Electron Dance

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Words on videogames. Video essays on videogames. Ex-Thinky Games streamer-in-residence. A place - www.electrondance.com

The library with the "Trippy" color grade set turns the scene into a heat map with all of the colours of the rainbow exploding your eyes to shit.
Daemon saying "OMG RIP NFT LOL"
"Let none but Geometry pass through this door" is written into the ground below where a door should be. We're actually looking into a classroom and a huge face - a teacher - overlooks the Daemon "kids".
It's almost impossible to describe what I'm seeing here because it's all garish colours and polygonesque shapes. There are there coloured lines (pink, yellow, cyan) that wind their way through the environment on the left but the rest of it is platforms and walls and a tower (that is largely pink). Shapes that resemble trees dot the landscape. There's a small pyramid wireframe structure on one platform. The sky is blueish.
Title screen leading with the graphic of a yellow line forking inside a white box. Under the title graphic is the word "BIVIUM". Below that it reads AN ELECTRONDANCE GAME INSPIRED BY BLUE PRINCE. Further below are the options to "Begin" and "Load Saved Game".
AI-anime ad for a fitness app showing the app in the centre and a buff guy on the right with a red arrow pointing from the guy into the app On the other side of the app to the left is someone who is clearly not buff and has plasters on their face.
Öoo level where our little cute caterpillar has to across a platform above some spikes and then up through another platform at the top left. I considered this level just impossible until I solved it.
Part of the in-game map from Öoo, there are magenta, cyan and green trails of rooms.
Wall Street Raider: It's like Bloomberg Terminal: The Game. The screen is full of stocks and prices and little coloured graphs. Look closely and you can see buy and sell buttons.
Motorslice: A woman with blue hair, sporting an orange top and orange puffy trousers, holds a chainsaw while facing off against an enormous truck which is bigger than a four storey building.
Backtrace: This looks just like the original Apple Mac desktop; all monochrome, pixelated graphics. One window called HELLO_WORLD, contains a waveform puzzle with a code size challenge and a step count challenge. Behind is a FILE SYSTEM window containing various options and a progress meter.
Algolemeth: Dungeon Master vibe, with four characters lsited across the bottom with stats, a main 3D view showing some creatures encountered and a minimap of the left. Everything is in black and white.
A coin with the legend "LEARNED PEOPLE CAST GREAT SHADOWS" around it's edge. In the centre is the fork used by the guy in Stephen's Sausage Roll.
Fragment of text: --always coming. They were always going to find an-- COULD LOOK LIKE THE GAME IS ENDORSING VIOLENCE. --we should not have killed some innocents on the--
a permanent echo: The display looks like a collage of shapes, punctuated with vibrant colour. Images and text suggest you are watching some courtroom scene through a networked interface of some kind. There are heavy-looking robot figures flanking the main characters in the scene.
Relooted. Cross-section of a building, revealing various rooms of a high-class apartment. There is a list of instructions on the top left such as "Collect: Vigango Statues".
Dap. A forest of some kind, in the rain. There are giant flowers which seem to have opened on the floor of the forest, emitting some white particles. White figures, reminiscent of the forest spirits in Princess Mononoke, congregate around a campfire. Look more closely and many of the features seem composed of a looping lines and not solid regions of colour.
Sol Cesto: In the centre of the screen there is a bucket, with the number 801 on the side, hanging in a shaft. A hand reaches up towards a handle beside the bucket. There are a lot of icons on both sides of the screen which I'm not going to ALT TEXT except for the teeth. You can replace your teeth for upgraded teeth.
1 Billion Spells: A visual of something that looks like a circuit or a tech tree with numerous coloured icons are connected on a path. It appears to overlay a map of some kind.
An abandoned shop with a couple of pawns in the window
Two pages of Final Cut by Charles Burns. On the left page is a variety of drawings by one of the characters in the story and on the right a woman and a man discuss them.
A passage from a Twine editor with the name "Candy-Finale". There is one arrow leading into and two leading out.
A puzzle from A LITTLE PERSPECTIVE with cyan blocks forming a grid for our cheeky Red Cube Protagonist to solve puzzles. There is a deep blue block near the bottom left, which is basically a shuttle. There are also some purple blocks which have the numbers 0 and 1 on, these are step counters, and I am not sure I like step counters, friends.
Old magazine advert for Contac which is an cold medicine that contains lots of tiny beads which they call "time pills"
Dave's Word Game leaderboard showing MAUEFW with 327 points, VEDABROWN with 268 points and good old Electron Dance hanging in there with 267.
Grid of letters where the word WINNOWED is highlighted
A grid of letters from Dave's Word Game
Dave's Word Game leaderboard showing the top score is 218 which is equivalent to two cleared boards
Dave's Word Game leaderboard showing three people with scores above 200 but Electrondance languishes on 194.
Leaderboard showing Electrondance has now increased their score to 194 which is clearly not 200. It is also one point below second place.
Leaderboard showing HEZ147 on a titan score of 239 at the top for a particularly difficult board, at least to me, right
Leaderboard for Dave's Word Game showing the top score to be 195 and your good buddy Electrondance has 156.
A lit tunnel with no exit apart from a darkened archway at the gate end
Once the axel disappeared, Malinin had to chase points rather than control the program. After briefly recovering with a quad lutz for another massive score, a planned quad loop became a double, cutting roughly 10 points from its expected scoring range. Then came the first fall on the opening leg of a planned quad lutz-single euler-triple flip in combination, normally one of his highest-scoring elements. Instead of scoring in the mid-teens, the quad lutz barely cleared three points after deductions.
"I loved a Glory girl once," she says. "She had ears you could nibble. And she talked always about the three finger signs – you saw it, right? - but she was not sure if made by Spiriters, Lions or some other people. Like what does this mean? I think she knew. She did not tell me those things. "She is dead, of course."
A Curator in Slice & Dice who has Rampage with Steel and Self-Shield bonuses.
A screenshot showing the text: THE END Start Again
A screenshot showing the options 'Begin' and 'Load Saved Game'
ROUTINE: First-person perspective in a gloomy environment. The silhouette of a robot is in front of the player, who holes up astronaut-gloved hands, gripping some device, which has a display showing the robot ahead of us. There is a suggestion of threat.
OEUF: A speckled egg sits high above a valley of some sort, beside a tree. Aside from the egg, A aesthetic is very Minecraft. It is raining.
CADENCE: A puzzle game of some sort. Isometric view of a puzzle involving isometric tiles. Some are grey, some are teal and others are tan-coloured. There are chevrons rippling across many of the grey tiles, but others have yellow lines instead. A cat sleeps on one tile to the far right.
9 KINGS: Isometric view, pixel-aesthetic citybuilder game. Several buildings and fields have been built on green, grassy land, peppered with fir trees. It is Year 31. There are three cards at the bottom, labelled Midas Touch, Archer and Soldier.
Computer display which reads: ROLES. Designate one player as the RELAY and another player as the RUNNER. The RUNNER will explore the external environment for identification codes. The RELAY will enter these codes into the test program and confirm to the runner whether the input has been successful. Please assign the roles and then continue to the test.
Electrondance at 166 points VFIG on 165
Leaderboard showing ELECTRNDANCE in second place with 200 points.
A grid of letters
Leaderboard showing 'ELECTRNDANCE' in second position at 200 points.
A grid of letters.
A monitor showing a Twine application. There are almost daily copies of a story called The Secret. It is currently 255 passages in size.
Grid of letters which has been reassembled into the word "FESTERS". This will clear the board when selected. There are seven words left to go and 18 points scored so far.
A grid of letters where many of the letters are horrors such as W, Y and J. Make a high scoring word out of this, you absolute ass, says the game.
A blue sky over a grey river. A church reaches in from the left. A hill haunts the background in the right. Wales 2025.
Panel from Watchmen graphic novel where Ozymandius says: "Do it?" "Dan, I'm not a republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my masterstroke if there remained the slightest chance of you effecting it's outcome?" "I released the budget thirty five minutes ago." Ozymandius has OBR written on his chest.
A largely blurred out changelog for a game. 15/11/25: The tray: separators are not quite symmetrical somehow The tray: slightly wider than the standard twine view – when it appears at the end of exodus-f it slightly tw 17/11/25: Music & Sound FX instead of audio C5: sara doesn’t introduce her name for all gretings AV must involve “climbing up” onto motorway William is driving a van. 18/11/25: EXODUS title screen
A grid with rails across it, upon which is a short one-carriage train whose engine resembles a skull. There are three graves, two coffins while two zombies are waiting to be picked up.
An empty grid which has a short one-carriage train whose engine resembles a skull waiting on its border. There is one grave, plus a zombie and a small boy are waiting to be picked up.
A grid with rails across it, upon which is a short one-carriage train whose engine resembles a skull. There are two coffins, two vampires and a small boy waiting to be picked up.
A grid with rails across it, upon which is a short one-carriage train whose engine resembles a skull. There are four graves, a zombie and a small boy waiting to be picked up.