Freedom

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🌀🐥 TODEPOND TIMES 🐥🌀

What's new this week?

Cross Post

The next video is NEARLY FINISHED! This week I've been making some of the final transitions for it. It's been taking a long time, but I really like how they look - so hopefully it's worth it!

Each transition features some spirally visuals (what a surprise...) as well as some fake social media posts. Hopefully this will make more sense when the video comes out... I'm really looking forward to releasing it! Not long now! Hang in there!

Free Will

When the next video releases, I'll open up the next video vote. As a patron, you'll get to decide what video I make. The NEXT video is already decided (📺 Screens in Screens in Screens), so the vote is for the one after that.

I've been planning lots of potential videos for this vote. One of these potential videos is... 💡 Free Will, which would be a sequel to the 🌀 Time Travel video.

The time-travel engine works because it's deterministic: It can predict exactly what each frog will be doing 5 seconds in the future. But what if... the frogs were impossible to predict? What if they had free will? Can we still make them travel through time?

There are a few challenges to overcome here... Firstly - how do we give the frogs free will? After doing that, how do we let them time-travel? Maybe we can't, but we can give it a good try! (I have some things up my sleeve)

Choices

Here are some of the other videos I'm planning:

📰 Update Update
Back to the SandPond Saga roots!!! Let's finally update the sand in SandPond. Specifically, let's update the way that sand atoms gets updated. It's an 'update update'! But be careful... small updates to update might cause catastrophic consequences. Don't go breaking sand!

🐿️ Tode
What is a tode? What makes a tode?
You can build your own! (using the tode-maker)

🐦 Perfect Programming Language
Berd has an amazing new idea for the PERFECT programming language, and they want to share it with you. It's a non-serious 'joke' programming language, but we'll make some real programs with it! Thanks berd <3

Unblocked

I've been making ANOTHER video this week too - it's a short teaser for something I've been working on with Max Bittker.

We've been making a new tool that lets you change and create elements in Sandspiel. It uses Blockly, which is a library for building block-based programming languages. Hopefully, it'll be beginner-friendly, but also powerful enough to appeal to more confident coders.

I'm looking forward to introducing people to it soon! 

So... next week looks like a bumper week... Hopefully there'll be a new SandPond Saga video...  AND a Sandspiel teaser. Unless I'm late... like usual :)

Thank you so much for your continued support, and being a part of this process! I appreciate every month that you're with me here on patreon, and I hope you're looking forward to what's to come!

Days since tode went missing: 63