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After learning from @jimmunroe.net at last night's Video Game Arts Appreciation Night that its brutalist architecture was the inspiration for the level design in @metanetsoftware.com's game "n", I can't look at Robarts Library / "Fort Book" the same way…

24/10/26, 9:08 pm10 reposts50 likes

Jim Munroe

@jimmunroe.net

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Some more details in this ancient doc: archive.org/details/Free... Apparently I have been spreading the word of N for more than 20 years now?

archive.orgFreeware RebellionThe creators of the great freeware game N talk about the joys and challenges of being indie game developers.

Raigan Burns

@raiganburns.bsky.social

"Fort Book" is hilarious, I hadn't heard that before. :) I can't recommend this book enough, it gets into the history of why Toronto has so much concrete (also, cool pics) chbooks.com/Books/C/Conc... "Tadao Ando: The Colours of Light" was another big inspiration IIRC (and, another cool book). ;)

chbooks.comConcrete TorontoToronto is a concrete city. From international landmarks to civic buildings to cultural institutions to metropolitan infrastructure and the single-family home, reminders of the era of 'brutalist' arch...