by Bad Shapes and generative visual art set in a realistic 3D scene.

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Cityscape Sunset – Tiny Code Video Lesson

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