The Mysterious Fu Manchu Mysteries (1923) were a series of silent shorts based on the Sax Rohmer-penned novels featuring the mystery man of the show’s title, starring Harry Agar Lyons as Fu Manchu, Joan Clarkson as Karamenah, Fred Paul as Nayland Smith, Humberston Wright as Dr. Petrie, and Julie Sudo as Zarmi.
In this episode, Nayland Smith and Dr. Petrie ruminate upon the nature of pipes…
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Notes:
1. I made this on October 1st, 2023
__________The Mysterious Fu Manchu Mysteries (1923) were a series of silent shorts based on the Sax Rohmer-penned novels featuring the mystery man of the show’s title, starring Harry Agar Lyons as Fu Manchu, Joan Clarkson as Karamenah, Fred Paul as Nayland Smith, Humberston Wright as Dr. Petrie, and Julie Sudo as Zarmi.
In this episode, a somewhat despondent Petrie is taken to see the beautiful but mysterious Zarmi, who is reputed to be the most charming woman in the whole of London…
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Notes:
1. I made this on September 30th, 2023
2. Once again from the bones of The Mystery Of Fu Manchu
The Mysterious Fu Manchu Mysteries (1923) were a series of silent shorts based on the Sax Rohmer-penned novels featuring the mystery man of the show’s title, starring Harry Agar Lyons as Fu Manchu, Joan Clarkson as Karamenah, Fred Paul as Nayland Smith, Humberston Wright as Dr. Petrie, and Julie Sudo as Zarmi.
In this first episode, Karamaneh meets with Petrie and Nayland and has a strange request…
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Notes:
1. I made this on October 3rd, 2023
2. Using edits from The Mystery Of Fu Manchu
A simple toy that creates hybrid animals by swapping their heads and bodies around, Brids, Sfish, and Other Amals was made using twine, with public domain nature illustrations largely collected from the wonderful old book illustrations website.
You can use it here and/or here if you want, and make various creatures like those below.
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Notes:
1. I made this between late August and early October, 2023
2. It was originally intended to be actual printed cards, for my nieces/nephews
3. But the logistics of actually printing cards put paid to that idea
4. I’m afraid
Gridflip is an ultra simple puzzle game where you have to flip the grid of blocks from white to black. Contains 3 mildly different game modes, plus high scores and saves. You can play/download on itch.io, or play it straight away in your browser here.
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Notes:
1. Made between September 10th and September 15th, 2023
2. Using twine again
3. Even though it would probably make more sense to have made this in basically anything else.