{"id":5489,"date":"2023-12-19T17:44:08","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T17:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/?p=5489"},"modified":"2023-12-19T17:49:39","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T17:49:39","slug":"the-infinite-8-bit-computer-game-character-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/2023\/12\/19\/the-infinite-8-bit-computer-game-character-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"The Infinite 8-Bit Computer Game Character Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/8bitcover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/8bitcover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/8bitcover.jpg 630w, https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/8bitcover-300x238.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Infinite 8-Bit Computer Game Character Archive<\/em> (available <a href=\"https:\/\/dngdng.itch.io\/the-infinite-8-bit-computer-game-character-archive\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/twine\/8bit\/infinite8bit.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>) generates character histories for an infinite amount of imaginary 8-Bit computer game characters from an infinite amount of imaginary 8-Bit computer games.<\/p>\n<p>__________<\/p>\n<p>Notes:<\/p>\n<p>1. <em>Made on the 18th and 19th December, 2023<\/em><\/p>\n<p>2. <em>I decided to make this when I started playing Earthbound the other day, and liking the bit at the start where you can have it randomly choose names for all your characters if you can&#8217;t be bothered to name them yourself.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>3. <em>I made the sprites in Pulp, the Playdate game maker machine, largely because I couldn&#8217;t actually find any straight pixel art editor that worked properly. Anyway, that&#8217;s why these are all tiny little 8&#215;8 monochrome animations rather than anything more lavish and\/or system accurate.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>4. <em>The list of originating systems was aided by the use of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_home_computers\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this marvellous wikipedia page<\/a>. I hope they&#8217;re all genuine, but who can ever truly know. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>5. <em>Also merry christmas everyone, in case I forget to say next week when it&#8217;s actually christmas.<\/em><\/p>\n__________<\/br><h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/davidguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Support An Accumulation Of Things<\/a><\/h3><i>If you like the things you've read here please consider subscribing to my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/davidguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">patreon<\/a> or my <a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/davidnguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ko-fi<\/a>. <\/br><\/br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/davidguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Patreon subscribers<\/a> get not just early access to content and also the occasional gift, but also my eternal gratitude. Which I'm not sure is very useful, but is certainly very real.<\/br><\/br>(<a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/davidnguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ko-fi contributors<\/a> probably only get the gratitude I'm afraid, but please get in touch if you want more). <\/br><\/br>Thank you!<\/i><\/br><\/br>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Infinite 8-Bit Computer Game Character Archive (available here and here) generates character histories for an infinite amount of imaginary 8-Bit computer game characters from an infinite amount of imaginary 8-Bit computer games. __________ Notes: 1. Made on the 18th and 19th December, 2023 2. I decided to make this when I started playing Earthbound [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[834,116],"tags":[1536,1488,1481,1492,1277],"class_list":["post-5489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-an-abundance-of-adventures","category-ephemera","tag-8-bit","tag-generators","tag-itch-io","tag-randomisers","tag-twine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5489"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5492,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5489\/revisions\/5492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}